Detox Your Heart

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Windhorse Publications, 2005 - Religion - 184 pages

Anger, hatred, resentment, fear, jealousy, greed. Tough emotions, but ones that most of us experience at one time or another. This gritty exploration of such "toxins" helps us to recognize the negative emotions and mental states we can absorb consciously--or unconsciously--and suggests creative ways of working with them. With short exercises for anyone to use that draw on Buddhist teachings on self-love, mindfulness, and more.

Valerie Mason-John is a former journalist and a trainer in anger management who speaks openly from her personal experience of conflict, anger, and fear. Also the author of the novel Borrowed Body (Serpent's Tail, 2005), which draws from personal life history of being a foster child, black, lesbian--and a woman finding her way.

About the author (2005)

Valerie Mason-John (aka Queenie) was born in Cambridge in 1962. She has worked as an international correspondent, and has contributed to the Guardian, The Voice and the Morning Star. Winner of the Windrush Achievement Award 2000, she also recently won first prize for the Shorelines/Cultureword First Chapter. She lives in South London and works as an anger management therapist.

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