Embracing Our Selves: Voice Dialogue Manual

Protective parts blend because they believe they have to manage situations in your life. They don’t trust your Self to do it.

You are all in this struggle, every one of you. All your problems are an expression and direct outcome of this duality. Look at your problems, go deeply enough into them, and you will see that this is so. You fear the impulses of the larger, wiser self, but cannot want to commit yourself to it wholeheartedly as long as you believe that some disadva

The mono-mind paradigm has caused us to fear our parts and view them as pathological. In our attempts to control what we consider to be disturbing thoughts and emotions, we just end up fighting, ignoring, disciplining, hiding, or feeling ashamed of those impulses that keep us from doing what we want to do in our lives. And then we shame ourselves f

The consequence of “rescuing the unintegrated aspects of our child self” is that our present adult self is released from the charged emotions that currently manifest as physical, mental, and emotional discomfort. The identity of the unintegrated aspects of our child self, and the sum of our unintegrated emotional charge, are one and the same.

The collection of parts that these traditions call the ego are protectors who are simply trying to keep us safe and are reacting to and containing other parts that carry emotions and memories from past traumas that we have locked away inside.

The chapters of this book follow the stages of spiritual work as I see and have experienced them. This is, fundamentally, the journey from the outermost layers of our consciousness, through the obstructions, into our innermost core. Chapter 1 encourages us to accept our flawed human nature and to honor our spiritual longing. Chapter 2 reinforces ou