Healing Amelia: Taming Your Ego States and Inner Voices with

Healing Amelia: Taming Your Ego States and Inner Voices with Parts and Memory Therapy

â€œA Part of me wants to kick him out of the house but another Part of me loves him and canâ€™t imagine life without him.â€ This kind of admission when we examine ourselves honestly and deeply is one we all intuitively understand. Similarly, for self-examination in the form of, â€œMy head tells me one thing but my heart tells me something else.â€ These are the sorts of thoughts and feelings that affected Amelia before our therapy began. We usually consider these â€œParts,â€ â€œheads,â€ and â€œheartsâ€â€ as metaphors or substitutes for â€œlogicâ€ versus â€œemotion.â€ But in this book, we take them for what they are, as proof that our minds are not unitary, but naturally multiple. The Disney/Pixar movie, â€œInside Out,â€ has already introduced a larger lay audience to the idea that we have naturally-occurring subminds that think and act on their own. Scholars have recognized this multiplicity for roughly a century, but the ideas have only slowly reached mainstream consciousness.Healing Amelia presents the narrative of Ameliaâ€™s discovery and therapy of her personified Parts of self (elsewhere called ego states, subpersonalities, sides, and voices). Complete with artistsâ€™ drawings of her Parts (Old Woman, Head-Banging Little Girl, the Witch, Gypsy, Love, Old Man, Monster-Head, The Hippie, and more), Ameliaâ€™s story includes overcoming her rage with her husband, her postpartum depression, her debilitating premenstrual dysphoria, and her failure to bond with her first child. Through it all she struggles with whether to have another child and with the Parts of her who vociferously object to that option.The novel therapy that unfolds over the course of the narrative is Parts and Memory Therapy (formerly called Parts Psychology). You are guided through the process of deep and lasting healing as Ameliaâ€™s internal Parts present challenges or blocks to healing but ultimately give way as Ameliaâ€™s traumas and trauma-like experiences are neutralized through the newly recognized process of â€œmemory reconsolidation.â€ The healing interventions that utilize this process lead to complete and permanent healing of disturbing emotional memories. In turn, this brings about the lifting of the heavy emotional shrouds that dampen joy and prevent fully living.
Country USA
Manufacturer New University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780982921975
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	New University Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780982921975
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Healing Amelia: Taming Your Ego States and Inner Voices with Parts and Memory Therapy

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