Self-Empowerment 101: Re-enchantment with our own capacity for empowering ourselves and others [Paperback]

Rosie Kuhn Ph.D (Author)

Book Description

Release date: February 11, 2008

An adventure into personal beliefs and strategies that limit your capacity for a full and magnificent life.

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About the Author

Rosie is a life and business coach and has been training life coaches for the past six years through the Transformational Coaching Training Program at The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She provides coaching to individuals, couples, groups and organizations, and supervises professional coaches and coaches-in-training. She has worked in the domain of of human development for more than 20 years, in the fields of addiction, marriage and family therapy, group process, spiritual guidance, and life coaching.

Product Details

• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (February 11, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419679120
• ISBN-13: 978-1419679124
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,570,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Originally from Detroit and a family of nine children, Dr. Rosie Kuhn is a personal and corporate coach. Her first book, Self-Empowerment 101, is a culmination of her work as a life coach, marriage and family therapist, spiritual guide and creator and facilitator of the Transformational Coaching Training at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She has worked in the field of human development for over 30 years. She is a keynote speaker and a guest on TV and radio shows around the country. Rosie also facilitates The Wonderful Women Retreats now held in Colorado, California and Washington.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Becoming Your Own Guru April 23, 2008

By A. M. Wa

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Dr. Kuhn's work is a revealing journey into the process of self-transformation from the point of view of a spiritual coach. Her stories about her client's lives, and particularly where they get "hung up" while attempting to change these lives, are so genuine that I felt I knew each and every one of them. And I saw pieces of myself in many of them.

The exercises she recommends are worth doing and taking your time over. In fact, I now see that I read the book too quickly. I plan to re-read it slowly, one chapter per week, so I can better absorb what Dr. Kuhn is teaching.

The author is not trying to be a guru - she is trying to make us become our own gurus. This makes the book far more valuable to me than so many of the spiritual books written by self-proclaimed Awakened Beings. At the end of the day, I have to be my own teacher, my own guru, my own authentic self. Though it is often tempting to abdicate that role, when all is said and done, no one can take it over for me. That's what Self-Empowerment really is.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be kept with your reference books as it is well-worth rereading/consulting throughout one's journey September 29, 2008

By V. Panagotacos

Format:Paperback

Self-Empowerment 101 is not a book to be read once and tossed. Put it on your bookcase and you will find your way back to it more than once.

Book is exceptionally user-friendly but don't be fooled, it is not elementary. Well-written in a style that makes the difficult task of understanding how "my way of being" contributes to how well my life is or isn't unfolding... much easier. The steady flow of well-timed questions allows the reader to gain traction and learn tools necessary to living a life of choice while negotiating occasional choppy water.

Recommend the book to my clients.

Vicki Panagotacos, MTP, CT
Life Coach and Grief & Loss Counselor
Los Altos, CA

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock'n the Boat August 26, 2008

By Todd Zimmerman

Format:Paperback

You can't help, but see yourself in the lucid examples and tender client sketches Dr. Kuhn shares with us throughout this compassionate and magical journey. Read it slow, take your time and answer the questions that have been forged and tempered in her heart's hearth through years of dedication to her clients and her personal journey to empowerment.

I experienced many things while reading this book: joy, grief, anger, confusion, delight and clarity to name a few. I was able to see my life and actions in a different light even though I am very familiar with the concepts with which Dr Kuhn works. This book shines a light literally into the delicious darkness and seldom visited recesses of our minds with laser like precision and the steady hand of a surgeon to reveal deftly, thoughts and ways of being that serve us no longer. This she does with a fierce compassion and the soul intention of reconnecting us with our essential self and our own power to choose.

If you are not ready and willing to change, don't read this book. If you read this book, you will have either to shift or buy a good eye mask, because you will not be able to turn off the light that Dr. Kuhn turns on. An amazing and transformative journey awaits you.