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The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul's Indigenous Nature
Who are you, really? This is the central question. The question you might have been asking yourself all these years. Who are you without your title, your gender, your talent, your weight, your income, or your personality? If you strip away all of your niceties, all those embellishments that you’ve added to your persona to be accepted, what is left? If you wriggle out of all the identities that others have foisted on you, if you release all the ways you smooth out your rough edges so you can belong and feel safe, who are you? What is your core identity?The Power of A Journey toward Your Soul’s Indigenous Nature is a beautiful guide to answering your soul’s yearning to be known, to live on purpose, and to be authentic. To hear and elicit your name, you will need to be honest with yourself and admit that deep down inside you have always had at least an inkling of your essence, but you’ve played a game of hide-and-seek with your soul.Through The Power of Naming, peaceful warriors are born, false identities and labels are cast off, and a deeper understanding of the true soul is unearthed. As you work through the chapters of this book, learning to apply the teachings imbued with the author’s rich Native American and African American background, you will rediscover who you are and experience a new sense of freedom, love, and alignment with your highest self.
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205 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 18, 2017
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January 17, 2018
It's toxic not being who you are.
Naming your purpose.
It's mostly about being. Being present to yourself, so that you can be present to the other.
We need to confirm one another, it's the reason for our existence. To be in relationship(s).
Melanie Dewberry gives us a description on how to proceed, wherever or whoever you are.
The time is now, the present is where to start. Leave the baggage behind and move forward.
Doesn't matter your age or past experiences, move onward. Leave all behind and start anew each day.
Not easy for those of us who don't believe in our innocence. Our child like qualities will save us in the end. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
I was especially drawn to Chapter 3. "Childhood Interrupted" quoted by the author.
" When you were a very young child, you knew your name. You embodied it, lived it. But at some point most of us suffered an interruption by an adult__by someone who was not present literally or emotionally, by someone who smothered us, limited us, and made the rules more important than we were."
We are original blessings, the sins of our parents follow us and we in turn if not aware we pass them on and on and on. This is the process of "original sin(s)." We can stop this cycle but first we must recognize it in ourselves and turn it around.
The future of our generation(s) is counting on us to do the right thing.
Naming your purpose.
It's mostly about being. Being present to yourself, so that you can be present to the other.
We need to confirm one another, it's the reason for our existence. To be in relationship(s).
Melanie Dewberry gives us a description on how to proceed, wherever or whoever you are.
The time is now, the present is where to start. Leave the baggage behind and move forward.
Doesn't matter your age or past experiences, move onward. Leave all behind and start anew each day.
Not easy for those of us who don't believe in our innocence. Our child like qualities will save us in the end. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
I was especially drawn to Chapter 3. "Childhood Interrupted" quoted by the author.
" When you were a very young child, you knew your name. You embodied it, lived it. But at some point most of us suffered an interruption by an adult__by someone who was not present literally or emotionally, by someone who smothered us, limited us, and made the rules more important than we were."
We are original blessings, the sins of our parents follow us and we in turn if not aware we pass them on and on and on. This is the process of "original sin(s)." We can stop this cycle but first we must recognize it in ourselves and turn it around.
The future of our generation(s) is counting on us to do the right thing.
May 3, 2024
A Divine Read
This is such a healing and transformative read. It's not one to rush through. I loved all the beautiful exercises in it to help me to know my jeweled dark nature, my passion, better. This was most certainly a read that helped me to not only recognize my holiness but the holiness of others and one in which I was able to experience communion even as I sat alone. You could feel the author's devotion to her holiness along with her benevolence and reverence for the reader. I highly recommend this book to help anyone live a glorious life. As you can tell, I was also a huge fan of the sacred words and plan to use them more in each glorious day. Thank you, Ms. Dewberry!
This is such a healing and transformative read. It's not one to rush through. I loved all the beautiful exercises in it to help me to know my jeweled dark nature, my passion, better. This was most certainly a read that helped me to not only recognize my holiness but the holiness of others and one in which I was able to experience communion even as I sat alone. You could feel the author's devotion to her holiness along with her benevolence and reverence for the reader. I highly recommend this book to help anyone live a glorious life. As you can tell, I was also a huge fan of the sacred words and plan to use them more in each glorious day. Thank you, Ms. Dewberry!
November 27, 2023
The overall message of wishing well upon others is very important even if the whole text isn't completely relatable.
April 16, 2019
A great read +++
I really liked the content...the exercises & journaling have been very inspirational & I feel this much closer to healing...I will re-read & keep as part of my daily practice...I have recommended to friends...so glad to be a part of the book club, the experience of community is wonderful!
I really liked the content...the exercises & journaling have been very inspirational & I feel this much closer to healing...I will re-read & keep as part of my daily practice...I have recommended to friends...so glad to be a part of the book club, the experience of community is wonderful!
August 10, 2024
Melanie DewBerry has written one life-altering book in The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul’s Indigenous Nature.
She shares her wisdom and teaching of her Native American elders with a focus of helping the reader identify her core identity.
However, DewBerry’s process and focus on naming our core identity, at least in my mind, has far more implications for professionals in private practice including the naming of our businesses, the naming (and articulation) of what we actually do in our businesses, the naming of our strengths (and our challenges), the naming and understanding of our relationships, and the naming of our mission and purpose and vision. It’s a big promise - and DewBerry isn’t making this claim - but I am.
Her writing and her process are heart-focused, passion-building, and sincere. Her book is an education on the spirit of Indigenous People, peaceful warriors, false identities, and your soul. If you want to rediscover who you really are and you are willing to do the work, this book can take you deep.
I consider this book to be one of those “life-altering” books that I underlined and highlighted page after page. I will reference and re-read this book several times (which is something that I rarely do) and highly recommend it to anyone interested in digging deeper into who they are and equally interested in getting better at articulating who they are.
She shares her wisdom and teaching of her Native American elders with a focus of helping the reader identify her core identity.
However, DewBerry’s process and focus on naming our core identity, at least in my mind, has far more implications for professionals in private practice including the naming of our businesses, the naming (and articulation) of what we actually do in our businesses, the naming of our strengths (and our challenges), the naming and understanding of our relationships, and the naming of our mission and purpose and vision. It’s a big promise - and DewBerry isn’t making this claim - but I am.
Her writing and her process are heart-focused, passion-building, and sincere. Her book is an education on the spirit of Indigenous People, peaceful warriors, false identities, and your soul. If you want to rediscover who you really are and you are willing to do the work, this book can take you deep.
I consider this book to be one of those “life-altering” books that I underlined and highlighted page after page. I will reference and re-read this book several times (which is something that I rarely do) and highly recommend it to anyone interested in digging deeper into who they are and equally interested in getting better at articulating who they are.
June 24, 2017
Thought-provoking. Great exercises.
Life giving. Life changing.
Life giving. Life changing.
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