Indulging in long hours of practices as a way of trying to fundamentally change who we are, is often a camouflage for lack of self-worth or even self-hatred. I can see why people would like this book so I wouldn’t necessarily dissuade anyone from reading it—it’s not inherently bad, it just didn’t work for me. What I love about Arielle’s writing is that she takes readers on this journey step by step, filled with wisdom and grace. When you conform to gain acceptance, you pretty much have to slice and rearrange bits of yourself to fit into that particular puzzle.

A normal aspect of growing up is that we are taught what constitutes appropriate social behavior and what does not. Come Home to Yourself is a powerful soul guidance and personal development course that will allow you the space for deep self-reflection, to help you to know, understand, accept and love yourself like never before. This course does require showing up for yourself, it does require commitment to you and the work, and it does require radical honesty and self-responsibility. There are many great spiritual practices and tools for uncovering the parts of us we have pushed aside, and there are many Shamanic rituals for soul retrievals, but here is one of my personal favorites.Finally, after an episode of her screaming, purple with rage in response to the way I had handled a project, I realized it was time to take a deeper look at myself.

If you no longer want to accept less in life, if you know there is more to you and life, if you want to finally back, support, trust and believe in yourself then this is the course for you. Things like stress and tension accumulate in our bodies and minds, and over time, if we don’t tend to them, they can lead to physical or psychological illness. You may already begin to feel yourself settling into the home inside of you: the place of your strength, wisdom, and clarity. Safely kept in check for as long as I could remember, the rarified energy of this meditative environment was revealing my long lost friend, the “shadow.In this particular vision I saw myself in Doc Martens and flowy dress, linked arm in arm with a long line of women as we marched together across the landscape. Her book, We Were Made for These Times: Skillfully Moving through Change, Loss, and Disruption (Parallax), is scheduled for release in October. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform.