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Julia received the call every parent dreads: her daughter Barbara has been killed in a car accident. Still reeling from her loss months later, Julia embarks on a fascinating journey into her inner world of metaphors, uncovering wounds both new and old that she must heal before she can embrace living again.
Read the actual transcripts of Julia’s twelve sessions with her counselor Gina Campbell, whose comments from the facilitator’s chair reveal how uncovering the metaphors that deepen Julia’s self-exploration open her to new possibilities and healing. Campbell uses Clean Language—a questioning method developed by innovative coach and counselor David Grove that gives voice to the subconscious mind's healing wisdom. A deep respect for Julia’s self-directed journey shines through Campbell’s patient questions that lead to surprisingly profound discoveries.
Each chapter of Hope in a Corner of My Heart includes an activity with the same Clean Language questions used to guide Julia so you can take your own journey to get to better know your best self.

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Santé et bien-être

Développement personnel

Santé mentale & traumatisme

Santé mentale

Personal Growth

David Grove

Clean Language

Self-help

développement personnel

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Publié par	Balboa Press
Date de parution	25 août 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798765227909
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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ALSO BY GINA CAMPBELL
Panning for Your Client’s Gold:
12 Lean Clean Language Processes
Mining Your Client’s Metaphors:
A How-To Workbook on Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling
Basics Part One: Facilitating Clarity
Mining Your Client’s Metaphors:
A How-To Workbook on Clean Language and Symbolic Modeling
Basics Part Two: Facilitating Change
Hope IN A CORNER OF MY Heart

A HEALING JOURNEY THROUGH THE DREAM-LOGICAL WORLD OF INNER METAPHORS

GINA CAMPBELL

Copyright © 2022 Gina Campbell.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 09/26/2022
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE A Little Green Plant
CHAPTER TWO Trapped Between Self and Black
CHAPTER THREE The Midwife of Flowers
CHAPTER FOUR A Balloon to Lead Me
CHAPTER FIVE The Fireman
CHAPTER SIX The Desert Wakes Up
CHAPTER SEVEN The Peasant Girl
CHAPTER EIGHT Tinkerbell’s Light
CHAPTER NINE Blue Fabric on a Gray Clothesline
CHAPTER TEN The Submarine
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Aircraft Carrier
CHAPTER TWELVE I am the River and the Stream

EPILOGUE
DISCOVER YOURSELF WITH CLEAN LANGUAGE
MORE ABOUT CLEAN LANGUAGE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
Discovering what you don’t know you know can change everything.

What if you were to find out that you can have a calm sea to surround your heart and gently lull it with lapping waves when it gets agitated? What if there was a fountain in your gut that sprays the Water of Life, connecting you always with the energy of Source? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a switch just behind your right ear that you could flip to keep the knowing of your head, heart, and gut flowing, so that all three would contribute to your decision making?

Hidden below your conscious awareness are metaphors like these, metaphors that influence how you experience the world and handle what life brings. Your feelings, your thoughts, your actions, your responses to what happens each day are influenced by these metaphors. And you created them. Unconsciously, when you encountered something challenging in the past, you selected a metaphor that captured what the experience was like. Based on the logic of how these symbols function (how waves lap, fountains spray, and switches turn things on and off), you filed away some lessons as to how to respond the next time you face some similar situation.

It doesn’t matter if you are aware of your internal metaphors or not. They silently direct what you do. They determine the patterns your mind/body system follows.

And this can be a good thing. If you chose an appropriate metaphor based on an accurate reading of the situation and came up with a successful strategy to handle it, the metaphor would support you well. A calming sea or a handy switch could be just the ticket.

But sometimes the metaphors you chose to guide your reactions and choices were based on a misunderstanding or incomplete information. Perhaps you were young and what seemed like a good solution for coping has turned out not to be so good after all. For example, you may have had to “hide inside a suit of armor” at one time in your life. But your circumstances are different now, and you no longer do. Yet here you are, subconsciously closing yourself off from the people around you. It may be time to update your metaphor by taking off the armor.

You may not know about your internal metaphors, but what you will discover in this book is that you can get to know them. And once you do, you can change them if they need to be changed. You can create new metaphors to refashion the mistaken ones and further strengthen or improve the helpful ones. These new metaphors will become the ones that guide you going forward. They will be the ones influencing your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

If you change your metaphors, you can transform your self.

As a counselor and life coach, I help people discover and explore their metaphors. The questions I ask and the strategies I use to determine what to direct clients to find out more about are from a counseling and coaching process called Clean Language. The method was first developed by counseling psychologist David Grove in the 1980s as he explored ways to work with trauma survivors. He questioned the standard treatments of the time that often re-traumatized clients by asking them to revisit the very events that had undone them in the first place. He wondered, is there a gentler and more effective way to help people heal? Ultimately, he concluded that the key to change lies in internalized metaphors.
David Grove upended much of what I learned in my graduate school counseling program and challenged me to ask some fundamental questions, ones that no professor ever encouraged me to ask. How do people establish their patterns? What needs to happen for people to change? Do people have experience and wisdom hidden within themselves that can foster shifts and solutions that endure? How can people access this inner wisdom? What might it look and sound like?

As I experienced Clean Language sessions for myself and as I used it to facilitate others’ explorations, I came to fully appreciate that Grove was on to something important: our metaphors are not just helpful communication or artistic expressions. They play a much more fundamental and indispensable role.

Clean Language questions enable our conscious and subconscious parts to communicate with each other in their mutual language— metaphor. The parts can then use their combined wisdom to get greater clarity about who we are, what we deeply want and need, and how to get our mind/body systems in balance.

While a Clean Language session cannot rewrite our histories or change any reality over which we have no control, our internal metaphors can make a profound difference to our sense of well-being, resiliency, and wholeness. With the right internalized metaphors, we can meet the challenges of our lives with greater confidence and ease because the metaphors affect the way we interpret and respond to our experiences. They can help us adapt our strategies for living with the past, for managing in the moment, and for determining our futures to best support happy, healthy, and meaningful lives.

Now, fifteen years after first discovering Clean Language, I can say confidently that Grove’s unique way of working with internal metaphors has made a profound difference for my clients. They are able to self-explore deeply enough to discover what they didn’t know they knew. Clients often remark how, even in a first session, they feel they “get to the core” of their issues in a way no other approach has ever been able to reach. Often, they say something along the lines of, “I can’t really put it into words, but something has shifted. I’m different. I’m different with other people. Somehow things are easier now.” They are wowed by the richness, complexity, and wisdom of their inner worlds. They are completely convinced, as am I: their metaphors matter.

Julia’s Sessions

If you are curious about the possibility of deep change, this book gives you a front-row seat as Julia discovers her internalized metaphors and what needs to change for her mind/body system to regain its equilibrium. I had twelve counseling sessions with her over the course of a year and a half. Julia is not her real name, and the names of her family members, her profession, and the details of her family members’ lives have all been tweaked to protect her privacy. But all of Julia’s words in the sessions are her own.

Like a narrator in a series of short stories, Julia takes us along as she takes a step forward in one session, a step back in the next, or to the side to some other mysterious place. Where is she going? Guided by some intuitive knowing, she is taking care of all the parts of her inner self as it rebalances after a huge shock sent her reeling. Her stories o