Growing Wings Self-Discovery Workbook: 17 Workshops to a Better Life-Volume One [Perfect Paperback]

Growing Wings Self-Discovery Workbook is designed for individuals, as an aid to promote self-understanding, help heal psychological wounds, raise self-esteem, and broaden awareness. Seventeen workshops include written, artistic, and creative visualization exercises to help one know one's nature; deal with pressures from the outside world; free one's self from psychological traps; deal with guilt, depression, anxiety, and anger; meet deep down needs; go to the root of conflict; heal from difficult past events, develop better communication skills; improve romantic and familial relationships; understand the psychological games we play; explore beliefs about one's self and the world; learn ways to embrace and stay on one's personal path; and to expand the boundaries of one's reality to see synchronicity in all things.

Susan D. Kalior has an M.A in Education in Counseling/Human Relations and Behavior, and a B.S.degree in Sociology. Susan has extensive experience in psychological counseling, facilitating self discovery workshops, public speaking, and aiding in the psycho-spiritual healing of many.

ntroduction: From the moment we are born, there is a general indoctrination into the precepts of those who raise us, and the world in which we live. It is understandable that the personal truth of who we each are as unique individuals would get challenged, covered, mangled, and marred, and worst of all forgotten.

Being true to oneself is key to coming into fruition. This means walking your own path, your own way. However, sometimes it is hard to be true to yourself if outside influence has obscured your sense of who you are. Sometimes, who we think we are is a reflection of other people's subjective opinions and collective agreement, and not the deep down us, often unrecognized and seldom celebrated.

In the story "Little Red Riding Hood," we are warned not to stray from the path already paved by the social group, or the big bad wolf will get us. While it is necessary to conjoin in a certain set of agreements and social rules that allow the community to successfully function, the basic fundamentals of who one is, is paramount. If one cannot be who they are, not only does the individual begin displaying signs of distress; be it withdrawal, depression, bursts of anger, drinking ones self to sleep, or a myriad of other behaviors; but those around the individual also are affected. Eventually it ripples out to the community and the world.

We are further 'submerged' by the commercial world's use of the mass media to decree how we should look and act, and what services or products we should buy to attain happiness. After awhile it is difficult to know if we are striving to become the image we are expected to be, or if we are striving to become ourselves who we are generally not encouraged to be. Once this is discerned, it is then the next step to become ourselves in the face of a social atmosphere that may not agree, and further tends to exert false power, portending to be the judge of our worth. In this workbook, you will have an opportunity to discover your quintessence so exquisite in worth, it defies all judgment, even your own. Your quintessential self, like the snowflake is unique to all. If the way you move through life reflects that uniqueness, you will be in your own flow, and thus experience a brighter, freer life. And just as your repressed self can affect all around you, so too can the expressive freed self!

Each session of these workshops will allow you to search out who you truly are, once all the imposed masks of others are removed from your face. And when you see that true face, it is my hope and my belief that you will cry with joy, and embrace a new and better way of living.