The Map to Wholeness: Real-Life Stories of Crisis, Change, and Reinvention--Your Guide through the 13 Phases of Transformation

by Suzy Ross Ph.D.

Overview

A journey into holistic transformation that can impact every area of your life—social, emotional, financial, physical, and spiritual—allowing you to live more deliberately and joyfully

Will I ever feel like "me" again? Am I on the right track? How will I reach my dreams and find happiness? Based on her comprehensive qualitative research, Suzy Ross identifies thirteen phases of personal transformation—processes thatform an upright figure 8—to guide you along your path toward wholeness. Readers will learn the map by entering into the stories of two ordinary individuals who face life-changing experiences that bring them into and through the depths of crisis to emerge transformed and whole. Equipped with The Map to Wholeness, we can understand the deeper purpose behind major life eventsand seemingly ordinary circumstances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623173821
Publisher:	North Atlantic Books
Publication date:	01/07/2020
Pages:	360
Sales rank:	1,114,959
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

SUZY ROSS, PhD, is an assistant professor and coordinator of Recreation Therapy and Complementary and Alternative Medicine at San Jose State University, California. She is known as a trusted, compassionate thought leader in the areas of personal growth, transformation, and play as medicine. The Map to Wholeness is her first book.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1

Part I Transformation and the Map to Wholeness

1 Transformation 7

2 The Map to Wholeness 27

Part II The Thirteen Phases of Transformation

3 Phase 1: Seed 43

4 Phase 2: Departure 53

5 Phase 3: Transformative Experience 61

6 Phase 4: Return 71

7 Phase 5: Displacement-Relief and Upheaval 81

8 Phase 6: Grief and Denial 91

9 Phase 7: Disorientation 103

10 Phase 8: Dismemberment 117

11 Phase 9: Surrender and Healing 139

12 Phase 10: Birth 161

13 Phase 11: Abundance and Creativity 187

14 Phase 12: Power 213

15 Phase 13: Integration 239

Part III Your Transformation

16 Where Are You on the Map to Wholeness? 255

17 Your Guide to the Phases of Transformation 263

18 Three Things You Can Expect during This Process 289

19 Making the Most of Your Transformation 297

20 Going Deeper into Personal Growth and Healing 307

21 How You Might Undermine Your Transformation 313

Part IV Transforming on Purpose

22 The Great Work Is to Become Whole 321

References 329

Index 331

About the Author 341

Editorial Reviews

If you’re going through a life-crisis or transition, experiencing depression or anxiety, or feeling like you’ve lost your way, Dr. Ross’s wise, heartfelt, practical, and inspiring guide is the map you need—to navigate this vulnerable and difficult terrain and find your truest self and life on the other side of your struggle. The Map to Wholeness offers you the steps and the pathway to a future that’s even richer, more soulful and thriving than you can begin to imagine. I can’t recommend it more highly.”
CLAIRE ZAMMIT, PhD, founder of FemininePower.com

“Dr. Suzy Ross boldly ventures into the space left by Joseph Campbell—dispelling even Campbell’s questions about how we become a new self in the aftermath of a life-changing experience. The thirteen phases of transformation ring clear and true. . . . Ross’s work defines a new lens through which we can make sense of both our highs and lows. I’m thrilled to share her work in all of my circles.”
ELIZABETH B. JENKINS, international best-selling author of The Return of the Inka

“Not only does Dr. Ross give us The Map to Wholeness, but she also clearly and conscientiously shows us the way to use the map. Backed by rigorous research and motivated by Ross’s personal experience of transformation, this book is a generous offering—served up by one who both shows and knows.”
JENNIFER LEIGH SELIG, PhD, depth psychologist, educator, and author of Deep Creativity

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