The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams
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The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams

Paperback – November 2, 2010

Price
$11.40
Format
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1594485251
Dimensions
5 x 0.5 x 7.96 inches
Weight
6.2 ounces

Description

About the Author Debbie Ford was an internationally recognized expert in the field of personal transformation. She was the best-selling author of many books, including: The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, The Secret of the Shadow, Spiritual Divorce, The Right Questions, The Best Year of Your Life, Why Good People Do Bad Things, The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, and The Shadow Effect. A transformational coach, speaker, and teacher for more than 20 years, Debbie created the renowned Shadow Process Workshop, was the executive producer of The Shadow Effect transformational documentary, and founder of The Ford Institute, the world-renowned personal and professional training organization. Visit: www.DebbieFord.com.

Features & Highlights

  • The bestselling, beloved classic on how to go into the dark side of yourself to bring out the light -- now with new material.
  • Debbie Ford believes that we each hold within us a trace of every human characteristic that exists, the capacity for every human emotion. We are born with the ability to express this entire spectrum of characteristics. But, Ford points out, our families and our society send us strong messages about which ones are good and bad. So when certain impulses arise, we deny them instead of confronting them, giving them a healthy voice, then letting them go.It is to these feelings that Ford turns our attention, these parts of our selves that don't fit the personae we have created for the rest of the world. She shows us the effects of living in the dark, of keeping all our supposedly unsavory impulses under wraps. We find ourselves disproportionately frustrated and angry at the selfishness of friends, the laziness of colleagues, the arrogance of siblings. When we are unable to reconcile similar impulses in ourselves, Ford explains, we waste our own energy judging others instead of empathizing. But most important, we deny ourselves the power and freedom of living authentically.Through the stories and exercises in
  • The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
  • , Debbie Ford shows us not only how to recognize our hidden emotions, but also how to find the gifts they offer us. This is for fans of Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch, and Deepak Chopra. The very impulses we most fear may be the key to what is lacking in our lives.

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Most Helpful Reviews

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buy this book and keep hold of it

I read this book over ten years ago and had to comment on it. If you are having trouble letting go of something someone did to you... read Ford's book now. It was an instant lightbulb moment for me and it really did change my life.
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The solution to most if not all world problems

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I recommend Debbie's book to all of my shaman clients. And I recommend it here to everyone interested in a better quality of life and world peace. What this book offers is the final step in the path to total healing and enlightenment or whatever you want to call a more perfect life experience or world. In fact, this work MUST be done in order to ever get there. That is how important it is. Read it and you read my book above, and you will know exactly why.
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Life changing

I bought this book when it was first released released and it was a life changer. The concept of embracing our bad habits and the things we do that we label as “bad” was an incredible revelation. A few months ago I was thinking about this book so I bought another copy to revisit. Hoping it is as amazing as it was the first time.
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Excellent book!

I love this book. Filled with great insight and personal stories, it's a fast and good read for such a heavy subject because of how well it's written. She has exercises at the end of each chapter to help you to work through facing your hidden Shadow Self and integrating it to achieve wholeness. I highly recommend this book!
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A MUST!!! This book will make you ...

A MUST!!! This book will make you look at your life differently....and you will change for the positive...if you apply the lessons taught.
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This is NOT an easy book to do the work on

I have bought this book many times for myself but have ended up gifting to people when they needed it the most... Someone has finally gifted it to me and I can't wait to finish it! This is NOT an easy book to do the work on! You must be brutally honest with yourself and ABOUT yourself if you truly want to know what makes you tick and to better understand your relationships with people.
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A good read for those looking for the light

The closer to the light you get ,the easer it is to see the shadow A great way to find the light
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One of the best authors in her field - this book is unforgettable.

I would recommend this book, without hesitation, to anyone searching for spiritual enlightenment and for a better understanding of themselves. Debbie's passing is a great loss but fortunately she will live on in her books. I read The Dark Side of the Light Chasers back in 1999 or 2000 and was so impressed with what I learned about myself that I passed the book on to a dear friend, who did not return it because she passed it on to someone special as well; and, that says it all. Debbie's honestly in her self revelations took great courage and I admire that so much. Obviously, her books mean as much to others as they do to me because she has sold a lot of them. What inspired me most was the exercises, which I enjoyed doing so much that I want to do them again. I remember exploring a whole new and exciting acceptance and understanding of myself. That helped me to have a whole new approach to life, to myself and to my relationships with others. Learning to embrace all that I am, to recognize and own both the dark and light sides of myself has helped me to love and trust myself - and therefore, others.
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Compelling and essential read

Debbie Ford is a sensational writer and this book has been a life changer for me. She brings to the surface the reasons why we limit our personal growth, and offers exercises in each chapter on how to reclaim our inner strength by accepting and loving even our worst qualities to become truly and magnificently whole, happy and successful. I'm so glad I found this book, it was exactly what I needed to rebuild my self-esteem.
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Love Debbie Ford Books

I have this in an audible and thought my daughter could benefit from it so I bought the book for her.
An excellent book that makes total sense. I love that she shares her stories.