The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul's Indigenous Nature

by Melanie Dewberry

Overview

Who are you, really? This is the central question. The question you might have been asking yourself all these years. Who are you without your title, your gender, your talent, your weight, your income, or your personality? If you strip away all of your niceties, all those embellishments that you’ve added to your persona to be accepted, what is left? If you wriggle out of all the identities that others have foisted on you, if you release all the ways you smooth out your rough edges so you can belong and feel safe, who are you? What is your core identity?

The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul’s Indigenous Nature is a beautiful guide to answering your soul’s yearning to be known, to live on purpose, and to be authentic. To hear and elicit your name, you will need to be honest with yourself and admit that deep down inside you have always had at least an inkling of your essence, but you’ve played a game of hide-and-seek with your soul.

Through The Power of Naming, peaceful warriors are born, false identities and labels are cast off, and a deeper understanding of the true soul is unearthed. As you work through the chapters of this book, learning to apply the teachings imbued with the author’s rich Native American and African American background, you will rediscover who you are and experience a new sense of freedom, love, and alignment with your highest self.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401950026
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	04/18/2017
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

In her writing, coaching, and speaking, Melanie DewBerry brings the wisdom and teachings of her Native American elders to others. Melanie’s heritage of both African American and Native American instills in her a stance of perseverance and the desire to live life purposefully. She holds a master’s degree in Asian Economic Development and Political Risk, and is a veteran coach of 18-plus years; for 10 of those she was the Senior Lead Trainer for the largest coaching school in the world, the Coaches Training Institute. Melanie is also an international speaker and has given TEDx talks in Austria and Vancouver. She uses the power of spirituality, language, words, and naming to remind us all how we belong to one another.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Who Are You, Really? 1

Chapter 2 Sacred Listening 23

Chapter 3 Childhood Interrupted 37

Chapter 4 Your Original Story and Original Medicine 69

Chapter 5 Unlocking the Closet 91

Chapter 6 A Little Lesson on Passion and Curiosity 113

Chapter 7 The Council of Elders 121

Chapter 8 Evocative Word Resonance 129

Chapter 9 Life as the One Who Belongs 153

Chapter 10 Declaring Yourself: Writing Your Manifesto and Vow 169

Chapter 11 Be Named 181

Chapter 12 Living as the Named One: Walking between Two Worlds 191

About the Author 197

Editorial Reviews

"It is said in the Native American world that ‘wisdom sits in places.’ Just a few pages into this glorious and empowering book, I could see the truth in that for myself. Wisdom sits in this place, inside these pages. Rarely have I felt so supported in reading a book. The author guides and challenges us with a masterful hand, a loving heart, and a knowing beyond knowing that this journey toward our own naming is both life affirming and treacherous. This is the book and the guide I’ve been waiting for."
— Patti Digh, author of Life Is a Verb

"Writing from her ferocious passion for stepping into the fullness of who we are and reclaiming our innate power and wisdom, Melanie Dew

Berry takes us on a journey deep inside to uncover our true, vibrant, wise, and creative selves."
— Alan Seale, author of Soul Mission, Life Vision and Create a World That Works

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