The following books have been read by and are recommended by Paula as 'go to' books and guides for facilitation and self-help.
Attitudinal Healing and A Course In Miracles: Effortless Living by Els Thissen
Do you choose to be right or do you choose to be happy?
Your true nature is love, inner peace goes with it.
Attitudinal Healing works with 12 Principles that serve as reminders every moment of every day to choose inner peace instead of fear. Els explores important core concepts of Attitudinal Healing such as non-judgmental listening and sharing, trusting everyone to find their own answers, forgiveness and the willingness to see innocence in all relationships.
Els’s explanations of AH, along with each Principle and Guideline, are supported by thoughtful questions, exercises, and examples—all grounded in excerpts from A Course in Miracles and her extensive understanding of its teachings. By applying these ideas, we connect with a different attitude and approach life in a new way. That attitude is grounded in love and unity.
A Fierce Belief in Miracles: My Journey from Rape to Healing and Wholeness by Anne Reeder Heck
When faced with overwhelming hardship, what we believe makes all the difference.
At age twenty-six, Anne Reeder Heck was attacked by a stranger and brutally raped. Years later, still seeking to heal the remnants of this trauma, Anne stands alone in her living room one winter day and claims her desired belief aloud: “This is my year of strength.” Her clear intention results in a phone call; her rapist has been identified—fourteen years after the crime.
Offering all the gripping and uplifting details of a story that sparked national interest—Heck appeared on the front page of The Washington Post and was interviewed by Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America—A Fierce Belief in Miracles lights the way for those seeking to heal from life’s traumas by demonstrating the importance of clear intention and trusting inner guidance, and the transformative power of forgiveness.
Listen to Anne courageously share her journey from rape to healing and wholeness. This Ted Talk and Anne's book are beacons of hope for those who have been through trauma, and seeking healing, forgiveness, trust and transformation.
After more than thirty years, Love Is Letting of Fear continues to be among the most widely read and best-loved classics on personal transformation. Both helpful and hopeful, this little gem of a guide offers twelve lessons to help us let go of the past and stay focused on the present as we step confidently toward the future.
Renowned all over the world as the founder of Attitudinal Healing, Dr. Gerald Jampolsky reminds us that the impediments to the life we long for are nothing more than the limitations imposed on us by our own minds. Revealing our true selves, the essence of which is love, is ultimately a matter of releasing those limited--and limiting--thoughts and setting our minds free.
Love Is Letting of Fear has guided millions of readers along the path of self-healing with its deeply powerful yet profoundly humble message. Embrace it with an open mind and a willing heart and let it guide you to a life in which negativity, doubt, and fear are replaced with optimism, joy, and love.
Available from Amazon
By Jerry Jampolsky
A unique and easy-to-use guide that shows the power of forgiveness to transform your life and relationships.
Find out the power of forgiveness—what it can do for you, right now. This handsome little book moves through the elements that create true forgiveness. It is unique in that it is about practical spirituality and written in very simple, down-to-earth, easy-to-understand language. Forgiveness explains to readers why many find it so difficult to forgive and why they should forgive. The toxic, negative side effects of being unforgiving and the havoc it can play on the body is on one side of the coin; the physical and spiritual benefits of forgiving is the other. Readers of this book learn tips on how to choose the forgiving side, as well as the top twenty reasons why the path to forgiving has so many obstacles and how to remove those obstacles. It's time to choose forgiveness and take the steps to end the cycle of anger and finally quiet the mind.
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In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Separated from her parents on arrival, she endures unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. When the camp is finally liberated, she is pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive.
The horrors of the Holocaust didn't break Edith. In fact, they helped her learn to live again with a life-affirming strength and a truly remarkable resilience.
The Choice is her unforgettable story. It shows that hope can flower in the most unlikely places.