Seeing Your Life Through New Eyes

Paul Brenner, Donna Martin

Council Oak Books, 2004 - Family & Relationships - 174 pages

Seeing Your Life Through New Eyes identifies the origin of your personal profile and points you in directions to maximize your potential and transcend self-imposed limitations. This workbook format helps readers create a diary of self-discovery and assists in resolving any misunderstood relationships and addictive behavior. This book offers insights for replacing negative thoughts by revealing the source of their origin and suggests tools for reflection, insight, and change. Utilizing the process Family Triangles, which is based on the relationship of the parental hurts or gifts of childhood, specifically from the age of two to twelve, and how these experiences combine with inherent temperament to shape your adult life, Seeing Your Life Through New Eyes revisits your past and offers new perspectives from a different focal length without filters.

Contents

• Family Triangles: 1
• Gift: 9
• YOUR GIFTS: 14
• HOW WE LOVE AND FEEL LOVED: 19
• BLAME: 20
• PARALYSIS: 23
• VALUES: 27
• THE SHADOW: 29
• Summary: 39
• Hurts: 41
• PEOPLE SKILLS: 46
• GUILT: 47
• VOCATION: 52
• THE REAL PAIN OF CHILDHOOD HURTS: 56
• INTERNALIZED PARENTS: 60
• THE GIFT IN THE HURT: 62
• VICTIMIZATION: 70
• HEALING OUR UNMET NEEDS: 71
• YOUR CHILDREN: 73
• Summary: 74
• From Relationship to Partnership: 77
• DISTRUST FROM THE GIFT AND THE HURT: 98
• BONDING: 103
• Summary: 105
• Pain Fear and Coping: 107
• COPING SKILLS: 112
• WHEN OTHERS DONT TRUST YOU: 120
• YOUR SELFPORTRAIT: 122
• THE SHADOW OF YOUR SELFPORTRAIT: 124
• ADDICTION: 125
• ADDICTION TO YOUR SELFPORTRAIT: 126
• WHEN YOUR SELFPORTRAIT BREAKS DOWN: 130
• ILLNESS: 134
• Summary: 138
• Our Calling: 141
• TWELVE KEYS TO SEEING LIFE THROUGH NEW EYES: 145
• THE QUEST: 150
• Appendix: 153
• TRIANGLES SUMMARY: 155
• About the Authors: 157
• References: 163
• Index: 171

Bibliographic information

• Title: Seeing Your Life Through New Eyes
• Authors: Paul Brenner, Donna Martin
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Council Oak Books, 2004
• ISBN: 1571781641, 9781571781642
• Length: 174 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth; Family & Relationships / Dysfunctional Families; Family & Relationships / General; Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Psychology / Interpersonal Relations; Self-Help / General; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General