{"id":523,"date":"2018-01-18T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadowwork.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2018-08-24T12:45:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T18:45:50","slug":"practically-shameless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadowwork.com\/practically-shameless\/","title":{"rendered":"Practically Shameless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE BESTELLING BOOK ABOUT SHADOW WORK\u00ae<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/shadowwork.com\/pshameless.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><i>Practically Shameless: How Shadow Work Helped Me Find My Voice, My Path, and My Inner Gold.<\/i>\u00a0By Alyce Barry.<span id=\"more-3709\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With a Foreword by Shadow Work\u00ae Founder Cliff Barry, Founder of Shadow Work\u00ae. Longmont, CO: Practically Shameless Press, 2008. An uplifting and compassionate guide to transforming your life through Shadow Work\u00ae. Using a story from the author\u2019s life, including a riveting first-person account of Shadow Work\u00ae processes, this life-affirming narrative demonstrates how to honor your life, understand and befriend your resistance, and effect the lasting change you desire. Offers the reader a direct experience of Shadow Work\u00ae.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Practically-Shameless-Shadow-Helped-Voice\/dp\/0979832616\" target=\"_blank\">Available for Kindle from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Practically-Shameless-Shadow-Helped-Voice\/dp\/0979832616\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3710\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/practicallyshameless-large-199x300.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pguyard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/practicallyshameless-large-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.pguyard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/practicallyshameless-large-106x160.jpg 106w, http:\/\/www.pguyard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/practicallyshameless-large.jpg 288w, http:\/\/www.pguyard.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/practicallyshameless-large-106x160@2x.jpg 212w\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-509\" src=\"https:\/\/shadowwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/practicallyshameless-large-199x300-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&gt;&gt;Also available from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B004J8HTEY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon UK<\/a>.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;&gt;Also available for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Practically-Shameless-How-Shadow-Work-Helped-Me-Find-My-Voice-My-Path-and-My-Inner-Gold\/Alyce-Barry\/e\/9780979832659\/?itm=1&amp;USRI=practically+shameless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnes and Noble Nook<\/a>.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;&gt;Also available for Apple iPad at iTunes iBookstore, Apple ID 418821610<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><br clear=\"ALL\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shadowwork.com\/pshameless-audio.html\"><b>Audio book edition<\/b><\/a><b><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shadowwork.com\/pshameless-ebook.html\">E-book editions<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicallyshameless.com\/psbestseller.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A bestseller at Amazon.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Now in its third printing,\u00a0<i>Practically Shameless<\/i>\u00a0is an uplifting and compassionate guide to transforming your life through Shadow Work\u00ae.<\/p>\n<p>Author and Shadow Work\u00ae facilitator\u00a0Alyce Barry\u00a0uses a story from her own life, including a riveting first-person account of her Shadow Work\u00ae processes, to demonstrate how to honor your life, understand and befriend your resistance, and change in a lasting and deeply satisfying way.<\/p>\n<p>The book ends with an exercise that offers a direct experience of Shadow Work\u00ae.\u00a0<i>Practically Shameless<\/i>\u00a0is destined to have an impact on every reader longing for change.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize the truth that you have nothing to regret.<\/li>\n<li>Unearth the meaning of\u2014and positive intensions behind\u2014your resistance.<\/li>\n<li>Discover the treasure buried within your shadow.<\/li>\n<li>Transform your shame and self-blame into compassion and self-acceptance.<\/li>\n<li>Claim the vibrant self that is your birthright.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Published by Practically Shameless Press, books for the general reader offering practical applications for archetypal psychology. Visit\u00a0the Practically Shameless Press website\u00a0for study guides, excerpts and testimonials, future titles, and more.<\/p>\n<p><b>Details:<\/b>\u00a0Paperback, 6\u2033 x 9\u2033, 216 pages, with a Foreword by Shadow Work\u00ae founder\u00a0Cliff Barry. Contains 35 illustrations and photos, an Appendix detailing the Shadow Work\u00ae Model, and an index. Copyright \u00a9 2008 Alyce Barry. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>Read Alyce\u2019s articles about writing the book, previously published in our\u00a0free email newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"ps-synopsis\"><\/a><a name=\"ps-synopsis\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"ps-synopsis\"><\/a><b>SYNOPSIS OF\u00a0<i>PRACTICALLY SHAMELESS<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>As a girl, the author wants to belong in a circle of friends and to live a creative life, but a destructive behavior sabotages her efforts. The pattern persists into adulthood. By the age of forty-four, she is a woman without friends, encased in shame and depression.<\/p>\n<p>A call for help from her brother, Cliff, brings her to a Shadow Work\u00ae weekend workshop, where she learns that there are four kinds of shame. She begins to view her destructive behavior as a four-sided box. As she studies its four walls, she recognizes the box\u2019s origin: it has been her unconscious way of bonding with her hyper-critical father, a WWII veteran suffering from trauma. A memory resurfaces of a painful incident.<\/p>\n<p>Wall by wall, Alyce works to transform the box, facing a risk at every turn. The greatest risk calls forth the part of her that has been sabotaging her efforts to change in order to protect the bond with her father. When this part of her is honored for its role, it becomes her ally. In a touching ceremony, Alyce lets go of her unhealthy way of loving her father and is finally able to change.<\/p>\n<p>When she leads a workshop of her own, Alyce encounters a man who does not believe he has an inner protector. When she honors his skepticism, his protector emerges to tell a moving story of survival. A series of images illustrates how this man learned to resist change and then how the technique of honoring his resistance transforms it into his ally.<\/p>\n<p>The reader is then invited to experience an honoring directly.<\/p>\n<p>Step by step,\u00a0<i>Practically Shameless<\/i>\u00a0illustrates the book\u2019s core concepts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That shame creates \u201cthe box\u201d that we feel trapped in.<\/li>\n<li>That the box is not a mistake but a strategy, designed to protect us from something that would have been even worse than the box.<\/li>\n<li>That a part of us guards the box, keeps us from knowing that it exists, and resists our every effort to change.<\/li>\n<li>That \u201cthinking outside the box\u201d is merely flipping into an opposite strategy and changes nothing fundamental.<\/li>\n<li>That we inevitably flip back because the box\u2019s reasons for existing have not changed.<\/li>\n<li>That the box has four distinct walls, which were at one time open portals to our Divine potential.<\/li>\n<li>That Shadow Work\u00ae transforms the walls back into portals and the box into a gift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Appendix explains the Shadow Work\u00ae Model and describes the sixteen different kinds of boxes.<\/p>\n<p>A notes section adds explanation that would otherwise interrupt the main narrative.<\/p>\n<p>copyright \u00a9 2007-2017 Alyce Barry. 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