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A Disturbance in the Force
Hello everyone!
Thank you to the SOTT team for this excellent opportunity to hear Dr. Edwards discuss her book. It was such a fabulous interview, and I found the questions very compelling and well thought out. It's refreshing to listen to such an in-depth interview about a book such as this. Too often in our culture we are discussing a book that approaches very deep issues as though they are merely surface concerns. We more often talk in terms of coping mechanisms, instead of an offering of deeper healing. Healing is always possible, and it's wonderful to see our attention beginning to shift to this realization. When Dr. Edwards drew the comparison to obsessive hand-washing, and she said she is not interested in decreasing the number of times per day someone washes their hands -- she'd rather assist them with that underlying feeling of being dirty, or bad -- that was just a wonderful example of what is so needed in our culture today.
We have a culture that idealizes the very traits that she addresses in this book, and encourages us to hold ourselves up to an impossible standard. So we seldom see anyone encouraging the opposite -- for us to find the means to look within, and by gaining insight, find ourselves more comfortable with who we are.
I often recommend this book to my clients (I am a social worker), and each person has said to me, "I can't believe Dr. Edwards wrote this book without ever having met me! It feels like she wrote this book for me, personally." It's such a common comment that I hear, that it really goes to show that she has indeed hit upon a personality "type," which is quite different from a diagnostic label. People with all sorts of various personality traits can be labeled as "depressed," or "anxious," but the PCS personality type is a specific type of person. Ethical, concerned with the feelings of other people (often to the exclusion of their own needs), compassionate. The one thing that they are sorely lacking is empathy for the self. I have found that people do begin to find empathy for the self, with the help of this fine book. It's very heart warming to watch that empathy beginning to develop. My clients feel such gratitude toward Dr. Edwards that each was delighted to get this opportunity to hear her speak. Thank you for that!
I can't say enough good things about this forum for offering us a chance to discuss this book, and to listen to Dr. Edwards answering our questions. Thank you again to the SOTT team for such an excellent interview! :D
Michele
Thank you to the SOTT team for this excellent opportunity to hear Dr. Edwards discuss her book. It was such a fabulous interview, and I found the questions very compelling and well thought out. It's refreshing to listen to such an in-depth interview about a book such as this. Too often in our culture we are discussing a book that approaches very deep issues as though they are merely surface concerns. We more often talk in terms of coping mechanisms, instead of an offering of deeper healing. Healing is always possible, and it's wonderful to see our attention beginning to shift to this realization. When Dr. Edwards drew the comparison to obsessive hand-washing, and she said she is not interested in decreasing the number of times per day someone washes their hands -- she'd rather assist them with that underlying feeling of being dirty, or bad -- that was just a wonderful example of what is so needed in our culture today.
We have a culture that idealizes the very traits that she addresses in this book, and encourages us to hold ourselves up to an impossible standard. So we seldom see anyone encouraging the opposite -- for us to find the means to look within, and by gaining insight, find ourselves more comfortable with who we are.
I often recommend this book to my clients (I am a social worker), and each person has said to me, "I can't believe Dr. Edwards wrote this book without ever having met me! It feels like she wrote this book for me, personally." It's such a common comment that I hear, that it really goes to show that she has indeed hit upon a personality "type," which is quite different from a diagnostic label. People with all sorts of various personality traits can be labeled as "depressed," or "anxious," but the PCS personality type is a specific type of person. Ethical, concerned with the feelings of other people (often to the exclusion of their own needs), compassionate. The one thing that they are sorely lacking is empathy for the self. I have found that people do begin to find empathy for the self, with the help of this fine book. It's very heart warming to watch that empathy beginning to develop. My clients feel such gratitude toward Dr. Edwards that each was delighted to get this opportunity to hear her speak. Thank you for that!
I can't say enough good things about this forum for offering us a chance to discuss this book, and to listen to Dr. Edwards answering our questions. Thank you again to the SOTT team for such an excellent interview! :D
Michele
We are here, Olesya. I think that the most important thing to remember is that, when you feel you are ready, even though it's VERY scary, you have to keep faith, and later on it becomes very liberating. Like she says in the book too, what is there to lose, after all? If we don't try to dig deeper, our life won't change. We will keep with the same old suffering, just coping in the best case scenario. But if we dare to look into "the Abyss", there are hundreds of opportunities awaiting!
