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When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom by Rosalyn Rourke
Narrator: Rosalyn Rourke
Rosalyn Rourke's When Wisdom Arrives, is a deeply moving and beautifully illustrated fable that offers a thoughtful solution to those who've been weighed down by constant feelings of unworthiness and self-doubt. Because the author who's experienced the same feelings and thoughts represented by each of her characters, we come away with the conviction that we too can attain the same breakthroughs that the main character Gem achieved. And thus, we can find our own Truth and a new sense of self-worth to Freedom from psychological and emotional oppression.
- Amazon Customer, 5 star review |
ABOUT THE BOOK
If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts. In the pages of this fable and companion memoir, we learn about truth and the simple way we can transcend the lie of unworthiness. Imagined unworthiness shows up as a tyranny of thoughts and feelings that cause psychological suffering.
Eleven-year-old Gem struggles with looping thoughts and feelings of self-hate because of her body weight. She believes she is unworthy of love. A wise woman comes into young Gem’s life and demonstrates that her looping, hurtful, repetitive thoughts are untrue. When Gem moves her attention away from her habitual looping patterns, she finds her true ‘I,’ a deeper part of herself that is free. The true ‘I’ is not tied to thoughts and feelings, or the past or future. It is a presence that is available in each person.
Rosalyn Rourke has been all three characters in the fable and all three in the memoir companion: the judgmental mother, the hurt daughter and the wise woman. Even with a successful, decades-long psychotherapy practice and credentials as an eating disorder expert and trauma specialist, Rosalyn struggled with worry and judgment about her daughter, Melissa’s, weight. The same protocol Gem discovers in the fable helped Rosalyn transcend compulsive worry and judgment about Melissa’s weight and later helped her transmute grief after Melissa’s unexpected death. When Wisdom Arrives in our lives, we discover how imagined unworthiness can transform into the knowledge of what we are in truth.
If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts. In the pages of this fable and companion memoir, we learn about truth and the simple way we can transcend the lie of unworthiness. Imagined unworthiness shows up as a tyranny of thoughts and feelings that cause psychological suffering.
Eleven-year-old Gem struggles with looping thoughts and feelings of self-hate because of her body weight. She believes she is unworthy of love. A wise woman comes into young Gem’s life and demonstrates that her looping, hurtful, repetitive thoughts are untrue. When Gem moves her attention away from her habitual looping patterns, she finds her true ‘I,’ a deeper part of herself that is free. The true ‘I’ is not tied to thoughts and feelings, or the past or future. It is a presence that is available in each person.
Rosalyn Rourke has been all three characters in the fable and all three in the memoir companion: the judgmental mother, the hurt daughter and the wise woman. Even with a successful, decades-long psychotherapy practice and credentials as an eating disorder expert and trauma specialist, Rosalyn struggled with worry and judgment about her daughter, Melissa’s, weight. The same protocol Gem discovers in the fable helped Rosalyn transcend compulsive worry and judgment about Melissa’s weight and later helped her transmute grief after Melissa’s unexpected death. When Wisdom Arrives in our lives, we discover how imagined unworthiness can transform into the knowledge of what we are in truth.
ROSALYN ROURKE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I am a Best Selling author with my first book “When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom."
After 30 years as an MSW Psychotherapist, I now work as a Oneness Coach. I am passionate about empowering and inspiring people on their path to self-discovery and freedom.
When I made the Audible for Wisdom, it was transporting for me, because it brought the book to life in my own voice. This book is truly a legacy for me and my daughter Melissa, who passed away unexpectedly.
Now, I am overjoyed to share that I am a 2x Best Selling author with my chapter, "Quantum Belonging: Embracing Life Beyond Limitations" in the book, "Become Empowered: Echoes of Grace and Strength" (Curated by Sabine Kvenberg.)
Website:
https://rosalynrourke.com/
I am a Best Selling author with my first book “When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom."
After 30 years as an MSW Psychotherapist, I now work as a Oneness Coach. I am passionate about empowering and inspiring people on their path to self-discovery and freedom.
When I made the Audible for Wisdom, it was transporting for me, because it brought the book to life in my own voice. This book is truly a legacy for me and my daughter Melissa, who passed away unexpectedly.
Now, I am overjoyed to share that I am a 2x Best Selling author with my chapter, "Quantum Belonging: Embracing Life Beyond Limitations" in the book, "Become Empowered: Echoes of Grace and Strength" (Curated by Sabine Kvenberg.)
Website:
https://rosalynrourke.com/
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