Table of Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1 The Choice Is yours 1
Chapter 2 It's Time to Grow Up 7
Chapter 3 Let Go of the Old 13
Chapter 4 Recover Personal Authority 19
Chapter 5 Seek to Make Amends 25
Chapter 6 Step Out from under the Parental Shade 29
Chapter 7 Vow to Get Unstuck 33
Chapter 8 Come back to Your Task 39
Chapter 9 Chosse the Path of Enlargement 45
Chapter 10 What Gift Have You Been Withholding from the World? 51
Chapter 11 See the Old Self-Destructive Patterns 57
Chapter 12 What Is the Bigger Picture for You? 63
Chapter 13 Choose Meaning over Happiness 69
Chapter 14 Honor, Finally, What You Left Behind, and Seize Permission to Be Who You Are 75
Chapter 15 Exorcise the Ghosts of the Past That Bind You 81
Chapter 16 Free Your Children from you 87
Chapter 17 Bestow Love on the Unlovable Parts of You 91
Chapter 18 Honor the Difference between Job, Duty, and Calling 97
Chapter 19 Construct a Mature Spirituality 103
Chapter 20 Seize Permission to Be Who You Really Are 109
Chapter 21 Live the Examined Life: Live the Questions, Not the Answers 115
Afterword 119
Notes 121
Bibliography 123
About the Author 125