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Write Yourself Into Your Dreams: with the Essential Life Story Method
What if the only thing standing between you and your dreams was your old story? The premise of this book is that your dreams are not mere fantasy—they’re actually meant to come true. If you find it difficult to realize your dreams, it’s because your unconscious narrative is getting in the way. To make authentic, lasting changes to the story of your life, you need a tried and true method, with proven results. You need a map with detailed instructions for each step of the journey. Write Yourself Into Your Dreams will provide you with that map and when you follow its guidance—no matter who you are or what has happened in your past—you can expect your Greatest Dreams to burst to life. Review “An unconventional and ultimately uplifting call to reclaim your own life story.” —Kirkus Reviews “There are incredible riches in this method that are beyond what you can even begin to imagine.” —Wendy L. Rogers, Ph.D., Psychologist “It’s like The Artist’s Way meets The Secret.” —Jana Kellam, Bestselling Author Full Kirkus “A debut guide advocates self-improvement through autobiographical exercises. Wade presents to her readers what she labels the Essential Life Story Method of transforming how they view their pasts and reshaping how they live in the future. The ELS Method, she asserts, will allow you to open “a window into your soul.” Going through that window “will uncover the blueprint of your own psychology and change that blueprint in ways that will immediately improve how you think, feel, and behave.” The ELS Method revolves around a deceptively simple core writing a brief (only five pages to start) autobiographical sketch. Take a pen, some paper, a private space, and then ponder and write your life story, at first in broad outline and then in increasing detail. In clear and very encouraging prose, Wade notes a handful of “best practices,” including write first by hand and transcribe to a computer later, read each chapter twice, and get feedback. These practices are intended to guide ELS participants as they expand their autobiographical drafts. Those expansions are likewise delineated, step by step, portion by portion. Readers are given a helpful series of writing prompts “What positive qualities, habits, and/or patterns do you admire in your mom? Which of these could you benefit from emulating more strongly?” The personal drift of such upbeat questions points to the ELS Method’s inner purpose, which is to use autobiographical exercises to take control of your own personal narrative. “The energy of your story radiates outward,” Wade writes, “producing a field around you that attracts everything that matches your story’s frequency and repels everything that doesn’t—good or bad.” The author deftly emphasizes that although ELS participants can’t change the past, they can reframe it—and that this can all happen through the power of storytelling. It’s a basic and thrilling claim, one that will cause readers at all stages of writing expertise to seriously consider putting their own stories down on paper. An unconventional and ultimately uplifting call to reclaim your own life story.”
191 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 2, 2020
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June 10, 2020
Teri is such an amazing author and has given us a must-read book with Write Yourself Into Your Dreams! In my own experience, I have been struggling to look deeper within myself and Teri has helped me start with writing out my life story and really understanding it as well as drawing patterns while analyzing it. It is a long journey through this and Teri makes you feel that the process doesn't need to be mastered overnight. I highly recommend this book even as I am continuing to read through it. Teri has a gift to help others and assist them with finding their own way by tapping into the unconscious mind!
July 22, 2020
Powerful Process to Rewrite the Past for a Better Future
The process that the author describes in this book could potentially be incredibly powerful and change your life. The author first tells us her story, giving context to what this book is and could be for you. Have you ever had a dream to do something big or different yet felt held back by insecurities and doubts because of your past? I think this is a problem for most (or at least many) of us. What this author encourages the reader to do and lays out in very precise steps is to, essentially, reframe your past so that it can be the springboard into the future that you want. The author writes with transparency and deep honesty about her own process and guides you through yours as an understanding and compassionate cheerleader. Frankly, I loved this book—its purpose, promise, and ultimate practicality with the step-by-step process given. If you feel you need to re-envision your past so you can live your dream, this book might help you get there.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
My book blog: https://www.readingfanaticreviews.com
The process that the author describes in this book could potentially be incredibly powerful and change your life. The author first tells us her story, giving context to what this book is and could be for you. Have you ever had a dream to do something big or different yet felt held back by insecurities and doubts because of your past? I think this is a problem for most (or at least many) of us. What this author encourages the reader to do and lays out in very precise steps is to, essentially, reframe your past so that it can be the springboard into the future that you want. The author writes with transparency and deep honesty about her own process and guides you through yours as an understanding and compassionate cheerleader. Frankly, I loved this book—its purpose, promise, and ultimate practicality with the step-by-step process given. If you feel you need to re-envision your past so you can live your dream, this book might help you get there.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
My book blog: https://www.readingfanaticreviews.com
March 31, 2020
What you long for is actually meant to be yours. 🦄🦄🦄
Write Yourself Into Your Dreams is a self help book by Teri Wade who talks about the ELS Method or the Essential Life Story Method to have a happy, fulfilled and generally better future.
