Early Acclaim for Why We Do What We Do

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Why We Do What We Do: Four Pathways to Your Authentic Self

A wise tool for self-understanding. This book identifies our unique ‘Inner Family Archetypes’ and shows how to skillfully work with these energies to yield deep awareness and wisdom about ourselves and how we relate to others.”

-Jan Angel, co-author of Buddhist Astrology:
Chart Interpretation from a Buddhist Perspective

An understanding of the inner family archetypes is one of the most practical tools you can have. If you want to transcend human relationships and make responsible personal progress on the path leading to self-mastery, choose now to begin using this book to effect desired change in your life.

This book is magnificent! It is very well written, easy to read. It is really helpful in understanding your psychology, your relationships and your spiritual path. It is also down to earth and has lots of interesting stories.

As a former teacher and lawyer, and as a life-long learner I have high standards, and Why We Do What We Do rates up there with the best. It has provided some real aha’s for both my husband and I in how we interact with each other. I no longer need someone outside me to set boundaries, to listen to me and to help me solve problems, to share my wonder, or to act for me. I can access all of those capacities within so I can have real, authentic, loving relationships with my immediate family and with other people.

Why We Do What We Do offers the foundational structure we must understand to effectively heal our bodies, minds, emotions and—most importantly—our souls. This read is a must. It qualifies as one of the top three life-changing events in my life! Blessings.

Learning the unique concepts in this book has infinitely enriched our lives. By understanding the unloving and the loving aspects in ourselves and in others, we have experienced a new world of wholeness.

This method is a revelation! Finally a way to understand the dynamics of relationships with a map to success!

All the parts of me are explained clearly in Why We Do What We Do. In understanding the whole person in myself and in others, life has become so much more enjoyable.

Life-changing concepts! That’s what I found in Why We Do What We Do. Finally I understand what has been happening in my life and the lives of family, friends and co-workers. This book shows how we are put together and the results of choices that we make. When you understand the choices, you can make better ones for a better life.

I wasn’t really living. Then Why We Do What We Do came into my world. WOW! What an eye opener! Life is sooo much more enjoyable when you know how to go through it easier. Thanks for giving us this wonderful book!

Why We Do What We Do has been most helpful for me to understand our different personality and behavioral patterns. As a teacher it is absolutely important for us to know this, so we can be authentic with those whom we have the privilege to guide.

I have applied this book to psychotherapy, and found that it helps my clients experience unprecedented empowerment over their lives and circumstances. I recommend this book for exceptionally profound and lasting change.

A vital and often humorous book. It was immediately one of the most directly useful psychology books that I have ever read. We read it out loud as a family! My 15 year old loves it! I think of it as humorous and spirited “Freud and Jung” for the 21st Century!

Knowing more of ourselves gives us wider and deeper degrees of freedom and happiness. I highly recommend this book as a road map to self-discovery.

Why We Do What We Do has been an invaluable tool for our family. It has helped each one of us understand our own inner dynamics enabling us to interact with greater compassion, appreciation and harmony.

I gave your wonderful book to many friends, because anyone who wants to understand themselves or others better can benefit from it. Thank you.

I have learned much about myself by reading your book. I have also learned how to better understand my relationship with my husband and other close family members. This has helped me considerably in getting along better with others. Thank you so much.

This wisdom book guides you to identify and understand your deepest patterns. It gives you all the skills and tools to make a full transformation from self-sabotage to expressing your highest self in constructive relationships. With its caring guidance, the fine-tuning becomes painless! Don’t wait to read it! Every moment of your life is precious!

The book helps you to understand and deal with your patterns, so you can ultimately get along with others and create healthy adult responses to the uncomfortable situations that we all face in our life.

Archetypes are everywhere, from native studies to Jung psychology. What’s great about this book is that it makes archetypes easy to assimilate and to apply to your own psychology

This method in this book has helped me tremendously. As a result, I feel that I am in the driving seat of my future.

Our ninth and tenth grade students had an adventure in self-discovery reading and discussing together the “four pathways to your authentic self” in our life skills course. The clearly defined principles and the abundant examples from real life and the movies helped to anchor the concepts and spark discussion. A great life text!

Wow. It’s so clear. It’s so easy to read. It fits like a puzzle. I’ve been putting it to the test with myself, my family and now my clients. By applying the new wisdom that jumps out at you from each page, your compassion for others will increase one hundred fold. It will permeate your world and bless others. You really will understand why people do what they do. For myself, I have stopped the self-criticism. I appreciate myself more. Can you imagine what a relief that is? This book promotes love, love within—where it really counts.

