Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care

by Sarah Peyton

Overview

Practices for well-being, based in neuroscience and geared toward kindness.

When we experience trauma or need to find a way to protect ourselves from interpersonal hurt, we make unconscious contracts with ourselves, such as: “I will never let myself get treated that way again” or “I will never forgive myself for that.” But these contracts often result in harmful behaviors like self-criticism, lack of trust, and procrastination. Until we recognize and free ourselves from these damaging contracts, we can never truly heal.

Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care takes us through the world of relational neuroscience and, using the lens of unconscious contracts, explores how our brains, nervous systems, and bodies react to the brains, nervous systems, and bodies of others. Case studies, resonant-language practice, questionnaires, meditations, and journaling provide readers with healing strategies for uncovering and rewriting these contracts. Following Your Resonant Self, this workbook provides the tools to turn inward with kindness, warmth, and curiosity and create opportunities for self-healing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393714654
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/25/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Sarah Peyton is a neuroscience educator, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, and constellation facilitator. She is the author of Resonance series: Your Resonant Self, Your Resonant Self Workbook, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times. She lives with two cats and a dog in a multigenerational family household in Vancouver, Washington.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Overview of the Chapters xvii

Chapter 1 Are You Willing to Like Yourself? Clearing Blocks to Self-Warmth 1

Chapter 2 It's Not Truth, It's Trauma: Resolving the Past 27

Chapter 3 From Self-Sabotage to Self-Care in Everyday Life 52

Chapter 4 Healing Shame by Identifying Broken Contracts 69

Chapter 5 Revoking the Five Contracts of Anxiety 89

Chapter 6 Claiming Anger's Life-Giving Force 114

Chapter 7 Coming Back From Dissociation 138

Chapter 8 Discovering and Dissolving the Contracts That Block Secure Attachment 159

Chapter 9 Moving Toward Trust and Away From Hurt, Disgust, and Contempt 183

Chapter 10 Finding the Path Out of Depression 209

Chapter 11 Working With the Layers of Addiction 226

Chapter 12 Reclaiming the SEXUALITY Circuit and the Self 245

Chapter 13 Dissolving Contracts That Block Joy 260

Appendix 277

Glossary 279

References 285

Index 291

Editorial Reviews

"Imagine climbing through an extensive trauma web, unsure of where to turn or how to get to firm ground. Through this transformative workbook, Sarah Peyton provides a clear map to help navigate this labyrinth with exercises allowing the reader to rest, pause, and go deeper if desired. "

Benjamin Burton

"Sarah Peyton's brilliance is in her ability to convey that healing is about being with the pain, getting curious about the pain, and sitting next to the pain; empathizing with and listening to the pain with wholeheartedness... Sarah takes us there in the most expeditious, while simultaneously gentle, path; through love, warmth, and resonance. "

Rajkumari Neogy

"Brilliant, engaging, deeply nourishing, and often liberating...a powerful and comprehensive resource for people wanting to increase the flow of life and love in their lives...This book is for people interested in living a life with more freedom, connection, and less inner stress. "

Bruce Nayowith

"The title of the first chapter of this wonderful book asks, 'Are you willing to like yourself?' If we are willing to make use of it, we can transform self-loathing into deep compassion. Sarah Peyton has gifted her resources to us in language that is clear, loving, accessible, warm, and resonant. "

Clare Crombie