Something More:
  Excavating Your Authentic Self
   Sarah Ban Breathnach
  1998 Warner Books NY USA
   ISBN: 0446524131


In this eloquent & evocative workbook, you are invited along on the exploration of your life: its times, its relationships & its fears. Marvelous mysteries are unearthed & much healing occurs.

This beauty of a book leapt off the shelving cart at the library & I have since bought a my own copy as it's one of those books you take home & make your own. I knew I had to scribble my responses, my solutions, my experiences in its margins. Wonderful stuff! Something for every time you feel worthless, when your choices seem self-destructive, when you feel you have little faith & less courage.

Sarah Ban Breathnach quotes Nathaniel Branden in his The Psychology of Self-Esteem: ‘When we bury feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.'

Even if you think you know it all & maybe, especially if you think you know it all - take Something More off the shelf & riffle through its finely textured pages, stop & join in the odyssey. See if this book doesn't speak to you too!

Dare to become the archaeologist of your Self: to plumb your past with its unfulfilled longings, forgotten pleasures & abandoned dreams, to “excavate” the authentic woman buried inside. It's hard, dirty & lonely work - share a volume or two with your best friends! Your rewards are the shining truths you uncover along the way.

...from Anna's song in the The King & I: ‘Getting to know you, getting to know all about you. Getting to like you, hoping that you like me...you are precisely my cup of tea!' Yes, indeed!
(04/25/99)

Rebecca