Why We Do What We Do provides a different view of psychology and lets us take a peek at ourselves in a new way. I have benefited a lot from the book and strongly recommend it to people who want to know more about the Self.

This book gave me healing and brought me to a new level of consciousness. The teaching in it helped me to find my true identity, heal my pain, regain my inner peace and find the love of my life. Thank you.

This reader-friendly book is an essential handbook for anyone actively involved in self-transformation. It accurately describes the language of the soul. After reading Why We Do What We Do, you learn what to do about it!

This book is an invaluable gift for improving communication skills. It played a key role in saving and improving our marriage when others were choosing divorce. Thanks to this book, the art of getting along with others has just gotten so much easier. It should be required reading in every college.

This work has taught me much about my psychology, and resulted in the following benefits: more positive interpersonal relationships, less difficult “difficult” people, and more successful work projects! I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is seeking to improve their life.

I am particularly grateful for the knowledge I acquired through this work to understand my conscious thinking and subconscious reaction patterns. This has affected positive change in my personal and business relationships.

This teaching helps us release our most private shame and grievous losses, which are hidden on the other side of our awareness. By understanding this teaching, I have restored to me some of my most longed for parts, and my most tiresome complexities cleaved like a psychological Gordon knot.

This book is the key to resolve and transcend those aspects in my psyche, which were stopping me from making progress. When I finished translating the book into Spanish, I wasn’t the same person. I felt better about myself, and my relationships with others. I still have a lot to learn from the book, but, at least, I am beginning to know why I do what I do.

This work has helped me get to what I have danced around for years. Facing myself, rather than looking at and blaming others, has been a most difficult but rewarding growth process.

The difference between this and other methods is that it lifts you right out of the problem into an understanding that is so very comforting. It is so empowering to see the drama outside and inside of you and to realize that now, you are becoming the director of your own life.

Working with the inner family archetypes has been a joyous experience of self-revelation. I have found this approach to be liberating to my soul as well as healing to my mind and my body.

The inner family model helped us to better understand how each person on our work team thinks and feels. This generated more good will in our office and helped us to accomplish more together.

Working with your inner family is one of the best things you can do for yourself. It helps me heal my soul and guides me in the process of understanding how my psyche inhibits or assists me on my spiritual path.

This enlightened approach to healing our psyche. The techniques of this model helped me understand where I am at any given moment so I am empowered to choose a higher, more loving way. This has done wonders for my interpersonal relationships and helped me to bond with my beautiful soul.

Knowing the dynamics of our inner family explained in this book sets the stage for the development of a healthy outer family.

My husband, family, and I first worked with the inner family archetypes over ten years ago, and we have been using it ever since. I have also used the model professionally for the last four years in both individual and group counseling. I feel my clients have benefited from applying the model to many types of problems, including depression, abuse, relationships with family members, and lack of self-esteem.

Working with the family archetypes turned my life around at a critical time. It is simply amazing to experience the change and ensuing joy that has occurred in myself and in my family through a classic watershed effect since working with these concepts. Thanks Brian, Caroline and Therese.

Understanding the principles that underlie everything I think, say, and do has been the source of my freedom. Today, people comment on my smiling, laughing, and pleasant outlook on life. It is such a relief to have the weights lifted off my shoulders and the sunshine on my face. I look forward to the rewards of infinite successes the rest of my life.

By applying the inner family archetypes in the classroom and at home, I found that I can optimally help children develop their full potential.

Working with the family archetypes is easy and very efficient, and the results are immediate. When I don’t feel good, I use the dialogue technique, and almost instantaneously I feel better. When I anticipate some challenging situations, I make sure that all my family archetypes are functioning in perfect harmony, by using affirmations or a dialogue. It is simple and it works! I am happier than I have ever been.

The inner family archetype model opened our eyes to the network of psychological forces underlying human relationships and transformed us. We had been working on my psychology for more than a decade, but nothing had near the impact that the inner family archetype therapy had on us. We now understand how to overcome insecurities and achieve a greater sense of wholeness and inner strength.

Having studied a number of psychological models, I have found none match the power of the inner family archetypes. These archetypes are an invaluable tool in sensitive communication processes with family, friends and colleagues. I am much more likely now to be effective with others, and much less likely to cause misunderstanding. My life would lack its present richness without this awareness. Assimilating the inner family archetypes has helped me understand the underlying forces that influence the people I meet, and has given me a greater capacity for patience and good will towards all.

The inner family archetypes are a gift from God. Studying them in others and myself has been a life-changing event. By understanding them, I made the first baby steps towards greater wholeness. If you have a hard time coming to grips with the concept of healing your inner child, this system will give you practical tools to change for the better. Not only will you be rewarded, but others around you will be uplifted as well.

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