Links to Lesson-1 Resources
These resources
are used in the free
online
Lesson-1 study guide. They're in four groups:
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Research
summaries (a separate page) supporting premises in this Lesson;
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Basic concepts
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psychological wounds and recovery from them
using "parts work;" and...
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Selected
recovery
inspirations
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Many of these articles and worksheets include YouTube
video clips by the author to augment the text. The clips are grouped as
basic concepts and wound recovery. Note: the
Lesson-1 guidebook Who's Really Running Your Life? (4th ed.
2011) integrates many
these Web pages and worksheets. It may be ordered from Xlibris.com and other booksellers,
and is available in hardback,
softcover, and ebook formats. If
you have a prior edition of this guidebook, see this
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Review - the inherited, toxic
[wounds + unawareness] cycle that may be
stressing your family
Review - five widespread personal, marital, and family
hazards caused
by the cycle
1-1)
Unsolicited testimony about the impact of
Lesson 1 on a typical parent
Preview - premises about
high-nurturance families (Lesson 5)
Preview - perspective on Dr. Erik Erikson's
8
stages of human development (Lesson 6)
1-2)
Checklist: are you "wholistically
healthy"?
1-3)
What's
a "Grown Wounded Child" (GWC)?
Are YOU one?
1-4)
Detail on
six common inherited psychological wounds
1-5)
What
it means
to be
psychologically wounded (ruled by a false self)
1-6)
What is your personality?
Who are you, anyway?
1-7)
An introduction to
personality
subselves.
Who really runs your life? (2
pages)
1-8): Perspective
on your
"false self"
1-9)
A comparison of true-Self and
a
false-self behavioral traits
1-10)
Q&A
about personality-subselves (2 pages)
1-11)
An open letter
to people skeptical about
personality subselves (2 pages)
Review -
Excerpt from "Shadow Dancing in the USA", by Michael
Ventura
1-12)
Exercise:
interview
one or more of your subselves.
Experience an inner dialog.
1-13)
NEW Perspective on "mental
illness"
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2) Psychological-wound Assessment and Recovery |
1-14)
An
overview of recovery
from psychological wounds (3 pages)
1-15)
Q&A about psychological wounds and recovery
(2 pages)
1-16) Perspective on "hitting bottom" (relative to addiction and
wound recoveries)
1-17)
Outline:
how to
assess for psychological wounds
Wound-assessment Checklists
1-18)
Common behavioral traits
of psychologically-wounded people
1-19)
A
comparison
of common true Self and false self behaviors
1-20)
Traits of high-nurturance families
and groups
1-21) Check
your family tree for signs of inherited wounds
1-22) Estimate the
nurturance-level of a family or group
1-23) Traits of high-nurturance
families and other groups
1-24) Convert
excessive shame to guilt-free self-love and respect;
1-25) Reduce
excessive guilts to normal, and
use them.
1-26) Reduce
excessive
fears to normal, and use them productively.(2 pages)
Review - Perspective on
fear of abandonment, and recovery options
1-27) Understand and
reduce
reality distortions.
1-28) Improve
Self and mutual trust
1-29) Reduce
bonding disorders -
perspective,
symptoms, and recovery goals
Review -
Spirituality -
essential for personal and family health? (2 pages)
1-30) Are your
spiritual and religious beliefs toxic or
nurturing? (2 pages)
1-31)
Checklist: Are you
wholistically healthy?
Wound
Reduction ("Recovery")
1-32) Options for
personal addiction recovery
- a
requisite for wound reduction (2 pages)
Review Options for reducing
codependence (relationship
addiction
1-33)
Recovery: options
for
freeing your true Self
(2 pages)
Review - this Time article on
"The Early Roots of Empathy"
1-34)
Introduction to
effective parts work (6 pages)
1-35) Perspective on, and options for,
forgiving
yourself and others
1-36) Options for
balancing your self-control ("will power")
1-37) Options for
improving self respect and self love
1-38) Options for
improving your self-confidence
1-39)
NEW Practical
alternatives to suicide
1-40)
NEW
The importance of physical human contact. Are you
getting enough?.
1-41)
NEW
A brief YouTube video on
reducing excessive procrastination
Review: NY Times article
by Dr. Richard A. Friedman -
"Like Drugs, Talk Therapy Can Change Brain Chemistry"
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3) Resources and Recovery Inspirations
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1-42)
Research studies
supporting Lesson-1 premises
1-43) YouTube video clips on
(a)
wounds and recovery and
(b)
personality subselves and "parts work."
1-44) Selected books on
personalities, wounds, and healing
1-45) Update: the 12 Steps for
full (inner-wound) recovery
1-46) An inventory of your
personal recovery assets
1-47)
NEW
a profile of your personal
maturity
1-48) Selected recovery inspirations
to guide and comfort you along the way
Part 1
- Serenity and Gestalt Prayers, and others
Part
2 - Various inspirations;
Part 3 - On Risk, and others;
Part 4
- Big Rocks / Friendship; ...
Part 5 - Dalai
Lama's Millennium Prayer, and other inspirations
Part 6 - Symptoms of Inner Peace;
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Part 7 - The Invitation;
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Part
8 - Clearer Vision; ...
Part 9 - Rules for Being
Human, ...
Part 10 - What I Have Learned...
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Benefitting
from
in this
free self-improvement
depends on significant progress on freeing
your true Self and reducing related psychological wounds using these Lesson-1 resources.
The Web address of this article is
http://sfhelp.org/gawk/links1.htm