Seeing Anew: Awakening to Life's Lessons - Softcover

Sheehan, Martina Lehane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184730396X ISBN 13: 9781847303967

Publisher: Veritas Books, 2013

Synopsis

Seeing Anew invites us to see ourselves, our life experiences and our relationships with new eyes. Through real life stories, we discover the patterns of thought, beliefs and habits that lead to stress, and in doing so, can choose new patterns that will bring spiritual freedom. Written by psychotherapist Martina Lehane Sheehan, this book invites us to enter into a healing journey through which the pain of past experiences can be transformed. Each chapter ends with a guided scriptural meditation, or healing visualisation. Martina is donating her proceeds of this book to Chernobyl Children International.

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Review

This is a beautiful book ... It has freshness, poignancy and a passionate truth about it ... full of wisdom, gentle humour and healing vulnerability. --Daniel J. O Leary, author of Travelling Light: Your Journey to Wholeness

This is a beautiful book drawing the reader into it, and into themselves. It speaks to the heart of the reader. --Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy, author of Gardening the Soul

A Cork psychotherapist is set to join world-renowned self-help gurus like Susan Jeffers and Eckhart Tolle on the bookshelves. Following an ankle and back injury which left her inactive for months, Martina Lehane wrote a self-help book based around the real-life experiences of Irish people. Her book, Seeing Anew: Awakening to Life s Lessons which has been snapped up by a top publisher, focuses on the profound life lessons that are to be found in the day-to-day doings of ordinary citizens. Lehane, a native of Macroom and a counsellor and psychotherapist for 20 years, was forced into inactivity for about three months over the summer of 2011 to allow her body to heal from injuries incurred from a fall. During this time she wrote a book. At the time, she says, she viewed it as little more than a therapeutic exercise. I didn't write it for publication,she recalls. However, her husband Pat insisted on sending the completed work to a publisher: I finished the manuscript and showed it to some people who were very excited about it but I didn t see what they saw in it! Then Pat said he was going to send it to a publisher. I didn t think they d be interested. I thought he was wasting his time, but they came back very enthusiastic about publishing it. The book is divided up into stories or personal experiences, each of which comes with a lesson or moral, and a meditation section for the reader. One story looks at the turbulent childhood experienced by two brothers one lived a very positive life as a result, while the other used those negative experiences as an excuse for his violent behaviour. The lesson, according to Lehane, is clear: One brother transformed his life because of the past, but the other repeated the past. That s a real-life example of how we all have choices. Bad things happen to all of us but we have the choice whether to transform our lives or to transfer it into our lives. The book is very much about self-help and focuses on the theme of human and spiritual development. --Áilín Quinlan, Irish Examiner, November 05, 2012

About the Author

Martina Lehane Sheehan is director of retreats and programmes at Ennismore Retreat Centre, Cork. An accredited psychotherapist, she regularly facilitates retreats and workshops on matters of spirituality and personal development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Veritas Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184730396X
• ISBN 13: 9781847303967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152