"You can heal your life" by Louise L. Hay

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My dear beloved regulars,

Louise Hay’s book “You can heal your life” is probably the first self-development book I ever read in my life, apart from “Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus” by John Gray which actually taught me more about how men work than about myself. Anyway, Louise Hay’s book is one of the many ones that never arrive in your hands by chance.

At that time, I was 28 years old and on therapy to heal the severe break down I was suffering from. I’d rather talk about break down rather than depression because that’s exactly what happened to me, my obedient social mold broke down to let my true self emerge for the first time. I was seeing a therapist that was recommended to me by a friend, a freudian psychoanalyst who would listen to me for forty-five minutes without saying a word. That wasn’t ideal nor exactly what I needed but I stuck with it for almost two years for I didn’t know who else to go to and it did help anyway. So, one night, my best friend who new what I was going through gave me Louise Hay’s book telling me that it had helped her tremendously when she started working on her well-being.

It was more than two decades ago and what I especially remember about that book is that it gave me the first feeling of safety I ever experienced in life. As I was raised by an abusive and depressive mother who had taught me that the world was an awful dangerous place, and of course the only safe place was by her eratic side which didn’t feel safe at all, it had never occured to me before that the Universe in which I lived in wasn’t an evil force trying to overburden my life and challenge it with obstacles in anyway it could. I had always lived with the idea that something wicked was lurking around the corner waiting to jump at me unexpectedly. It had never crossed my mind that I could actually be living in a loving Universe which was eager to take care of me or, at least, wasn’t my lethal enemy.

Louise Hay’s book is organized as a series of session with her as though you were attending them, giving you tools and insights to help you discover and eventually love who you truly are, allowing you to distinguish your true inner self from your ego. On that issue,

Mo Issa

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