How well do you know your whole true self? What is your relationship to your inner life? Do you feel the freedom that comes from self-acceptance? What makes self-knowledge and awareness important stepping stones to self-acceptance? What are the changes that occur in our lives when we experience true self-acceptance? Peace? Freedom? A connection to the whole?
The answers to these questions might determine whether you are curious enough to take a look at this book. This book tells us we can build on a foundation of self-knowledge and self-awareness by looking inward and understanding how our inner life works. By knowing ourselves deeply we are able to overcome our limiting beliefs and unresolved emotions to find self-acceptance. Self-acceptance gives us the freedom to become our whole true selves.
When we live lives with little awareness of the ways our inner life works, we compromise ourselves. We go through the motions of life rather than living fully from the inside out. When we know and accept ourselves, we gain freedom and empowerment, we become part of creation unfolding as life evolves toward wholeness.
Living From the Inside Out by Douglas Holwerda is a book of struggle and acceptance. The struggle comes whenever we look away to avoid the pain, the negative self-talk, the fears, guilt, anger, frustrations, and anxieties that come along with the life that is ours. We stay outwardly focused rather than turn within. Acceptance comes when we turn inward to face what is, liberating ourselves from our limitations, freeing ourselves to embrace and live the life that is truly ours, connected to our intentions, and our creative potential, as part of the collective human experience. We find a ÒonenessÓ in our wholeness. We find our peaceful place in the world.
Carl Jung said it this way, ÒLike a plant, which from a seed, becomes an Oak tree, so we become what we are meant to beÉbut we get stuck.Ó Living From the Inside Out guides us toward self-awareness and self-acceptance to become unstuckÉto become what we are meant to be. To live, authentically, the life that is ours to live.