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Life Is Hard and Then You Fly: How Your Nine Instinctive Responses Can Turn Pain into Purpose Through the Revolutionary Healing Power of SMGI®:
"Life Is Hard and Then You Fly is a warm, candid blend of memoir, healing guide, and invitation to explore the inner world. Gina Vance draws on her personal history, decades of client work, and the method she developed, Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery,"
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Life Is Hard and Then You Fly: How Your Nine Instinctive Responses Can Turn Pain into Purpose Through the Revolutionary Healing Power of SMGI®:
"Life Is Hard and Then You Fly takes trauma responses seriously without treating them as permanent defects. Gina Vance identifies nine survival responses, including fight, flight, freeze, attach, submit, surrender, annihilate, avoid, and repeat, then "
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Life Is Hard and Then You Fly: How Your Nine Instinctive Responses Can Turn Pain into Purpose Through the Revolutionary Healing Power of SMGI®:
"Life Is Hard and Then You Fly presents healing as an active and personal journey, using the idea of turning pain into purpose as its central message. Gina Vance introduces readers to nine instinctive survival responses and connects them with trauma p"
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Life Is Hard and Then You Fly: How Your Nine Instinctive Responses Can Turn Pain into Purpose Through the Revolutionary Healing Power of SMGI®:
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Vance’s big idea is that the reactions that trip us up now started as smart ways to survive. She names nine of them: fight, flight, freeze, attach, submit, surrender, annihilate, avoid, and repeat. I liked having words fo" Read more of this review » |
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