Amy Poole - Life Coach

“Unlike what our ego may believe it is not up to us to repair and transform ourselves.” - Don Riso

The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Riso
“Unlike what our ego may believe it is not up to us to repair and transform ourselves.”
Another great book on the enneagram. Unlike the last one I quoted this one goes into great detail. If you seriously want to dive deep into this topic, this is a great book. It also comes from a different perspective so using both books gives you a broad look at the enneagram.

Time Cure by Phillip Zimbardo
“Your past is not your potential.”
In this book he shows how changing your time perspective can help with PTSD and depression. He maps out the steps and gives sound advice based on his research and his practice.

“You need to stop the rush of your daily existence to determine whether other paths may be right for you.” - Phillip Zimbardo

The Time Paradox by Phillip Zimbardo
“You need to stop the rush of your daily existence to determine whether other paths may be right for you.”
Zimbardo’s book talks about how much our time perspective affects our lives. He has a time perspective test to take on line. And the book goes into detail on how we can balance our time perspective based on the results we get from the test. I found it incredibly intriguing and very practical.

“How easily we are seduced by the fantasy that we are in control, that we were ever in control,

“that the things we could or should have done or said have the power, if only we had done or said them,

to cure pain to erase suffering, to vanquish loss.” - Edith Eger

The Choice by Edith Eger
“How easily we are seduced by the fantasy that we are in control, that we were ever in control, that the things we could or should have done or said have the power, if only we had done or said them, to cure pain to erase suffering, to vanquish loss.”
This is a memoir along the lines of Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. She refers to him in the book as they both lived through the Jewish concentration camps. A very interesting memoir but the highlight for me was her take on our fantasy of being in control.

“Invite the uneasiness in. Celebrate it. Make peace with it. Resist filling that space with shadow comfort.” Jennifer Louden

Comfort Secrets for Busy Women by Jennifer Louden
“Invite the uneasiness in. Celebrate it. Make peace with it. Resist filling that space with shadow comfort.”
Although not the whole book, she does focus on shadow comforts – anything we use to help us feel better but not actually what we need at the time. Her perspective is one of encouragement.

“Balance is never coming home to roost until we stop looking for her outside of ourselves and start creating it from our essence.”