Travelling Free: Book Review from Body, Mind and Spirit Magazine
TRAVELLING FREE: How to Recover from the Past by Changing Your Beliefs
by Mandy Evans
Reviewed by Jeffrey Pease Ordering Information
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Recovery has become a national movement. In therapy and in twelve-step anonymous programs throughout the world people are becoming aware of how their pasts, and the beliefs they formed in childhood, constrict their lives. Many have discovered that knowing how they have been hurt is only half of the battle. In Traveling Free counselor Mandy Evans addresses one of the most challenging issues of the recovery process: how to move from naming your pain to changing your beliefs and your life. Evans tells us that, if we want to change our lives, we need only turn, perhaps ever so slightly, and take the very next step in a new direction. It's never ever too late to change our course and create a new life.
Evans, also the author of Emotional Options, draws on over twenty years experience as a counselor and her own life history as the child of an alcoholic family. She has worked with thousands of people, including those in recovery and the terminally ill. She has created a direct, honest book that is free of either strained positivity or wallowing in despair. She says that it is not what happens to us, so much as what we come to believe, that shapes our lives. Travelling Free provides a simple and challenging method for dissolving limiting past beliefs by holding them up to the light of your current knowledge and experience. This approach is described as different from, and compatible with, twelve-step anonymous programs.
Travelling Free is largely a workbook. The reader is led through workshop-tested learning experiences. To these exercises the author adds insights from her teaching experience, and inspiring stories about people she has worked with.
Evans offers readers a profoundly useful tool for self-exploration. Without asking you to deny what you have already suffered, Travelling Free helps you choose to embrace your own version of happiness now. It is recommended for anyone who feels that releasing the baggage of the past would improve their present.
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