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Developing Awareness
Increased awareness leads to more freedom, more control, and more prosperity. " Developing Awareness is an excellent, deeply satisfying read of honest self-expression. Dr. Rode teaches the reader how togo deep, then shows how worthwhile the search and inner work is in achieving inner peace. In sharing her awakening, she lights the path for others."--Lynne Cockrum-Murphy, Ed.D., LISAC Dorena Rode demonstrates in this engaging collection of stories that anyone can develop awareness, overcome limiting beliefs and access their inner wisdom. These stories illustrate the first steps Dorena took to cure herself of decades of chronic depression and anxiety. Anything is possible! Developing Awareness will inspire and encourage you to look within for personal answers. This 10th Anniversary Edition includes questions and tools to help you explore and expand your consciousness and start creating the life you dream is possible. When you read Developing Awareness , you will · Learn what beliefs are, where they come from & how to change them.· Discover why healing and personal growth are simpler than you think.· Be inspired and uplifted by spiritual stories.· Learn how to change your money reality and cultivate gratitude.· Find valuable tools for ending depression and anxiety.· Understand that everything you need is within you.
129 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 11, 2017
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Dorena Rode
6 books20 followersDorena Rode is an award-winning speaker with a Ph.D. in physiology (UC Davis) and a degree in behavioral health counseling (Rio Salado) and over 20 years experience helping people and organizations get unstuck using alternative medicine modalities.
Her passion is to assist people in changing the habitual ways of living and thinking that no longer serve them. In her private practice and workshops, she operates from the premise that each person has the wisdom within them about what is best for them and an innate ability to heal completely from anything. She lives in Northern California with her partner and is actively practicing to achieve freedom for the benefit of all.
Her passion is to assist people in changing the habitual ways of living and thinking that no longer serve them. In her private practice and workshops, she operates from the premise that each person has the wisdom within them about what is best for them and an innate ability to heal completely from anything. She lives in Northern California with her partner and is actively practicing to achieve freedom for the benefit of all.
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September 20, 2017
"The Answers Are Within-A Collection of Personal Stories Volume 1: Developing Awareness is an excellent, deeply satisfying read of honest self-expression of pain, growth, and truth. Dr. Rode teaches the reader how to go deep, then shows how worthwhile the search and inner work is in achieving inner peace. In sharing her awakening, she lights the path for others." --Lynne Cockrum-Murphy, Ed.D., LISAC
July 9, 2018
Affirmations, questions to ask yourself, and advice for a different lens to view the events of your life through-a small book with the authors personal stories used to illustrate larger points. This was a quick read that I enjoyed very much.
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September 21, 2017
First I must say that I love the choice of quotes that opens each chapter. They are from some of the most profoundly spiritual minds of our time. Although The Answers Are Within: A Collection of Personal Stories Volume 1 - Developing Awareness by Dorena Rode is no Chicken Soup for the Soul, I am sure it will have its relevancy for some reader. The author labeled herself several times throughout her writings as being "melancholy" and this is precisely the way most of her stories come across. Nothing exciting, always a challenge, but the good part out of it all was the patterns of growth that she shares. I can't really say that the stories were inspiring, but I can say they were real, which might just be what someone needs whose looking to develop awareness.
The cover has a strange design that reminds me of an old lady learning to paint, so I can only imagine that book sales are going to be word of mouth and not because of an eye catching cover. I think that healers sharing their stories is very nice, but sometimes it can be a hard sale unless you already have an audience and this book being a memoir doesn't have enough substance to make me want to talk about it. The author comes across as a random thinker and writer, and I found it a little confusing tying ideas together in some of the more lengthy stories like, "On Believing", where she takes you on a plane ride with an imaginary story about San Francisco disappearing.
One of my favorite saying is, meet people where they are, which is also the title of one of the chapters. This chapter held my attention most because Ms. Rode gave some good suggestions related to the Law of Allowing, but I experienced confusion once again on the really good information about calcium. It's like a scientist popped up out of nowhere with a lecture on how calcium works in the body.
The "Fostering Peace Within" story is the best in the book because it is a good personal example of the courage it takes to find peace. In fact the one quote that I can give you that made the book worth my time comes from this chapter. "It is almost natural for me to choose thoughts and attitudes that bring me peace." Also, in the "How My Money Reality Changed" story, she brings forth a thought provoking question that will make you say, hmmm. "What do I love about not having money?" Cute.
The Answers Are Within: A Collection of Personal Stories Volume 1 - Developing Awareness is not a bad book, however, its presentation and writing could stand some improvement. With that, my rating for this copy that received in the mail for an honest review is 3 ankhs. I hope this helps Ms. Rode with the writing of Volume 2.
K. Akua Gray
September 20, 2017
Houston, TX
The cover has a strange design that reminds me of an old lady learning to paint, so I can only imagine that book sales are going to be word of mouth and not because of an eye catching cover. I think that healers sharing their stories is very nice, but sometimes it can be a hard sale unless you already have an audience and this book being a memoir doesn't have enough substance to make me want to talk about it. The author comes across as a random thinker and writer, and I found it a little confusing tying ideas together in some of the more lengthy stories like, "On Believing", where she takes you on a plane ride with an imaginary story about San Francisco disappearing.
One of my favorite saying is, meet people where they are, which is also the title of one of the chapters. This chapter held my attention most because Ms. Rode gave some good suggestions related to the Law of Allowing, but I experienced confusion once again on the really good information about calcium. It's like a scientist popped up out of nowhere with a lecture on how calcium works in the body.
The "Fostering Peace Within" story is the best in the book because it is a good personal example of the courage it takes to find peace. In fact the one quote that I can give you that made the book worth my time comes from this chapter. "It is almost natural for me to choose thoughts and attitudes that bring me peace." Also, in the "How My Money Reality Changed" story, she brings forth a thought provoking question that will make you say, hmmm. "What do I love about not having money?" Cute.
The Answers Are Within: A Collection of Personal Stories Volume 1 - Developing Awareness is not a bad book, however, its presentation and writing could stand some improvement. With that, my rating for this copy that received in the mail for an honest review is 3 ankhs. I hope this helps Ms. Rode with the writing of Volume 2.
K. Akua Gray
September 20, 2017
Houston, TX
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