Publisher's Synopsis
"To thrive is to consciously expand past our restrictions and harmonize with our very being."
-Emma Bennett, Wayfinder: The Path from Pain to Purpose
In her debut work, Wayfinder, Emma weaves magic, myth, spirituality, and real-life experience into a story about the way forward from the Dark Night of the Soul and embracing this as a powerful catalyst for awakening. Emma shares what she has learned along the way on energetic self-care and how to engage in spiritually integrative ways of thinking, doing, being, living, and experiencing joy. There may be circumstances you were born into and could not choose. Trauma, death, loss, abandonment, and grief are part of the human experience. It can be difficult at times to come by a sliver of hope like a small piece of ice in your hand that quickly melts away as soon as you have it. You can choose human goodness in the face of it all. This book invites you to cultivate a lifelong investment in transpersonal growth, higher and deeper meaning, fuller experiential engagement, and resilience. Start a transpersonal evolution revolution for yourself and inspire it in others when they notice you living life in a radically authentic way.
The Invitation
Wayfinder takes you through a shadow journey into life's most challenging experiences to emerge with the gifts of revelation, profound personal truth, and authentic empowerment. This can unlock the greatest levels of personal potential and genuine, lasting fulfillment. For seekers of higher truth, what seems to be in the way is the gateway and the barrier is a gift that gives the very means to break through.
No matter the level of difficulty anyone starts with, there is a way to leverage breakthroughs to genuine healing, personal success, and joy.
Experience the real life journey from childhood homelessness and a traumatic brain injury, to the discovery of universal truths taught by Eastern and Western thought leaders. With no support system, no family, and no skills, one individual was able to teach herself how to thrive by letting go and finding a higher meaning. Wayfinder is like none before it. A guide to finding life's purpose and empowerment. Uncover simple steps to an authentic life worth living.
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From the Introduction:
This book begins with lows and builds up to the highs on a steep incline, which a gracious reader described as "a constant crescendo." I began writing this book during personal, health, and financial crises in my life. It chronicles my awakening thus I didn't censor out the mess before the glory. An awakening can be a messy process. It is conscious expansion, which requires you to stretch beyond and undo personal beliefs and learnings that do not hold the test of truth when challenged by your conscious expansion.
On Shadow Work:
You can avert the need for crisis to awaken and shift energy gradually through practicing meditation, mindfulness, and sublimation. Sublimation is from the Latin word sublimare, meaning "to raise a higher status." Elevate your response.
The practices of meditation and mindfulness wedge you into the space of power, the present moment, to choose your response and helps you stay in it long enough, with enough focus and attention to shift. The response is energetic in nature and key to shifting energy to elevate life itself. This shift is a quantum leap, or what Gay Hendricks calls the big leap, through thresholds and out to higher levels of perception and awareness.
The guardian of this gift is the gift of shadow work.
