Below is an intro section of the book
“Emancipated: Breaking The Chains of Self Betrayal
To Thrive in Uncertain Times”(to be published Spring, 2017)

Emancipated. It’s a powerful word. To be free or freed from a confinement, enslavement, or restriction. To enter a new and open landscape of possibilities and opportunities. To be able to do anything you set your mind to. To be fearless in the creation of your life. To be without obstacles. To get out of prison.

For many of us, the prison is within ourselves. Our mind, our logic, our cynicism, our fears, our childhood programming. Get free from the prison of yourself. But how does this happen? This forming of a prison, then this getting free? How do you do it?

I’ve heard clients say, It seems almost impossible. I’ve tried for years and nothing. I can’t just change my thinking. There’s no escaping me. Often the road seems insurmountable, but one well worth taking, in fact, the only one worth taking. It will free you into all of your other freedoms – freedom to love unconditionally, freedom to be loved, freedom to be in purpose, freedom to live fully, freedom to meet your life head on.

And let me make this clear, the way I teach it, this is not a narcissistic journey of the self. It is indeed very self-involved. But ultimately you do it, in the act of service to things and people beyond yourself – for your mission, your purpose, your ideals, for your partner, your family, and others. This is freedom with a higher responsibility, what I call Conscious Emancipation.

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” – Nelson Mandela –

And yet, you cannot enhance the freedom of others until you free yourself first. Master love, trust, respect, and honor with yourself and then you may offer those qualities to others. You are pioneering a new trail where nobody has ever gone before – within you, a you who has never existed until now.

While others have taken the trail, they have not traveled the one you are on. You are a pioneer because you get to blaze a first trail within the unique you that has never been before. You are unique because even you don’t know who you will be, in that you are still being revealed, still becoming, still an unknown.

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