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No Enemies Within: A Creative Process for Discovering What's Right About What's Wrong

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Reading this book was like spending time with the best counselor I've ever found. It's compassionate and real and incredibly supportive. I read it during a break up last year, and it really helped me focus on myself and heal. The main point of the book is that all the thoughts and feelings that you have are valuable and are trying to tell you something. The author beautifully guides you through many different ways to make space for your own pain, joy and healing. An absolutely incredible book! I highly recommmend it!

Picking up this book and reading the intro story, I knew this would be a book of learning to know myself. Not only that, but to learn to love those parts of me that I didn't like, fought against and also tried to deny. There was something new here. To learn to love ALL parts of myself, even the ugly ones. Not only that, but to understand those parts & what made them & why they were there in the first place. And in learning to love and understand those parts, they would become part of my whole self, and thus no longer something to hate, fear or waste energy over. Another bonus is to find out one's "function pattern". This has helped me to understand myself more than alot of other ideas out there; and also to understand those around me better. When you stop and think about it. love is all there is.

One of the 2/3 best books I've ever read. Was very helpful & very comforting to me, especially in times of stress. I read it about 5 times over. Helped put some perspective on relationships, spirituality, pain & health. Also a stimulating, interesting read. Well done Dawna Markova.

I read about 30 books a year and this book is about the best I have ever read. It is so powerful, gentle and loving. The writing style is so brilliant that she could be a best selling novelist. But this book is not a novel - it is about examining what is wrong with you and then encouraging you embrace it and heal rather than fear it. This is done with so much love that you feel that Dawna is there with you at all times. I have read the book many times and each time cried with sorrow and joy. Thank you Dawna - I can never repay your gift.

I agree with all of the previous reviews on the comforting writing style. This is unexpected considering Dr. Markova's background. However, I think (notice I wrote "think") the real strength of this book is in how it uses visual-auditory-kinesthetic learning theory to help you create an individual means of embracing and solving challenges. She seems to be gently saying, "I am so sorry this happened to you. How can we use it to make your life better?" If you are not a natural visualizer, you really need this book. I also found the quotes insightful and new - not the same old stuff. This is a really

"My grandmother called a person's spiritual path in this life 'traveling on the wisdom trail.' She said it was a spiral, bringing us closer to the truth at our core each pass round. What this means is that we keep coming to the same places, intersections, and struggles over and over again, only each time we've expanded out, collecting more wisdom. Wherever you go on a spiral, there is no escaping from yourself...There's no way to complete a journey on the wisdom trail, since it is a spiral of learning, healing, serving, learning." ~Dawna Markova

No Enemies Within, by Dawna Markova, is a wealth of wisdom. Markova provides a friendly, readable yet profound prescription for healing through creativity, for becoming whole by "discovering what's right about what's wrong."

The author describes the landmarks in our spiritual journeys: the enemies within, living disconnected, the turning points in which we reconnect with our lost selves, opening our hearts with acceptance, and using our imaginations and intuition to recreate our lives and make use of our own resources, so that we may ultimately serve and help others in community. Sam Keen said, "The word hero needs to be reserved for the man or woman who is willing to take the solitary journey to the depths of the self, to re-own the shadow, to exorcise the ancient warrior psyche, to discover the power and authority of wholeness."

This book is rich in depth and insight, formed by a highly educated author who has lived what she writes about. I consider it a book I will refer to again and again in the years ahead, gaining fresh insight each time.