Hidden Treasure: How to Break Free of Five Patterns that Hide Your True Self

2018 Readers' Favorites Book Awards Bronze Medal in Non-Fiction—Motivational National Indie Excellence Awards Winner - Personal Growth Body, Mind and Spirit Awards Finalist - Spiritual Psychology and Self-help categories Are you looking for more personal growth or feel like you want something more from life, but you’re not sure where to start? In this award-winning book, author Alice McDowell, PhD, reveals how powerful, deeply embedded behavior patterns—often the result of wounds suffered early in life—can influence every aspect of your life and identity, and hide your true self. Hidden Treasure offers tools you will use again and again to help soften and heal these patterns, make sense of your life and relationships, and begin to live a full and radiant life.

Alice McDowell, PhD is a counselor in private practice, retreat guide, and cofounder of Light on the Hill Retreat Center, as well as the founder of the Hidden Treasure program—a three-year training in personal and spiritual growth. A professor of religious studies at Ithaca College for eighteen years, she now facilitates groups devoted to inner work. McDowell has trained with healers, humanist and transpersonal psychologists, Sufi and Buddhist teachers, and Christian contemplatives, and has guided people in their personal and spiritual journeys for over thirty years. She draws upon her diverse training and life experience to help others awaken to their true selves, their divinity within.