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When Lisa Olivera was just a few hours old, her birth mother abandoned her behind a rock near Muir Woods in Northern California. She was found and later adopted.
Growing up, Lisa knew she was adopted. She later learned she was abandoned. Like with many adopted children, this led Lisa to wonder: Why did her mother leave her behind? Without answers, Lisa came to believe she was not enough. This story wasn't true, but it made sense of a confusing experience. It allowed her to move forward. It felt like the only way. Until, with the help of a therapist, Lisa began to tell herself a better story.
If you have ever felt like you didn't belong, or like you weren't worthy, or like you weren't enough, just as you are...it might be time for you to rewrite your story, too. Now a therapist herself, Lisa shows you how.
In Already Enough, Lisa explores how our stories affect us—often much more than we realize. She guides us through reframing our stories so we can remember that we are already enough, just as we are. And she invites us to join her on a transformative journey to healing. "Beautiful, meditative, touching, and hopeful" (Arianna Huffington), Already Enough is a powerful reminder that we are the authors of our own stories. The sooner we decide to write a better story, the sooner we can live a more whole, more meaningful, more nourishing life.
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- ISBN: 9781982138950
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- ISBN: 9781982138950
- File size: 11625 KB
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Languages
- English
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August 1, 2021
Growing up, Olivera knew that she had been adopted, but for many years she didn't realize the extent of her abandonment; her mother left her in California's Muir Woods when she was just a few hours old. What's wrong with me? Why was I not enough? These are the questions one might asked when faced with such facts, but after working with a therapist Olivera came to realize that she had to tell herself a different--and better--story. Here she explains how important our personal stories are to us and how we can reframe them to our benefit. With a 50,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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November 22, 2021
In this compassionate debut about fostering self-acceptance, Instagram-famous therapist Olivera outlines practices for readers seeking to change the stories they tell themselves about self-worth. Olivera begins by recounting her difficult background: she was abandoned as a newborn, which led her to question if she “was not enough.” But she determined to “rewrite” that narrative (“my new story goes like this: I am a person who is innately lovable”), and coaches readers that “it might be time for you, too, to tell yourself a new story.” She organizes her advice into three parts: “Getting Honest” (confronting beliefs), “Getting Brave” (including pressing through fear and negativity while rewriting scripts), and “Getting Free” (which entails “embodying... our full humanity, our goodness, and our inherent enoughness”). Olivera poses reflective questions that teach readers to unpack and start rewriting internal scripts, with a final “Ten Steps to BS” (aka “bogus stories”) that includes the necessity of repetition, to “tell yourself the new story, over and over, even if you don’t believe it at first.” Examples, including painful ones, from Olivera’s life are supplemented by anecdotes of her therapy clients, such as a persistent perfectionist who flipped her self-talk. It’s a brave and welcoming guide that will resonate with those who may have questioned whether they deserve to be loved. Agent: Laura Lee Mattingly, Present Perfect Lit.
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