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Coming Into Your Own: A Woman's Guide Through Life Transitions Paperback – August 11, 2015

by Barbara Cecil (Author)

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Google references 94,000,000 hits dealing with Women in Life Transitions.” What if the throes of change provide access to one’s innate calling? Author Barbara Cecil's experience with thousands of women says that this is so, and that these women want help to align themselves with an inner truth. Coming Into Your Own: A Woman's Guide Through Life Transitions helps organize the chaos inherent in change. It gives readers a path that is rightly their own. Personal stories from women around the world give hope.

Coming Into Your Own describes the inherent field of possibility” that lives just under the storylines of our lives. This invisible field contains the potential that is uniquely our own. The book also outlines specific, universal phases of transition in what Cecil has named the "Wheel of Change." She calls these phases Dwelling Places” because we must dwell in each one for as long as it takes to fulfill the promise of that stage. Identifying where we are on this map is greatly relieving. Once we know where we are, we understand how to make contact with the underlying field of possibility that will, in turn, inform our choices and give meaning to our lives.

Print length

222 pages
Language

English
Publisher

White Cloud Press
Publication date

August 11, 2015
Dimensions

8 x 8 inches
ISBN-10

1935952609
ISBN-13

978-1935952602
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About the Author

Barbara Cecil is a founding partner of the consulting company The Ashland Institute. She has supported the development of women leaders around the world and, with colleagues, designed a program called Coming into Your Own, which is in operation around the world. She lives in Ashland, OR.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ White Cloud Press (August 11, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1935952609
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1935952602
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,571,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6,869 in General Women's Health
- #50,637 in Personal Transformation Self-Help

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Karen Marie Woodbury

Embracing Self

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2022

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Every woman must "Stop" and evaluate where she has been and where she is now. This book allows us to look at the shadow lurking behind who we have never approached. Facing our "endings" helps us to stop looking in the rearview window trying to move forward. We live "in between life" when we want safety. Celebrating new beginnings helps us to embrace growth using side mirrors for distractions. Tending allows us to answer our True Calling in order to Dwell in or place of being before Coming To Ourselves. Every woman needs this book.

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Laura Loescher

Inspiring and practical! Wonderful guidance for navigating life transitions

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2015

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I love this book so much that within a week of reading it, I've already gifted it to seven other people! Coming Into Your Own is written in a grounded, accessible style, and is filled with diverse stories of women going through transitions in their lives. Barbara's beautifully simple model of transition includes for stages or "dwelling places" - Endings, In Between, New Beginnings, and Tending - overlaying a field of possibility. No matter where you are in that cycle of transition yourself, Barbara's loving guidance offers inspiration, compassion and practical suggestions for how to navigate the waters of change.

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Mary

better on the initial stages of

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2016

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kind of lagged toward the end...better on the initial stages of transitions

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Marybeth Christie Redmond

Hopeful, transformative guide for women

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2017

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A hopeful, transformative guide to the transitions that women encounter at various points along the journey, with utmost validation (though many moving stories) to be present and live fully in the phase one finds oneself. The wisdom of the author's life experience comes through with strength, clarity and grace.

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2016

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An amazing read. Very insightful and motivating.

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2016

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Excellent, helpful and very meaningful

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2015

Love this book!

Eureka!! Answers and Hope At Last

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2015

Wow! What a timely arrival. I have been in what feels like a state of limbo for a few years with virtually no forward momentum. What little forward movement I have had was also accompanied by what looked like many steps backward. Only to return to the state of limbo. I was reluctant to read this book at first, because of the course my life has taken and deep feelings of hopelessness that anything could possible help me. However, my friends, whom I cherish and trust dearly, knowing of my state of limbo, encouraged me to continue reading because the answers I longed for were just around the corner. So I read and just finished.

Eureka!! Answers, hope, clarity, context, reference points, power returned, and much more. The most valuable gift this book offers is the permission to be where you are on your journey and to know, with certainty, you are not alone, there is hope and guidance, and a natural order to the chaos our lives can become.

Please give yourself the space and time needed, as well as the permission, to be totally where you are. Then read this book and look forward to figuring out where you are headed next.

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Daniëlle van de Kemenade

Amazing book

Reviewed in Germany on November 21, 2016

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I run a coaching practice supporting women in transition, and this is a book I've possibly recommended the most. The model for personal and professional authentic development offered in this book feels deeply true to life. Whereas other books on transition or adult development take a more pro-active approach to becoming our authentic selves, this book, and Barbara's model derived from her experience running women's leadership programs, honors the passive, more quiet 'messy middle' of transition just as much. Each 'stage' of transition, detailed in different chapters, mentions typical emotions we might struggle with here, as well as practices we might engage in to help us feel supported at this stage in our lives.

Miss Richmond

Beautiful book honouring life processes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2016

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This is a beautiful book constructed thoughtfully and carefully from theory and experience. The first chapter is about recognising endings, the second is about feeling comfortable in the in-between stage which is rarely honoured in modern life, it includes illustrative and inspiring case studies and I've recommended it to several friends already.

Louise Broomberg

Reading Coming into Your Own has been like having a trusted friend take my hand and lovingly ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2016

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Reading Coming into Your Own has been like having a trusted friend take my hand and lovingly guide me through the landscape of my life. Thank you, Barbara - your insight, compassion, humility, humour and profound wisdom has been a healing balm for my soul. Such a gift!

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