Everything I Needed to Know I Learned From My Six-Month-Old Awakening To Unconditional Self-Love in Motherhood

by Haulsey, Kuwana; Beckwith, Michael Bernard

• ISBN13: 9781936740536
• ISBN10: 1936740532
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781936740628
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-09-17
• Publisher: Viva Editions
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Summary

There is a tribe in Africa where, the first time a woman leaves home following the confinement period after giving birth, everyone she meets along the road greets her with a sacred song otherwise reserved for warriors returning from battle. She's honored as having lived through a rite of passage that will forever mark her womanhood as abundant and powerful and blessed. She's respected as a fully franchised member of the most ubiquitous and yet most extraordinary group of beings in our collective experience: mothers.

Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned from a Six-Month-Old: Awakening to Unconditional Self Love in Motherhood is an Eat Pray Love for moms. It fuses memoir, spirituality and self-development into the unique perspective that babies are actually extraordinary spiritual teachers who are capable of showing their caregivers the way toward inspired living. Kuwana Haulsey imparts this deeper understanding of a universal truth of love , in which motherhood is explored as a means of waking up to her innate potential for personal transformation.

Author Biography

Kuwana Haulsey is the author of The Red Moon, which was a 2002 finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Born and raised in New York City, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Rutgers University magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Kuwana has led seminars for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation in Washington, D.C., and at Rutgers University. She’s taught writing at UCLA and Agape International and is also an actress currently living in North Hollywood where she co-teaches classes on spirituality with Reverend Michael Beckwith. Michael Bernard Beckwith is an American New Thought minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, CA, a New Thought church with more than 8,000 members. He lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents


Introduction

Lesson One: Finding The Courage to Emerge

Lesson Two: The Gift of Presence

Lesson Three: “If You Are Irritated by Every Rub, How Will You Ever be Polished?”
Choosing Harmony Over Resentment

Lesson Four: A Life of Every Day Miracles: Embracing a Transcendent Vision

Lesson Five: Help! I Look Like Somebody’s Mother: Honoring the Body Temple

Lesson Six: I Want It Now! Surrendering Your Wants, Fulfilling Your Desires

Lesson Seven: When It All Falls Apart: The Art of Joyous Failure

Lesson Eight: Soul Mates and the Language of Inspired Loving

Lesson Nine: Awakening Bliss: Welcoming Flashes of Unexpected Ecstasy

Lesson Ten: The Precursor of the Mirror is the Mother’s Face: Trusting Your Power

Lesson Eleven: Yielding to The Divine Creative Within

Lesson Twelve: Making Time: Kingston and the Lost Art of Putzing

Lesson Thirteen: My Six Month Old is Faster Than I Am: Taking Chances

Lesson Fourteen: Captain Caviar Vs. The Coupon Queen (or Babies Bring Balance and
Abundance… If You Let Them)

Lesson Fifteen: No, You Will Not Find Peace: Learning to Let Peace Find You

Lesson Sixteen: Love is Like Musk…It Attracts Attention

Lesson Seventeen: Celebrate Yourself Exactly Where You Are

Epilogue: Taking the First Steps