This book focuses on how you can view your past from a different perspective to influence your future.
It also talks a lot about how parental influence can affect what you think you can and cannot do and how focusing on what you want rather than what is expected from you if you are determined and are ready to work hard to achieve your dreams.
There's a written exercise at the end of each chapter to help you better understand what you have just learnt from the chapter and comprehend it to the fullest.
E.g. What fears or concerns do you have about how the process of using the ELS Method will go for you?
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There's an interesting sentence that the author uses in this book, “That’s the story of my life—" and how people use it in a negative way rather than a positive way, and I realized that I'm one of those people, and I realized something else, “That’s the story of my life— I'm Blessed".
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Rated 10/10
Melina L.
Write Yourself Into Your Dreams is a self help book by Teri Wade who talks about the ELS Method or the Essential Life Story Method to have a happy, fulfilled and generally better future.
This book focuses on how you can view your past from a different perspective to influence your future.
It also talks a lot about how parental influence can affect what you think you can and cannot do and how focusing on what you want rather than what is expected from you if you are determined and are ready to work hard to achieve your dreams.
There's a written exercise at the end of each chapter to help you better understand what you have just learnt from the chapter and comprehend it to the fullest.
E.g. What fears or concerns do you have about how the process of using the ELS Method will go for you?
🦄🦄🦄
There's an interesting sentence that the author uses in this book, “That’s the story of my life—" and how people use it in a negative way rather than a positive way, and I realized that I'm one of those people, and I realized something else, “That’s the story of my life— I'm Blessed".
🦄🦄🦄
Rated 10/10
Melina L.
July 17, 2020
This book was a great read and it reminds me of other spiritual books I’ve read. It’s crazy how things would happen in my life in line with what I was discovering in the book.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
March 21, 2020
The Essential Life Story Method is, indeed, the most essential way to lastingly change your reality that I have ever come across. Teri Wade's guidance is both personal and natural, like the railing on a rope bridge. The exercises in her book are deep, supportive, and integrative. They led me to write the story of my life that supports my dreams in coming true. Write Yourself Into Your Dreams is infused with Wade's desire for everyone's to.
June 29, 2020
The ELS Essential Life Story method helps you to bring the negative things you're unconsciously telling yourself to light so you can transform them and manifest your dreams, all through the process of writing your (short) story.
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The ELS method is designed to help you resolve inner conflicts.
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This process helps you to truly change your thoughts instead of trying to divert them. When you change the story in the right way (which the author shows you how to do) you won't have to divert your mind anymore. Your thoughts will naturally be more positive after using this method, without having to try and make them more positive.
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Changing the story is necessary if you want to change the negativity in your mind.
And to know how to change your story this book is a must read.
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TAKEAWAY:
1. To change your life, you have to change your thoughts.
2. Thinking in the accurate perspective is very important.
3. You deserve to have all of your needs.
4. Prioritize your intuition over outside advice.
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PERSONAL COMMENTARY
1. The title is apt.
2. The narration is very well done.
3. The language is lucid.
4. The terms are explained briefly and in an understandable form.
5. The ELS letters concept is interesting (I didn't try it yet).
6. The methods are noteworthy.
7. The terms explained with examples enhanced the beauty of the narration.
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Overall a must read to understand how to change your story and your thoughts.
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The ELS method is designed to help you resolve inner conflicts.
.
This process helps you to truly change your thoughts instead of trying to divert them. When you change the story in the right way (which the author shows you how to do) you won't have to divert your mind anymore. Your thoughts will naturally be more positive after using this method, without having to try and make them more positive.
.
Changing the story is necessary if you want to change the negativity in your mind.
And to know how to change your story this book is a must read.
.
TAKEAWAY:
1. To change your life, you have to change your thoughts.
2. Thinking in the accurate perspective is very important.
3. You deserve to have all of your needs.
4. Prioritize your intuition over outside advice.
.
PERSONAL COMMENTARY
1. The title is apt.
2. The narration is very well done.
3. The language is lucid.
4. The terms are explained briefly and in an understandable form.
5. The ELS letters concept is interesting (I didn't try it yet).
6. The methods are noteworthy.
7. The terms explained with examples enhanced the beauty of the narration.
.
Overall a must read to understand how to change your story and your thoughts.
April 14, 2020
If you are someone who on an edge and not sure about your dreams and how to make them come true, I think this book is for you and not just for you but I think it's for everyone who is in their 20's basically.
