University Press of America
Pages: 136
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Trim: 6 x 8 3/4
978-0-7618-6294-9 • Paperback • January 2014 • $30.99 • (£21.95)
978-0-7618-6295-6 • eBook • January 2014 • $29.00 • (£19.95)
Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth,
Body, Mind & Spirit / Healing / Energy (Chi Kung, Reiki, Polarity),
Self-Help / Mood Disorders / Depression,
Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational,
Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness,
Psychology / Motivation,
Psychology / Sensation/Perception,
Psychology / Psychology of Women
Alyson Quinn was born in Zimbabwe to Irish parents and spent her childhood years in Southern Africa. She trained as a social worker in South Africa and then launched her career in London, England. She has spent over two decades on the West coast of Canada in the field of psychiatry as an individual and group therapist. In the last six years, she has dedicated much of her time to writing novels and nonfiction books.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1. A Conversation with Our Feelings
2. Cultural Traps That Can Suppress and Numb Our Feelings
3. Vignettes on Feelings
4. Vignettes on Patterns
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Alyson Quinn is what I call a life coach. Her book is an easy to read, excellent guide through the difficulties [we experience] on our journey through life. . . . Read, learn, and make your journey through life a more meaningful and pleasant experience.
— Bernie Siegel, MD, author of A Book of Miracles and Faith: Hope and Healing
This is a book steeped in the wisdom of a seasoned clinician. . . . Alyson provides deep yet immediately accessible meditations on our emotions, what keeps us from them, and how we can reconnect with them.
— Geoff Michell, MA, psychotherapist
As a social worker and clinical therapist with thirty years’ experience, I found Reclaim Your Soul: Your Path to Healing a ‘must read’ for everyone. Ms. Quinn’s skills at expressing the emotional ills of our modern Western culture makes the reader explore his/her own life. The pathway to self-actualization makes us face ourselves in a heightened and new way. . . . Her book comes at an opportune time for all of us to sit up, take notice, become self-aware, and make some changes to become whole again.
— Illa Gibson, MSW, CCR