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FALLING UPWARD: SPIRITUALITY FOR THE TWO HALVES OF LIFE by Richard Rohr.

In 2008, on a Marine base in Virginia, I experienced myself for the first time as the me inside of this matrix of identity and personas I'd built up around me to protect me. For three years, I didn't really have a language to describe the experience. Then, in 2011, Richard Rohr published Falling Upward and called these two versions of us the soul and the ego, and everything made sense.

Since then, much of my life and writing has been about how to love both of those versions of us, and live from both of them too.

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Laura Wood's avatar

Co Dependents Guide to the 12 Steps, by Melodie Beattie. This book rescued me from an unsatisfying life by helping me to understand that I do not have to fix everything, nor make things more comfortable for others at my expense. I grew up with a mother who taught us girls how to treat a man (alcoholic). She sacrificed, took care of things, excused or father and his behavior, told us he loved us, etc. I married two alcoholics in a row. My third marriage is where all of my healing happened. I met a man who was capable, in and of himself.

It's really one of the many books that I love.

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