Awaken

Awaken

by Joseph Jaworski, Rajendra Sisodia
Released April 2023
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781119789192

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Book description

Awaken: A Journey to Purpose, Wholeness, Healing, and Impact

Awaken delivers a contemporary and accessible guide to how each of us can experience a life of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in a world that is rife with anxiety, depression, and addiction. Drawing on the distinguished author's lifetime of accumulated insights and experience, Awaken guides readers on a journey to achieve complete alignment between who they are, what they say, what they do, and how they relate to others.

People are traumatized and polarized the world over. By healing our traumas, uniting the polarities in our lives, and connecting to our deepest purpose, we can attain personal power and amplify our positive impact on the world. Most people have chosen not to deal with their trauma; they conceal it, numb it, and relive it. Through the prism of the author's life journey, Awaken shows us how to mine the ups and downs of our lives to experience "post-traumatic growth."

Written for anyone with even a passing interest in improving their inner life and making a difference in the world, Awaken provides proven tools and practical advice that allow readers to know themselves, love themselves, be themselves, and express themselves. Readers will learn how to grow their personal power by building self-trust, cultivating presence, drawing healthy boundaries, leaning into necessary conflict, and challenging orthodoxies. Awaken will help readers see their lives differently in order to transform their experience of living.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Foreword
  6. Prologue
  7. 1 Roots
    1. Life Without Papa
    2. From Kesur to Canada
    3. Papa Returns
    4. Reflections
  8. 2 Changing of the Guard
    1. A Whole New World
    2. Bewildered in Barbados
    3. Serene in Salinas
    4. Confused in Canada
    5. Reflections
  9. 3 Return of the Native
    1. The Ratlam “Suar” System
    2. Objects of Curiosity
    3. Hard Landing
    4. School of Horrors
    5. Innocence Lost
    6. Home Base Indore
    7. Reflections
    8. Note
  10. 4 Return to Kesur
    1. The Darker Side of Kesur
    2. Trickle‐Down Tyranny
    3. Reflections
  11. 5 No Time to Dream
    1. My Luck Runs Out
    2. Grim Survivor
    3. Political Awakening
    4. Bombay Bound
    5. Back to the Future
    6. Reflections
    7. Notes
  12. 6 New York, New York
    1. Marketing Mecca – or Mayhem?
    2. Ivy League Ivory Tower
    3. An Accidental Academic
    4. Dowry Drama
    5. Dissertation Dilemma
    6. Escape from New York
    7. Reflections
    8. Notes
  13. 7 Boston Blues
    1. Out of Africa
    2. An Unblessed Marriage
    3. Nightmare on Commonwealth Avenue
    4. Reflections
    5. Note
  14. 8 A New Beginning
    1. The “Prodigal” Son Returns
    2. A Mentor at Last
    3. Standing Up for Myself
    4. A Growing Family
    5. Awakening My Creative Side
    6. Reflections
  15. 9 Back to Boston
    1. New Millennium, New Challenges
    2. My Winter of Discontent
    3. Good Thing, Bad Thing – Who Knows?
    4. Following My Heartbreak
    5. The Shame of Marketing?
    6. Reflections
  16. 10 Purpose in the Poconos
    1. Tears of Joy
    2. Metamorphosis
    3. Becoming an Instrument of Evolution
    4. Renegotiating a Relationship
    5. Doubling Down
    6. Sliding Doors
    7. Birthing a Movement
    8. Growing the Movement
    9. Reflections
    10. Notes
  17. 11 Searching for Inner Peace
    1. Seeking Spiritual Solace
    2. Could I Be Happy?
    3. Growing … and Sinking
    4. Reflections
    5. Notes
  18. 12 Conscious Awakening
    1. The Wise Women
    2. Twin Bombshells
    3. No More Denial
    4. Reflections
    5. Notes
  19. 13 Healing the Father Wound
    1. The Father Wound
    2. My Arc with My Father
    3. Seeing the Whole Picture
    4. Innocence Lost – and Reclaimed
    5. Grief or Relief?
    6. A Two‐Time Destroyer of Families?
    7. Healing My Son's Father Wound
    8. Last Words
    9. Reflections
    10. Notes
  20. 14 Honoring My Mother and Becoming Whole
    1. Who Was Usha?
    2. Portrait of a Marriage
    3. Passages
    4. Bringing My Mother to My Father
    5. Reflections
  21. 15 Discoveries
    1. Stay True to Yourself
    2. Be Open to New Adventures
    3. Be Your Own Best Friend and Coach
    4. Challenge Orthodoxies
    5. Choose Your Life
    6. Embrace Seeming Opposites
    7. Acknowledge and Heal Your Traumas
    8. Be a Peaceful Warrior for Truth and Love
    9. Stay Awake!
    10. Notes
  22. Epilogue: Healing the Patriarchy
    1. The Need to Heal Kesur
    2. My Duty and Destiny
    3. A Healing Circle
    4. The Path Ahead
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. About the Author
  25. Index
  26. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Awaken
  • Author(s): Joseph Jaworski, Rajendra Sisodia
  • Release date: April 2023
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781119789192