Here is an excerpt from the book:
From the outside all looked fine, but no one really knew
what was going on inside. For years I walked away from jobs and people and even
places. Never living anywhere for long, I racked up travel adventures in search
of two things: a) a sense of self, who the heck I was, and b) work that would
finally feel like it belonged to me. As time passed, running away stopped
working. Managing the emotional disruption and pain by frequenting the pub and
leaning on food was not going well. But it wasn’t until life finally became
completely unmanageable that my inner journey began.
And it didn’t begin alone. Over all these years probably the
most important thing I’ve learned is that none of us can get to where we want
to go alone. We can’t see our nose without a mirror. It can be difficult to see
our ears even with a mirror. Our backs are out of the question. It’s the same
with our inner world. There are parts of us we love, parts we hide away in the
hope that they’re never discovered, and parts that we simply cannot see without
the help of another.
We experience a lack of clarity when we are hiding from
parts of ourselves, brushing things that embarrass or scare us under carpets of
pretending, avoiding, minimizing or defending. The result? A lack of clarity about what we want, what
we’re good at, who we really are, and what steps we should take.
