Bøger af Donna Marks

"The Power of Pain: The Search Engine to the Soul" - During 30 years of private practice as a psychotherapist, it became clear that many people misunderstood pain for a bad thing rather than as a driving force to personal growth and redemption. As a society we are taught to medicate uncomfortable feelings with activities, alcohol, pills and any other distractions that will keep us away from unpleasant feelings. When these fail we become addicted and sometimes even suicidal. This pamphlet helps the reader to understand that pain is the strongest motivator of all, and when embraced and understood as such, it can take the sufferer to the highest-humanly possible-peaks of growth and spirituality.

"Creating Your Success: You Are Your Dream" is an easy "how to" pamphlet that helps the reader to embrace their dreams, and to better understand how to brings those wishes into fruition. The booklet also outlines the five major blocks to success, how to work through them, and the keys to every person's successful accomplishments.

"Youth for Truth: A Guide for Internal Connection" is a pamphlet to assist young people in the method of developing an inner strength to their own internal guide. The time of youth is the part of life of trusting elders, but it is also a time when a young person is the closest to the Truth-it has not yet been diluted by outside sources. When kids are taught to disavow their own perceptions of reality, they are often driven to having emotional problems, mental disorders, and even addictions. When children learn to listen to (and trust) their own inner voice and align it with the wisdom of adults, then the power of common sense, definitive action, and a strong intuition are inevitable.

"Spiritual Sobriety: When Abstinence Isn't Enough" is an outline that clarifies why those who give up their addictions might get caught in a trap of boredom and unhappiness. The pamphlet provides real-life examples of people who became stuck in their journey of mental health, and how they were able to move past those blocks into a deeper understanding of their spiritual nature. Several paths are offered to help the reader to fully comprehend and access this natural state of being.

"Looking for God in the Heart of All Places" - At a time when many people are in search of spirituality, we are often led in many directions that provide a limited relationship with God. While the search-via organized and/or religious education-can be enlightening and fruitful, many people get stuck at different crossroads, i.e., when the newness wears off, and the desire tends to wane... This pamphlet will suggest to the reader that when a relentless journey to God is inward( rather than externally sought), life's challenges become better understood as fodder for the development of a genuine and lasting spiritual relationship with God.

AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HEALING, Dr. Donna Marks has developed a three-step process that offers a path to freedom from bondage. Learn, Grow, Forgive is written for those of you stuck in a pattern you can't break. It provides you with a way out of the maze. Marks shows you how to change an insane mind-set from doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results to a new sanity, doing the same thing over and over again and getting different results. Learn, Grow, Forgive helps you discover the origins of your unbreakable patterns, shows you how to grow beyond the emotional blocks that have entrapped you, and allows you to forgive-the doorway to lasting happiness. Marks's three-step process describes in detail how you can take any situation in your life and move it from the failure column to the success column. You'll understand how all your experiences are perfectly designed to give your life meaning and purpose. No matter what's happened, you can heal, you can be happy, and you can love yourself in a way no one can take away.

"Are you ready to emerge from your cocoon but struggle with pseudo-comforts like food, drugs, technology, and relationships that are no longer working? Are you ready to listen to the voice of love rather than the voice of fear? If you said yes, then this is when the healing moment occurs, when you decide to flip your internal switch and finally let light flood into your consciousness. With this change, you can take back control of your life and recognize that you are enough. In The Healing Moment, Dr. Donna Marks integrates psychology, personal experience, and A Course in Miracles to teach people how to use their traumas and pain as the doorway to enlightenment and happiness. The seven paths that Dr. Marks introduces can help turn negative experiences and mistakes into meaning and purpose. Triggers like a lack of love, respect, trust, and more can be transformed by understanding how the mind uses our own fear to manipulate our lives. This is your sign to choose to open your awareness to the voice of love and experience your own healing moment"--

In this easy-to-read revised and expanded edition of Exit the Maze, Dr. Donna Marks makes the revolutionary claim that there is only one addiction with many faces, and the key to overcoming addiction is self-love.Millions of lives are lost to addiction every year, causing more direct and indirect deaths than any other illness. In a world where many things are uncertain, we do know this: There are many kinds of addiction, and in spite of treatment and everything else we’re doing, addiction is only increasing. Dr. Donna Marks, a renowned psychotherapist, addictions counselor, and teacher of A Course in Miracles for more than thirty years, merges her professional experience and her own personal history of substance dependency to offer a single revolutionary solution to all addictions in this expanded and revised edition of Exit the Maze. No matter what someone is addicted to—alcohol, prescription or illegal drugs, smoking, working, gambling, and so forth—loving yourself is the key to recovery. This doesn’t mean the road is easy or a few acts of self-care will do the trick; the journey to true self-love includes delving deep into your past trauma to understand where your addiction began, addressing those fear-based traumas with compassion and forgiveness, exchanging bad habits with beneficial ones, and staying committed to the recovery process. Allow love to guide you through the maze of addiction and back to living your best life.