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Untangling

How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck

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Untangling

By: Barbara McGavin, Ann Cornell
Narrated by: Barbara McGavin, Ann Cornell
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You know those problems in your life that never change, no matter what you try? What if they are actually where your greatest growth and transformation can be found? It turns out that being stuck is not an endpoint, it's a clue. Wherever there is something in your life that is impossible to think, or feel, or do, you are finding the exact spot where the next steps in your life are waiting to unfold.

Untangling®, a practice that can enable what is hopelessly stuck to untangle itself, was created by two internationally recognized innovators in the field of inner awareness. They developed the Untangling method to free themselves from their long-term struggles with depression, writer's block, food, and alcohol. What they discovered was that all these issues were fundamentally the same kind of problem: something they called a Tangle.

Tangles are full of Parts in turmoil, conflict, and confusion. And those Parts are waiting for you to become the inner environment where they can transform. Untangling shows you how to enable your Parts to resolve their conflicts, heal their wounds, and release the qualities they have been safeguarding into your whole self again.
In this remarkably clear and engaging book, interwoven with the authors’ own stories, you’ll learn:

  • What a Tangle is and how it got tangled up in the first place
  • Why everything you've tried to change your Tangle doesn’t work
  • Six Patterns of Impossible Stuckness: Hijack, Takeover, Rebellion, Intimidation, Despair, and Longing
  • Five Powers of Presence that enable any Tangle to transform

McGavin and Cornell propose the groundbreaking notion that intractable problems hold within themselves everything that is needed to resolve them. They show how Tangles untangle themselves when approached with an open, curious, compassionate awareness.

Untangling is a compelling new way to think about, relate to, and transform the most stuck problems in life.

©2024 Barbara McGavin & Ann Weiser Cornell (P)2024 Barbara McGavin & Ann Weiser Cornell
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Extraordinary, personal, profound, practical.

Ann and Barbara have taken their profound, extraordinary, and deeply enriching work, developed it more, and then here in this work made it readily accessible to the reader.

A paragraph I highlighted which helps me orient to navigating life's challenges with more grace:
"By turning toward the most hopelessly stuck and painful parts of your life with compassion and curiosity, you can live more courageously, creatively and authentically."

Sometimes when an author narrates their own book, I find their narration style or idiosyncrasies detract from the experience of the audiobook. However with this publication I was delighted with the extraordinary quality of the narration.

A book that can transform people's lives, indeed.

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Amazingly helpful for any stuck processes

This book is incredible. I could immediately put it to work in my life and feel myself moving forward and feeling more alive. I'm so grateful for the authors' work over the years in developing these concepts and explaining them so clearly.

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