My Female, My Male, My Self, and God, A Modern Woman in Search of Her Soul, is a dramatic and moving piece of spiritual writing from the innermost experience of an amazing woman, Anneliese Widman. The former Broadway dancer and chirographer turned psychotherapist takes the reader on a breathtaking journey from a psychologically abused childhood to a series of failed relationships. Widman shares with the reader her confusion and pain as a child trying to figure out what she had done wrong. Her story of a tyrannical father and an abusive mother grips the reader and compels interest like a character in a Kafka novel -- except this isn't a novel. It's true. Unable to figure out who or what was wrong, she began a life long search for peace and meaning. In her quest, she shares with the reader her innermost secrets, loves, fears, hopes and joys. Widman's judicious combination of prose and poetry makes her reader an intimate partner in this compelling journey of an amazing modern woman. Escaping from a childhood which plagued her, Widman takes the reader on an thrilling journey of self discovery from a dance career, shattered and frustrating love affairs into therapy. She becomes an early convert to Bioenergetics with its emphasis on a free movement to release the real inner self. Converted to this new way of release, Widman became an early pioneer in the use of bioenergetics to train dancers. Unfortunately few of her colleagues in dance shared her radical viewpoint. Undaunted, she pursued her spiritual quest until she, like all others who walk the path of spiritual discovery, learned to look inward for the answers. In the best tradition of quest literature, Widman shares how she applied what she had learned in an attempt to help others heal themselves. As she realized that truth lay within, she began a second career as a psychotherapist. All who have sought inner wisdom and peace will find My Female, My Male, My Self, and God, a book that they simply can not put down until finished. Then they will want to pick it up again as a guide to use on their own personal path.

My Female, My Male, My Self, and God: A Modern Woman in Search of Her Soul

Widman, Anneliese, Ph.D.

Biographies & Memoirs

North Star Pubns

Using a theatrical metaphor, the author masterfully demonstrates a way to become the director of one's inner life. Using Psychosynthesis as the foundation, this user-friendly format offers an innovative way to honor every nuance of the personality and soul on all levels. See life as a play, with the reader as scriptwriter, director, and all the characters. A fun, powerful approach to personal growth and new awareness. 
Soul Play is an entertaining way to turn personal daily dramas into special performances. The author challenges readers to let go of the myth that change comes only through suffering. She offers a way to change that is fun and effective. 
Contemporary life isn't easy, and often it's far from humorous. From our everyday perspective, life seems complex and chaotic. Captivating drama is based on contrast or conflict. Suspense is built when that which pulls us forward clashes with that which holds us back. Either we become mired in the controversy and continue to suffer the pain of separation (tragedy) or we eventually resolve the conflict and experience the excitement of a new level of harmony (comedy). 
Shakespeare reminded us that we're all players on the world stage. While we want to play our part well, most of us stumble over our lines or fake our way through the scenes. We don't know how to turn our daily dramas into divine comedies. When we don't know how to orchestrate the tumult inside, life can be hell. 
Hell isn't fun. To be stuck in private anguish is tragic drama. Soul Play pulls the reader out of hell, guides them through purgatory, and leads them to Paradise. It opens doors into different dimensions of consciousness and provides ways to take charge of one's inner life. 
In The Divine Comedy, Dante visited all realms of experience and witnessed every nuance of human emotion from the most vile to the most sublime. It was the inner quality of a person that determined whether he or she spent time in the abyss or in the heavens. Developing inner qualities is essential to living a joyful life. Soul Play is about developing and fine-tuning one's character all one's inner characters.

Soul Play: Turning Your Daily Dramas into Divine Comedies

Self-Help

King, Vivian, Ph.D.

Creativity

Rage At God is intense. It is passionate. It is powerful. It is relevant to today's world. And RAGE AT GOD is a revelation to every seeker after self-healing and personal peace. 
Through three riveting human stories the startling, revolutionary concept of healing through rage at God is made clear and convincing. Marda, molested by her father, abandoned by her mother, unable to trust herself or others; Christopher who found his wealth and position inadequate compensation for his emotional starvation; Didi, a dynamic designer trapped in a literally murderous rivalry with her mother. 
Author Anneliese Widman, former Broadway dancer and cutting-edge Bioenergetics therapist, explains her theory of "Reflectivism" in recounting these stories with gifted perception. The notion that self-responsibility and spiritually blueprint our lives traumatic events as instructive messages from our deepest being to illuminate our path, our pain, and our purification. 
Rarely has a shocking concept -- rage at God -- been made so understandably human as in Anneliese Widman's portrayal of her three patients. Widman makes us see that the impulse to blame God for our troubles is the tragic result of a failure to comprehend the very nature of our creation -- the inviolate integrity of every entity, and its subsequent self-determination. 
Once this realization is reached, Widman proves rage at God turns into love for God. And, in her most inspiring revelation, we see that God's love for us has been given to us all along.

