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A Woman Unto Herself: A Different Kind of Love Story
"Tina is a lovely soul... Enjoy this book." ~ Ram Dass
Imagine discovering the man you love is a narcissist with a double life. In this biographical story, Tina Benson describes in raw, visceral prose, the heartbreaking account of her journey to understanding how she fell in love with a narcissist, why she stayed in the relationship for so long, and how it related to her childhood traumas and losses.
Using her 30+ years of experience as a life coach and spiritual teacher, she expertly weaves together the perspective of a clinician and a spiritual warrior, with her own personal journey through love's sometimes harrowing labyrinths, and gives the reader a map for understanding their own relationships. Understanding how our childhood experiences shape our strategies for getting and keeping love, Ms. Benson's book will save readers years of heartbreak and frustration.
The culmination of her journey encourages and inspires the reader to turn inwards to find a self-sustaining, mature love known to spiritual aspirants as the "Inner Marriage." If you have looked for love in all the wrong places, hoped that someone "out there" will make you feel complete and whole, and are yearning to find a relationship with your own "Inner Beloved," this book will inspire you and guide your way home.
This is a story about love, loss, passion, betrayal, heartbreak, and ultimately forgiveness, healing, and redemption. Both men and women will find Tina's story illuminating, informative, instructive, and inspiring.
Imagine discovering the man you love is a narcissist with a double life. In this biographical story, Tina Benson describes in raw, visceral prose, the heartbreaking account of her journey to understanding how she fell in love with a narcissist, why she stayed in the relationship for so long, and how it related to her childhood traumas and losses.
Using her 30+ years of experience as a life coach and spiritual teacher, she expertly weaves together the perspective of a clinician and a spiritual warrior, with her own personal journey through love's sometimes harrowing labyrinths, and gives the reader a map for understanding their own relationships. Understanding how our childhood experiences shape our strategies for getting and keeping love, Ms. Benson's book will save readers years of heartbreak and frustration.
The culmination of her journey encourages and inspires the reader to turn inwards to find a self-sustaining, mature love known to spiritual aspirants as the "Inner Marriage." If you have looked for love in all the wrong places, hoped that someone "out there" will make you feel complete and whole, and are yearning to find a relationship with your own "Inner Beloved," this book will inspire you and guide your way home.
This is a story about love, loss, passion, betrayal, heartbreak, and ultimately forgiveness, healing, and redemption. Both men and women will find Tina's story illuminating, informative, instructive, and inspiring.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 25, 2015
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October 15, 2015
Tina tells the compelling story of her growth--as a woman, lover, and human. Her clear, descriptive voice, and honest account of her own emotional upheaval and ultimate surrender, are inspiring and heart-expanding. Spanning decades of time and continents across the globe, she synthesizes her experience seamlessly, weaving it into a captivating tale. A delightful book for the seeker in all of us.
November 4, 2017
Dysfunctional parents, dysfunctional relationships, and finally emotional independence are the major themes in this Jungian therapist's life.
August 11, 2020
Deeply touching, insanely courageous, deliciously erotic and deeply healing memoir.
"A Woman Unto Herself" is an extremely beautiful and highly poetical story of a wounded soul, who finds courage to dive into the very depths of her beautiful heart and face her subconsciously stored pain of childhood trauma and tangled knot of inner contradictions . Like a painting brought and held for a long time in a bright sunlight gradually looses it's pigments gradually becoming white, so is with Tina's courageous and continuous self-analysis and self-inquiry the subconscious trauma gradually evaporates, revealing the eternal peace, clarity and contentment of her beautiful soul. She becomes "A Woman Unto Herself"
Deeply touching, insanely courageous, deliciously erotic, highly poetical, Tina's story will captivate you and will bring you to a deep healing and gratitude.
Shiva Somadev author of "Journey into the Heart of Reality"
"A Woman Unto Herself" is an extremely beautiful and highly poetical story of a wounded soul, who finds courage to dive into the very depths of her beautiful heart and face her subconsciously stored pain of childhood trauma and tangled knot of inner contradictions . Like a painting brought and held for a long time in a bright sunlight gradually looses it's pigments gradually becoming white, so is with Tina's courageous and continuous self-analysis and self-inquiry the subconscious trauma gradually evaporates, revealing the eternal peace, clarity and contentment of her beautiful soul. She becomes "A Woman Unto Herself"
Deeply touching, insanely courageous, deliciously erotic, highly poetical, Tina's story will captivate you and will bring you to a deep healing and gratitude.
Shiva Somadev author of "Journey into the Heart of Reality"
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