The Gifts that Lie Hidden within Difficult Emotions (Part 3): Feeling Lack and Not Enough

• Do you struggle with a nagging feeling of not being enough?
• Or that you don't have enough, whether of money, time, friends, and so on?
• Do you find that your life feels small or meager or lacking in some way?
• Would you like to experience greater richness and abundance in your life?

In this book, you will discover how you can work with your feelings of lack and not enough, and how you can turn them around to your benefit. Habitual mental/emotional patterns such as defensiveness, low self-esteem, and fear of failure, which can bring about great distress for ourselves and others are also addressed. This is a book on how you can get to the heart of these challenging emotion states to find their intrinsic gifts.

Discover and uncover the hidden narrative within difficult mental and emotional states

In some self-help and meditation circles, it’s common to hear the refrain, “Just sit with your feelings.” What’s often left unsaid is how each emotion has its own signature movement or “story to tell.” In other words, sitting with confusion is different from sitting with anger, which is different from sitting with loneliness, and so on. Not only does each emotion have its own distinct narrative and manner of unraveling, but each has its own unique gift to impart to those who are patient enough to sit through the unfolding.

In each of these short books, I focus in on a specific emotional and mental state and present a map of the terrain you’ll likely traverse when you eventually do sit with and process that particular emotion at hand.

My hope is that you’ll find inspiration and value to sit with and to digest—that is, to “eat”—these difficult emotional and mental states as they arise and offer their hidden and sometimes surprising gifts.