How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual IntegrationPaulist Press, 1991 - 121 pages Living life as a happy, mature adult does not always come easily to all of us. In this best-selling work, David Richo conveys to his readers just how to do this, based on his many years' experience as a psychotherapist and workshop leader. The author uses as a model the heroic journey whose three phases--departure, struggle, and return--explain what happens in us as we evolve from neurotic ego through healthy ego to the spiritual Self. Departure is explored by helping the reader deal with fear, anger, and guilt, and building self-esteem. Through struggle one learns to maintain boundaries and build intimacy in relationships. And the result is a return to wholeness and love through integration. This thoughtful, approachable work is filled with checklists, diagrams, and literary quotations for meditation, making this a book to read and digest a little at a time for best results. How to Be an Adult will guide readers on their positive journey from fear, through power, to love. + |
Contents
GROWING PAINS GROWING UP | 11 |
ASSERTIVENESS SKILLS | 22 |
FEAR CHALLENGE TO ADULTHOOD I | 30 |
ANGER CHALLENGE TO ADULTHOOD II | 36 |
GUILT CHALLENGE TO ADULTHOOD III | 43 |
VALUES AND SELFESTEEM | 48 |
DECLARATIONS OF A HEALTHY ADULTHOOD | 51 |
Relationship Issues | 55 |
ADULT LIVING IN RELATIONSHIPS | 83 |
Integration | 87 |
THE ART OF FLEXIBLE INTEGRATION | 89 |
BEFRIENDING THE SHADOW | 93 |
DREAMS AND DESTINY SEEING IN THE DARK | 98 |
EGOSELF AXIS WHERE PSYCHOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY MEET | 105 |
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE | 110 |
AFFIRMATIONS | 114 |
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abandonment abuse accept acknowledge Active Imagination addiction adult affirmation afraid Alice Miller allow amends anger appropriate guilt assertiveness become behavior beliefs betrayal blame CHALLENGE TO ADULTHOOD childhood choices choose coexist commitment compassion consciously D.W. Winnicott drama dreams dreamwork drop Emily Dickinson engulfment everything experience express fear functional ego Gestalt Therapy give grief griefwork grieving happens healing healthy ego higher consciousness honor human hurt identity inner integrity intimacy intuitions Joseph Campbell Jung leads let go live loss means Meister Eckhart ment Mourning negative excitement ness neurotic ego neurotic guilt never notice ourselves pain parents partner past Paul Tillich personal boundaries present Psychological and spiritual Ralph Waldo Emerson reality receive rejection relationship release scared self-actualization self-disclosure self-esteem sense simply someone struggle SUMMARY REFLECTIONS take responsibility tell things transformation trust truth uncon unconditional love unconditionally unconscious values William Blake York
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Page 8 - The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Page 1 - The two — the hero and his ultimate god, the seeker and the found — are thus understood as the outside and inside of a single, selfmirrored mystery, which is identical with the mystery of the manifest world...
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