Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation

well as growing in conscious understanding and creative development of what is experientially real in yourself.

outgrowing identification with what is unreal in yourself,

We will discuss the basic process of liberating yourself from psychological pain, as well as from various kinds of unhealthy addictions that are used to avoid the experience of psychological pain.

Instead, you become overly dependent on addictive, unhealthy substances and sensations for an artificial sense of inner vitality, euphoria, comfort, and psychological security

Then you become like a hardened empty shell, lacking a real heart, with an absence of authentic “juices of life.

The alternative is distracting yourself from emotional pain at the cost of numbing or desensitizing your energies.

This book explains how emotional pain can be meaningfully resolved, and thereby overcome by inquiring deeply into its origin.

which may involve no longer defending and holding on to their old, familiar but basically false sense of identity, psychological security, self-esteem, and habitual, overly-programmed, rather superficial ways of functioning.

basis of achieving transformational developmental growth of enhanced self-understanding and creative functioning by exploring deeply into uncomfortable feelings, inner conflicts, and creative potentials, even at the risk of moving beyond their current “comfort zone,”

willing to courageously open themselves to the risk of possibly experiencing emotional pain a