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The book is so well crafted, it's such a short one but it's extremely an insightful one. I have personally learned a lot from the content of the book and it actually makes us realizes of what we lack for making our dreams come true. The language had a flow, it was smooth and lucid and at no point I thought it was dragged or stuck. If you are looking for a short yet a beautiful life changing book, try it. I will definitely recommend it.
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The book is so well crafted, it's such a short one but it's extremely an insightful one. I have personally learned a lot from the content of the book and it actually makes us realizes of what we lack for making our dreams come true. The language had a flow, it was smooth and lucid and at no point I thought it was dragged or stuck. If you are looking for a short yet a beautiful life changing book, try it. I will definitely recommend it.
July 22, 2020
#Insight- Our memories comprise of both good and bad ones. And what we do according to our instinct is remember the bad ones and use them to define our life. This book tries to change that through the ELS method. It tells us to use the positive memories, instead of the negative ones, to define our life. The ELS method, along with many examples, and inspirations are explained in the book.
#Review- The ELS (Essential Life Story) method is basically about changing your perspective of your own life, and taking control of it, along with the divine power you believe in, which the author calls source.
In the first few chapters, the author tells us about the ELS method, how she conceived it and how she used it to change her own and many other people’s lives. Further in the chapters, the method is explained in detail step by step with external links for resource materials for the ELS method.
An important thing in the chapters is that the author knows exactly what problems the reader might face, like being discouraged and leaving the method in between, and she writes that it’s okay. This feels like the author really understands people and going through hard times.
#Drawbacks- Although it is a self help book, in the beginning it needs to have more examples or short stories of success to make the reader take interest.
#Strength- The way the book is written, the author is telling the readers that it’s okay to be in problems as long as you’re trying to find a way out. The writing style makes the book a guide, not just a self help book, but your own personal Guide.
#Target Audience- For Everyone who thinks their past is stopping them from advancing into their future.
#Rating 4.2
#Review- The ELS (Essential Life Story) method is basically about changing your perspective of your own life, and taking control of it, along with the divine power you believe in, which the author calls source.
In the first few chapters, the author tells us about the ELS method, how she conceived it and how she used it to change her own and many other people’s lives. Further in the chapters, the method is explained in detail step by step with external links for resource materials for the ELS method.
An important thing in the chapters is that the author knows exactly what problems the reader might face, like being discouraged and leaving the method in between, and she writes that it’s okay. This feels like the author really understands people and going through hard times.
#Drawbacks- Although it is a self help book, in the beginning it needs to have more examples or short stories of success to make the reader take interest.
#Strength- The way the book is written, the author is telling the readers that it’s okay to be in problems as long as you’re trying to find a way out. The writing style makes the book a guide, not just a self help book, but your own personal Guide.
#Target Audience- For Everyone who thinks their past is stopping them from advancing into their future.
#Rating 4.2
October 8, 2021
The author takes you through her self-developed Essential Life Story method, which she has been optimizing for more than a decade. It involves writing a five-page life story that changes your beliefs and helps you bring your greatest dreams to life.
The book consists of 12 chapters with specific written exercises, all leading up to making your story as powerful as possible. From your intention, to your old life story, to your biggest obstacles, to old beliefs, you will experience quite a few realizations and breakthroughs that will bring you closer to a fulfilling life.
In the end, the individual parts, experiences, insights and outlooks will be put together with an ideal ending to complete your new story, that will help you manifest your dreams.
Completing the exercise has been a truly profound experience, that unlocks a lot of old ways of thinking and helped me move on. The cool thing is that the method doesn't help you achieve one specific goal or dream, but instead it's a framework that can be applied to anything.
Brilliant book, unlike anything I've ever read before!
The book consists of 12 chapters with specific written exercises, all leading up to making your story as powerful as possible. From your intention, to your old life story, to your biggest obstacles, to old beliefs, you will experience quite a few realizations and breakthroughs that will bring you closer to a fulfilling life.
In the end, the individual parts, experiences, insights and outlooks will be put together with an ideal ending to complete your new story, that will help you manifest your dreams.
Completing the exercise has been a truly profound experience, that unlocks a lot of old ways of thinking and helped me move on. The cool thing is that the method doesn't help you achieve one specific goal or dream, but instead it's a framework that can be applied to anything.
Brilliant book, unlike anything I've ever read before!
March 23, 2021
This book is amazing tool in opening your own subconscious up and clearing deep mailfunctions that are trampling up your progress in either professional or romantic or any other area of life.
It will make you face subtle ways you are sabotaging yourself and give you amazing tools to rewire and literally rewrite your own life the way you wish it to be.
Amazing book.
It will make you face subtle ways you are sabotaging yourself and give you amazing tools to rewire and literally rewrite your own life the way you wish it to be.
Amazing book.
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