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The Path to Wholeness: Managing Emotions, Finding Healing, and Becoming Our Best Selves
Emotions are confusing, frustrating, and scary, but they don’t have to be.
Everyone experiences emotions—some easy, some difficult. Dealing with them should be common sense, and yet it isn’t. Even though emotions are not uncommon to the human experience, we lack the language to fully understand and express them. This failure to understand can often lead to frustration and broken relationships.
In The Path to Wholeness, Dr. Mark Mayfield teaches readers how to slow down and explore the way our emotions develop. He examines the toll unexpressed emotions take on an individual and highlights the importance of paying attention to them. Start your journey to emotional wholeness and be transformed.
This book will challenge you to
look inward at your own experience and your own history;reflect on how these things have shaped, informed, and influenced you, your family, and your relationships;dissect your current understanding of emotions, your emotional vocabulary, and your emotional responses; andfollow practical and actionable steps to rethink and rework how you see and experience emotions.
Everyone experiences emotions—some easy, some difficult. Dealing with them should be common sense, and yet it isn’t. Even though emotions are not uncommon to the human experience, we lack the language to fully understand and express them. This failure to understand can often lead to frustration and broken relationships.
In The Path to Wholeness, Dr. Mark Mayfield teaches readers how to slow down and explore the way our emotions develop. He examines the toll unexpressed emotions take on an individual and highlights the importance of paying attention to them. Start your journey to emotional wholeness and be transformed.
This book will challenge you to
look inward at your own experience and your own history;reflect on how these things have shaped, informed, and influenced you, your family, and your relationships;dissect your current understanding of emotions, your emotional vocabulary, and your emotional responses; andfollow practical and actionable steps to rethink and rework how you see and experience emotions.
152 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 9, 2023
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August 19, 2023
The opportunity to read and review this book came at just the right moment. I had just had a total knee replacement and the physical pain was nearly indescribable. The long period of healing was wearing me down physically and emotionally. The pain medicine was causing an inability to focus. I was experiencing dark depression and anxiety and no Christian counselors were available anywhere in my area.
A massive change of thought and attitude was necessary. The Path To Wholeness by Dr. Mark Mayfield arrived in the mail and reminded me of something I hadn't done in a long time - writing in a journal all that I was thinking, imagining, and questioning. Throughout this engaging and easily understandable book, I was led through insightful and relatable discussions and writing prompts that started the mental healing process. I was able to define what was really happening and what I really needed.
Read this book if you or someone you know is experiencing anything like this. It will change you. It will strengthen you. It will help you grow. You will be blessed!
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free directly from the author, Dr. Mark Mayfield. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR requirements, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
A massive change of thought and attitude was necessary. The Path To Wholeness by Dr. Mark Mayfield arrived in the mail and reminded me of something I hadn't done in a long time - writing in a journal all that I was thinking, imagining, and questioning. Throughout this engaging and easily understandable book, I was led through insightful and relatable discussions and writing prompts that started the mental healing process. I was able to define what was really happening and what I really needed.
Read this book if you or someone you know is experiencing anything like this. It will change you. It will strengthen you. It will help you grow. You will be blessed!
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free directly from the author, Dr. Mark Mayfield. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR requirements, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
March 30, 2024
I read the audiobook version (which is not listed on Goodreads).
October 11, 2024
A quick, helpful, straightforward, and practical read by a trained professional. I appreciated his vulnerability and his thoughtful reflection questions at the end of every chapter. The counseling center he founded is near my childhood home and, while I was reading this book, a friend shared they needed a counselor. I looked up his counseling center in Monument, CO & was able to confidently recommend it to my friend. *Thank you Holy Spirit!*
April 20, 2023
Thanks to NetGalley for the e-ARC, I really enjoyed this well written and insightful part-memoir part guidebook to our emotions and how they affect us. It made complex ideas easy to understand and relatable.
December 1, 2022
Dr. Mark Mayfield is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and former pastor, who teaches at Colorado Christian University. His goal with The Path to Wholeness is to help us learn the language of emotions. I agree with him when he says this- how to express our emotions-is something nobody ever really teaches us, it’s not taught in schools.
In this book Mayfield shares his journey with mental health issues, providing perspective and experience. We need a real vocabulary when it comes to emotions. And we need to see that mind and body are one.
Each chapter starts with definitions, which are followed by the principles, end with reflection questions and actual action steps.
Now, I didn’t realize when I got the book that it was Christian based. Chapter 9 is the only chapter that’s really heavy on theology. That’s the one thing I didn’t like about this book is the religious aspect- not everyone wants that. But I’m sure many do and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, just not for me. However, it’s only a small part of the book, and I think what the author is saying is really important. I know there are people out there that need this book.
Thanks to NetGalley, Dr. Mayfield, and Tyndale House Publishers
In this book Mayfield shares his journey with mental health issues, providing perspective and experience. We need a real vocabulary when it comes to emotions. And we need to see that mind and body are one.
Each chapter starts with definitions, which are followed by the principles, end with reflection questions and actual action steps.
Now, I didn’t realize when I got the book that it was Christian based. Chapter 9 is the only chapter that’s really heavy on theology. That’s the one thing I didn’t like about this book is the religious aspect- not everyone wants that. But I’m sure many do and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, just not for me. However, it’s only a small part of the book, and I think what the author is saying is really important. I know there are people out there that need this book.
Thanks to NetGalley, Dr. Mayfield, and Tyndale House Publishers
May 24, 2023
I found myself having to pause at many, many pages as memories of the past arose with some of the insights that were presented in this book. Really not one to be skimmed through.
Practical techniques to identify and give a language to our emotions and hence explain some of our behaviors and feelings are given towards the end of the book. I plan to go through these exercises slowly to better understand myself and hopefully attain a healthier emotional life!
Dr Mayfield writes well and in an accessible way. I appreciated his honest and relevant stories and that of the many clients he has had over the past 15 years.
Practical techniques to identify and give a language to our emotions and hence explain some of our behaviors and feelings are given towards the end of the book. I plan to go through these exercises slowly to better understand myself and hopefully attain a healthier emotional life!
Dr Mayfield writes well and in an accessible way. I appreciated his honest and relevant stories and that of the many clients he has had over the past 15 years.
June 10, 2023
I had Dr Mayfield as a professor at Colorado Christian University, and loved the things I learned from him.
As far as the book goes, it’s okay, a bit shallow, could be helpful for someone not exposed to thinking/processing emotions before, some good exercises to think about, but didn't learn anything new as a therapist. It would be a good read for someone starting their emotional awareness journey.
As far as the book goes, it’s okay, a bit shallow, could be helpful for someone not exposed to thinking/processing emotions before, some good exercises to think about, but didn't learn anything new as a therapist. It would be a good read for someone starting their emotional awareness journey.
September 26, 2023
Definitely a book worth revisiting! If you've dealt with trauma or are curious about how the problems of the past have a way of affecting your present/future, this book, coupled with professional help, is a way to start that journey.
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