Personal Strength Spiritual Joy: Bridging Heaven and Earth

By Jan Harrell, Alan Robins, Alan Robins Jan Harrell

Book Overview

"God wants you to stab your spirit alive and have you wake up your potential. This book will give you the know-how to do it now." Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul (R) and Co-author, Cracking the Millionaire Code and The One Minute Millionaire

"This is a beautiful, eloquent, wise and compassionate exploration. It speaks to and connects the deep and complex relationship between man and the eternal struggle for the divine." Lesley Ann Warren, actress

The journey towards psychological growth as humans and the journey towards unity with God are inseparable. Each leads inevitably to the other. Whether you believe your life is directed by God or is at the whim of fate, Personal Strength Spiritual Joy: Bridging Heaven and Earth will enrich your life. With wisdom, compassion and down-to-earth humor, Dr. Jan Harrell and Dr. Alan Robins will teach you how accepting your human limitations will transform your life and allow you to claim your true power in the world.

After helping thousands of clients in their private practice for the past 30 years, Al and Jan share their unique and insightful approach which provides a holistic view of faith at work in everyday life. Through personal stories and thoughtfully designed exercises and examples, this book offers concrete solutions and steps that demonstrate:

How to identify the real source of your worry, anxiety, depression and fear How to triumph when life sends you challenges and hardships Why you may know something logically and yet act in nonlogical and self-defeating ways How to dispel the myth of perfection once and for all How to handle the real feelings behind judgment and criticism How to become aware of the strength and guidance already within you

Al Robins and Jan Harrell show you how to accept your vulnerability, act with faith, and reach for your full potential. And at the end of all your efforts, you may find that the bridge to your best self may also be the bridge to a greater connection with God.

"Personal Strength Spiritual Joy: Bridging Heaven and Earth nourishes heart, mind, and soul and illuminates possibilities for full-out living." J. Fraser Pierson, PhD, Professor of Psychology

"With compassion and unrelenting commonsense, Jan and Al describe the psychological and spiritual blocks that prevent us from being fully alive, and offer practical help in the human quest for strength, wholeness and joy." The Reverend Anne Bartlett, Trinity Episcopal Church

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097954811X
• ISBN13: 9780979548116
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Light the Way Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Perfect balance

This book pulled two things together that seemed necessary for me to get past blocks. I've read a LOT of material, both spiritual and self-help. The spiritual literature seems to demand a leap of faith that I am unwilling to give without more explanation. The self-help books often lack an aspect of faith that I hope to integrate into my plan for change. Personal Strength - Spiritual Joy strikes me as the perfect balance. It pulls the idea of faith into the practical idea that feelings are real, and they are to be honored. It allows us the right to exist, and at the same time gives down-to-earth ideas for getting through difficulties. I recommend this for anyone who wants practical suggestions for difficult times.

Coming Home

This is one of those rare books that is worth reading over and over. Now that I have done that, I will continue to refer to it, as a manual for finding my way out of the tangles I can construct. Before I am guided out, to Home, I always feel less alone as I read Jan Harrell's and Al Robins words. They are willing to share their own vulnerability, so completely, that I feel seen. They provide me with a path to My Self. What a gift they have given us. What a gift I gave My Self when I bought this book.

Beautiful, kind, wise look at personal growth

This book does something that is so needed in the field of self-help and personal growth: bring God (or the divine) into the conversation. The authors are skilled psychologists with many, many years of combined experience. So they write from a solid psychological foundation. They make great use of exercises and examples which beautifully illustrate the points they are trying to make. And through it all, they encourage us to remember that we are children of God, and thus how we might see ourselves with more loving eyes. It is so much easier to look at our 'foibles' and the things we'd like to change or things we are ashamed or scared of, if we can do it in a loving, compassionate manner. Al and Jan do this beautifully. Pick up this book. It has something for everyone. It will warm your heart, challenge your mind, and perhaps provide a balm to some of the wounded places inside you, and help you start healing them.

Powerful

This book is wonderful. Full of transparency compassion and strength. I found myself applying the wisdom of Al Robins and Jan Harrell to my own life...after reading the very first chapter! Love yourself with complete acceptance. Allow the positive to embrace your life and love others with abandoned joy...read the book! [...]