Be Full of Yourself! dismantles the self-critical question "what's wrong with me" by exploring its historical, theological, and personal origins. The reader is invited to descend into the richness of her own life, to reclaim her inner resources, and to learn the language of self-celebration.
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In Be Full of Yourself!, Patricia Lynn Reilly has raised her voice in strength and clarity to remind us that women are not "misbegotten males." Internalized self-criticism and "not enoughism" must melt before Patricia's clear, brave words. As a therapist, I applaud her model of psychological wholeness grounded in self-celebration. -- Kate Wolf-Pizor, MFT
In Reviving Ophelia Mary Pipher recommends that girls and young women explore the culture's impact on their growth and development. For those of us who are parents, teachers, and counselors, Be Full of Yourself! provides an effective and practical format for such "consciousness raising." Patricia Lynn Reilly supports women of all ages to relinquish self-criticism and to reclaim self-celebration. -- Barbara Loften, Author of Personalizing the Past: Artifact History and Herstory Kits
Thanks to Patricia Lynn Reilly's new book Be Full of Yourself! we remember a time when we were full of ourselves and we knew that with our bare chests and eyelet panties we could be as bold and as beautiful as we dared. Patricia's book reminded me that I was once full of myself. I am now opening to the possibility of that fullness returning. -- Isie Hanson, Editor of The Dream Seed
In Reviving Ophelia Mary Pipher recommends that girls and young women explore the culture's impact on their growth and development. For those of us who are parents, teachers, and counselors, Be Full of Yourself! provides an effective and practical format for such "consciousness raising." Patricia Lynn Reilly supports women of all ages to relinquish self-criticism and to reclaim self-celebration. -- Barbara Loften, Author of Personalizing the Past: Artifact History and Herstory Kits
Thanks to Patricia Lynn Reilly's new book Be Full of Yourself! we remember a time when we were full of ourselves and we knew that with our bare chests and eyelet panties we could be as bold and as beautiful as we dared. Patricia's book reminded me that I was once full of myself. I am now opening to the possibility of that fullness returning. -- Isie Hanson, Editor of The Dream Seed
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Does the question "what's wrong with me" regularly punctuate your life as you search far and wide for someone to give you an answer or to offer you a magical insight, treatment, or cure? Is your automatic tendency to feel inadequate, that you're never quite good enough no matter what you do? Are you tired of second-guessing your impulses, pathologizing your decisions, theorizing about your feelings, and processing every detail of your relationships?
Imagine sitting in a circle of women who have ousted the question "what's wrong with me" from their hearts, minds, bodies, and lives. Women who trust their impulses, take responsibility for their decisions, express their feelings, participate in their relationships, and celebrate their stunning capacities as children of life. Women who give birth to poems of truth, rituals of healing, relationships of equality, and households of compassion. Women full of themselves!
Join Patricia Lynn Reilly and the fifty two contributors to Be Full of Yourself! on the journey from self-criticism to self-celebration. In the company of these women, explore the origins of your self-critical attitudes and dismantle them-once and for all. Descend into the richness of your own life and reclaim your inner resources. Learn the language of self-celebration and incorporate it into your daily interactions. Bite into your life and the fullness of its possibility!
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Reilly Celebrates Women,
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This review is from: Be Full of Yourself!: The Journey from Self-Criticism to Self-Celebration (Paperback)
In her second book Reilly effectively dismantles the question, "what's wrong with me." My twenty two year old daughter and I read through the book together. Reilly's words were as relevant for her as they were for me. She tells me that twenty-something women are as obsessed with self-criticism as are their mothers and grandmothers. Read the book with your friends, colleagues, and children. Encourage your husbands and male friends to read it. I'm sure many of them, like my husband, are puzzled by the tenacity of women's self-criticism. My husband was "enlightened" (he finally "GOT IT") by reading Reilly's exploration of the historical, theological, and personal origins of women's self-critical attitudes. Her "Language of Self-Celebration" chapter is a must!
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I love the cover...a perfect apple,
By Wm Michael Smith PhD (Longmont, Colorado) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Be Full of Yourself!: The Journey from Self-Criticism to Self-Celebration (Paperback)
This process of accepting myself as a women, fighting off all the constant cultural messages that "criticize" me for weight, wrinkles, being to bold, to thin skinned to much...were quieted by reading this book and gave me the chance to practice accepting myself as a whole women...great book, well written....confronting and challenging but worth it.
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Finally, permission to Be FULL of Myself!,
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This review is from: Be Full of Yourself!: The Journey from Self-Criticism to Self-Celebration (Paperback)
Another excellent work by Patricia Lynn Reilly!
As a child who often heard these very words... "Don't be so full of yourself"... I was drawn to the title, but even more drawn in by the refreshing spirituality and soul of this book! There's a suggested format for a study group if the reader is interested in sharing with other women these marvelous ideas. I especially appreciated the practical suggestions for "exorcising" the very harsh religious teachings from my childhood -- about the God who was nothing at all like the God I know today. In my opinion, this book is all about finding my own personal form of spirituality with a very comfortable, comforting, nurturing Creator.
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