Rage at God: Ascending to Reunion

Presents the facts about menopause, exploring both the physical and psychological aspects, to help men understand what their wives are experiencing

No, It's Not Hot in Here: A Husbands Guide to Understanding Menopause

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Roth, Dick

Women's Health

(from the Foreword) In today's world, men must understand and be sensitive to the needs of women. How is this accomplished? First, it must be important to you and, second, you must read this book. Doctors Bekkar and Wahn have made a major contribution to lessening the "War of the Roses." They have taken gynecology, the medical speciality that deals with disease and care of the female reproductive system, and made it practical and understandable. If Adam had read this book before he entered the Garden, this effort would be superfluous now, but he didn't, and it isn't.... Obstetrics, the medical speciality that deals with the birth and its antecedents and sequelae, gets all the publicity. There are a plethora of books, tapes, and CD's for expectant mothers, fathers, siblings, and grandparents on all pregnancy-related topics. The involved male has nine months to do the right thing. Finally, he has a reference source that is a superb combination of succinct technical information blended with a witty, down-to-earth writing style that you will enjoy reading. To be a successful, enlightened gynecologist, or a successful, communicating male, you have to be part psychiatrist. Cyclicity, or the lack thereof, between the brain and the female reproductive system is the major physiologic link that dictates all "basic female stuff." If you understand this concept then you are well on your way, and this book will help you complete your journey. The nice thing about owning it, and it should be a reference source in your library, not borrowed sporadically from the local library, is that it can grow old as the women you know gracefully age. Right now, "Bumps, Dips, and Owies" may be your primary concern, but, years from now your frayed copy will still be there when you need to know how to repel the "Attack of the Killer Hormones." Although the book is for the "hulking beasts," the authors have cleverly entitled it YOUR GUY'S GUIDE TO GYNECOLOGY. Drs. Bekkar and Wahn know who is going to buy this guide and give it to those who think "a vulva is a Swedish sports sedan." Without a doubt, they have filled a void in many bookshelves and many lives. If you are reading this foreword, start spreading the news. (Robert Israel, M.D., Professor, Chief, Gynecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California School of Medicine.)

Your Guy's Guide to Gynecology

Udo Wahn

Bruce Bekkar

Men's Health

Wrestling With an Angel: Dreams Amd Stories of Men in Change

Sears, Jerre, Ph.D.

Psychology & Counseling

Explores women's health issues, providing men with information about concerns including contraception, female sexual response, menopause, abnormal pap smears, and gynecologic surgery.

Your Guy's Guide to Gynecology : Everything You Wish He Knew About Your Body If He Wasn't Afraid To Ask

Wahn, Udo

Bekkar, Bruce

Each year in this country, 30 million men and their partners are robbed of an essential part of their lives when they are faced with sexual dysfunction due to diabetes, prostate cancer, an injury or psychological reasons. Many desperately want advice, but are too embarrassed to broach the subject with a doctor or even with each other. In their timely and medically recognized book, Making Love Again, Virginia and Keith Laken give hope to these individuals who, like themselves, want to "feel normal" again. Virginia tells the story of how she and her husband have dealt with his sexual dysfunction, brought on by a radical prostectomy at the age of forty-nine. She reveals the solutions that have brought them closer together, and offers further resources and support groups that can be found on both the Internet and through local and national organizations. Making Love Again proves that it is possible to break free of one's pre-conceived ideas about sex, and to overcome impotency by continuing to make love in whatever form lovemaking may take. With a foreward by Dr. David Barrett, CEO of the Lahey Clinic, readers will admire the medical community's acknowledgement of this book as an aid to couples seeking to regain physical intimacy.

Making Love Again: Hope for Couples Facing Loss of Sexual Intimacy

Virginia Laken

Keith Laken

The Perfect Get-Well Gift with a Loving Message 
For anyone confronting illness, hospitalization, or surgery, this inspiring book offers succinct and useful understanding about well-being, personal empowerment, positive thinking, acceptance, and forgiveness. These profound and uplifting perspectives include specific suggestions for creating an affirmative atmosphere between you and your medical team.

Healing Now: A Personal Guide Through Challenging Times

Probstein, Bobbie

This is the book for everyone who runs across those words -- those psychological words and phrases in newspapers, on TV, and in conversation -- and doesn't understand them. From anal retentive and archetype to co-dependency and delusion, from narcissism, psychosis, and sexuality to collective unconscious, this book explains 131 psychological terms in a lively, easy-going style. Over 800 popular movies (all available on video) illustrating the terms are listed.

Blame It on Freud: A Guide to the Language of Psychology

Heussenstamm, Frances K.

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