From Pain to Love: How I overcame suffering by learning to love myself - Paperback

by Ivana Kuzmanovic (Author)

Readers call this book their "bible", underline and read several times; professionals - such as psychiatrists, psychotherapists and life coaches are willing to recommend it to their clients.

This book heals, inspires us, gives hope, strengthens our faith and supports us. It teaches us and leads, but also gives shelter.

"Starting from touching personal experiences, emotional downs and seemingly hopeless situations, Ivana Kuzmanovic, leads us through transformation processes in a warm and intimate manner, all the way to healing and achieving the ultimate well-being, i.e. the state of Love. "It is Love we strive for and know it must exist, though sometimes seems unreal and unattainable. It is Love that is the source of serenity, joy, happiness, harmony and creation. It is Love that gives purpose and lasts forever".

"The most important step on the Path of Love that will take us to complete love is to learn how to love ourselves. Though it might at first glance seem to us that there is nothing simpler than that, we need courage, knowledge and skills to achieve self-love." Bojana Glusac, a Psychotherapist and a Paediatrician.

Extensive knowledge and experience shown through personal examples, exercises and theoretical explanations of psychological phenomena have made this book inspiring and healing. For some people it represents an initial spark for a change, and for the others strengthening their faith and support, and for those who are already on the way - additional energy and the feeling of belonging.

The Study on Love "From Pain to Love - How I Overcame Suffering by Learning to Love Myself" is divided into several thematic sections:

- The Path of Love - describing the difference between love with the lower case "l" and the capital "L", i.e. the difference between conscious and unconscious love;

- Misconceptions about love - what we all think that love is, and it actually isn't; and exactly these beliefs force us to look for and see it where there is none;

- an obstacle on the Path of Love - describing various manifestations of fears and ways how to overcome them, which leads to increased self-awareness and the development of self-love;

- Helpers on the Path of Love: faith, gratitude, discipline, presence, acceptance, forgiveness, etc.

The focus is at the point where roads take us to three directions: psychotherapy, spirituality and experience. This is also their crossing and connecting point to the whole which there is no fulfilled life without. Ivana's Emotional Energo-Therapy and Transformation is precisely created on this basis, it is a coaching technique combining psychotherapeutic knowledge, coaching skills and experience in working with energies.

The ease of writing and spontaneous humour make this, partly a romantic study on love, smooth, vital and available. This way not only do we get suggestions of possible solutions but also indirectly learn what the basis of a good relationship and every change is

Author Biography

"Everyone would want to be like you", said my Godmother thinking of my successful career as the bestselling author of popular psychology in Serbia, my bestselling novels, thousands of thankful people who used my knowledge and skills of a Life Coach, Reiki Master and Teacher of Meditation; this also refers to my health, physical appearance and glow in the eyes reflecting on my inner serenity and joy. She also thought of my beautiful family, gorgeous son who I gave birth to at the age of 46, and husband who loves me, supports and encourages.

I replied to her: "Everyone can be like me, if they want. But it takes into account all that I had to go through to get where I am. And that is something that many people wouldn't want." This refers to years, rather decades of my inadequacy, disturbance, ignorance, suffering, wrong decisions and wanderings.

With this introduction I want to tell you that everything I am and I enjoy today is a result of great work, learning, and most of all - the most miscellaneous, often painful experiences that shaped me, polished and gave wings. I started to shine and learned how to fly. I realized that I could be the light at the exit of the tunnel for others, soothe the suffering, accelerate development processes and transfer techniques, skills and knowledge for a better and more conscious life.

Knowledge and experience that one cannot transfer or share with others are futile and deprived of meaning. Therefore, by some inner call and God's foreknowledge, I was more or less forced to write about everything, give workshops, conferences, lectures, debates and seminars.

I have written eight books, all of which are bestsellers, and a research on Love "From Pain to Love - How I Overcame Suffering by Learning to Love Myself" which is the bestselling book in popular psychology in former Yugoslavia. "Book of Personal Changes" is following in its footsteps; it is unique in the world by the contents and interactive cards to work with the unconscious. My books are often recommended by psychotherapists, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists.

Guidelines for emotional and spiritual maturation, inspiration and impulse for new insights, readers often get in my novels ("Lemur's Love", "Less Than Three", "Amor Porteño" and "In The Name of Love"), where the identification with the main characters is spontaneous and easy, and a message strong and awakening...

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