The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFeatured on SUPER SOUL PODCAST hosted by Oprah Winfrey. Too often we've been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn't true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You were created to flourish. In this game-changing book, trauma therapist and mental health expert Dr. Anita Phillips reveals how embracing emotion is the key to living your most powerful life. Just as gardens thrive in good ground, the abundant life you've been seeking can only be grown in the soil of your heart.Blending faith, the latest discoveries in neurobiology, and her own research and work as a licensed therapist, Dr. Anita shows you how to cultivate a state of emotional well-being that can:
- strengthen your body and reverse the effects of trauma, calm anxiety and renew your mind, andunleash a new level of spiritual power in your life.
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This is my second time diving into this book. I plan to study thoroughly this time around with other ladies. Knowledge, deliverance, healing, and wholeness are goals for us. It has truly been a blessing.
This book was truly a transformational read! Infused with profound psychological insights, rich scriptural perspectives, and practical tools, it stands out as a mustard in the realm of self-improvement literature. Each page offers a blend of wisdom and actionable guidance, making it an invaluable resource for personal growth and spiritual development. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking profound transformation and lasting change in their lives.
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The Garden Within by Dr. Anita Phillips is such a powerful read. It is a book that commands you to stop and think, take stock of your life and your needs, and listen to your body and embrace your emotions. Dr. Phillips brilliantly compares the body and our emotions to a garden that needs to be tended to in order to grow. Her biblically-based insights encourages us to lean into our emotions in order to live a more fulfilling life, to have a more fulfilling relationship with God.
“Your emotional well-being won’t affect how God shows up for you, but it might affect how you show up for God…” this quote from Dr. Phillips beautifully sums up her overall message. The Garden Within is a book to not be read in one sitting but should be referred back to time and time again.
Reviewed by TyaNeka Edwards.
2. It’s been quite some time since I’ve had to pull out my highlighter and pen to take notes and emphasize certain passages while I’m reading…
The Garden Within was a lesson, and I was the student following along and taking notes. We are allowed to experience every emotion, when and however it comes to us. God allows us to have that full range of emotions because that is part of the human experience.
This isn’t my typical genre to read but I enjoyed the lesson, the metaphors, and the use of science and scripture to provide us with the tools to cultivate our own gardens.
This was a timely message, as seasonal depression typically has me feeling every emotion possible. This book reminded me that my body, rather my garden, was made for every cycle and every season. Rather it be nurturing and giving extra care to my greenery during those times or continuing to fortify and fertilize my existence with God’s word until it is time for me to bloom again, I enjoyed all of the reminders from the author to tend to my garden within.
Review by Fallon Vaughn
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