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

by Dawna Markova (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist
Markova has a talent for imaginative applications of psychiatric and Asian healing concepts (which she credits extensively). Focusing on internal stresses, she creates a logic and an atmosphere for appropriating them, guiding the reader to uncover their positive function and search for alternative expressions. Her rather elaborate theoretical structure has some telling points, chiefly allowing for individual variations in coping with problems, while her own experiences and client examples demonstrate how to transform bad things by using the imagination. Reading the exercises and the ideas of others begins to stretch the mind, but the development she projects seems most compelling in the processes she offers, perhaps requiring presence and participation to reveal their worth. Virginia Dwyer

Product Description
How do ordinary people change themselves sufficiently so they can break their crippling silences, and tell the stories of how they saved their lives? How do people live their lives so they learn to heal and conversely, how do people heal in order to live their lives? Everyone has things, both large and small, they want to change or get rid in themselves. This book presents a transformative process for perceiving problems as solutions in a step-by-step pathway to healing. Based on the author's work with hundreds of clients and her own recovery from addiction, a life-threatening cancer and childhood abuse, Dr Markova believes that through awareness, imagination and compassion people can turn toward and face their problems and demons in a way that creates wholeness instead of fragmentation. The book provides a process to learn new ways to relate compassionately to the things inside and out that people oppose, and to use the unique resources of people's own minds to save their lives. Dawna Markova is the author of "The Art of the Possible" and "How Your Child is Smart".

Product Details

• Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: Conari Press (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 094323364X
• ISBN-13: 978-0943233642
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #197,192 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Journey, November 7, 2001

By	Lara Willing (Los Gatos, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heart warming, comforting, excellent, April 30, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Israel) - See all my reviews

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.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thinking Anew, December 17, 2000

By A Customer

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.