Have recently ordered that book, it should be here any day now.

I "discovered" Debbie Ford about a month ago when I read reviews of "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers" on Amazon.  Had seen that book before and initially thought it was just one of the many titles bashing "new age" thought and direction.  For some reason I eventually began to read the reviews and bought a copy and by the time I had finished discovered that her basic philosophy is very similar to mine, that we hide our dark side to cover the pain that hides our true inner self - and we all have pain.  What we have used to cover our pain is beneficial - at the time we originally slipped the cover over it.  She makes good points about that and gives ways to validate how we have used these dark aspects of self for our benefit.  The book has to do with how to uncover that pain and to recognize or "love" (a dynamite word with many meanings) the original pain.  It's all part of self discovery, uncovering the true self, and is a never ending process as Debbie points out.  I've been doing a similar thing for many years with the type of meditation that I practice, but this book gave me new insight and new areas to deal with and was a tremendous healing for me.

I'm pretty much into "Spiritual Divorce" by Debbie also.  It gives direction for turning a huge loss into an asset.  When we can learn from our experiences we can change and grow and quit learning by repeating similar experiences over and over again.  Debbie describes how she was abandoned one year into her marriage with an infant son and no income and how she went through depression and turmoil until she turned it into a blessing.  As she neutralized the pain and got rid of the lies in her reality (which she calls "fiction"), she almost immediately attracted employment, a career, and relationships.  I have learned that when I quit lying to myself, it opens up many new and exciting things in my life.  I'm still using this book as a guide to healing what was once a tremendously loving relationship that ended in divorce several years ago.

One of the many things I respect about Debbie Ford is that she has walked the walk.  She was a drug and alcohol abuser and went through dry out and made a decision to change her life, and did so.  She never tells which drug she was on but with the lifestyle she was living on Miami Beach I suspect that it was cocaine.  Her recovery wasn't easy, but she learned through that recovery and her search for self, things that others can use to rid themselves of the pain and negativity that resides in or has lived in all of us.  She also went through a devastating divorce and did the same thing.  Turned it into a positive and gives the steps she used in her own recovery.

When we heal our pain and our internalized fiction, we will attract what is appropriate in our life at the time, whether it is love, money, or happiness.  Debbie is a great author who speaks from experience instead of a clinical or philosophical point of view.  You have to be willing to look at yourself but through the techniques in her books, the internal mud pies you find can easily turn into pearls.  I recommend her books to anyone.