University Professors Press is pleased to announce the release of The Love Outraged Workbook by Franklin Sollars and Jamie Sharpe. The Love Outraged Workbook is a follow up to Sollar’s book, Love Outraged and the Liberation of the Core Self. The book includes a number of practical activities that individuals can utilized toward healing and growth. You can also purchase this as part of the Love Outraged Bundle.
This workbook is a guidebook with instruction, meditations, and activities designed to help liberate the greater self in the personality from the shrouds of the character faults and shadow elements of the personality. It is not a simple positive psychology of believing in the good, suggesting you simply visualize a positive state and everything will be alright. It is not a way to bypass one’s dark side to just be “happy.” It engages one’s shadow to transform it. The suggested exercises bring out the darkness so it can be worked with through self-acceptance, self-awareness, and self-confrontation. There is no suggestion to go around one’s troubles, but encouragement and guidance to go through them.
The greater self-seeking liberation—also known as the higher or core self—is the fountain of the inner wisdom, empathy, vitality, and inner peace we all desire at deep levels of our personality if not the conscious self. Using depth psychology, including humanistic and existential foundations, as well as elements of the mystical schools of the Kabala, Gnosticism, Buddhism, and Sufism, the work points to an unfolding of one’s loving, altruistic, and ecstatic life force that allows one to live creatively, fully, and generously. Illustrating a map of our inner landscape, The Love Outraged Workbook provides a path to find one’s way to the unified consciousness of our center.
Dr. Sollar’s and Jamie Sharp deliver an extremely helpful and insightful approach to better understand our self and how the self interacts and relates to the world around us. The reader is given actionable steps and is easily guided through a process of growth that will empower all readers toward living a more full and authentic life.
Ryan G. Beale, MA
CEO/Founder of Therapy.Live
I am delighted with your beautiful synthesis of depth psychology and metaphysical perspectives. You provide basic and clearly stated concepts along with useful and relatable examples. This workbook provides the fundamentals of inner work. A invaluable tool for those already engaged with in depth therapy and those who may embark on their own self-therapy.
I salute your careful, meticulous and comprehensive cartography of the terrain of the inner psyche. As well as for the exercises and meditations that bridge the esoteric and the practical.
Brian O’Donnell, PhD
Psychotherapist in private practice, Ann Arbor, MI
Instructor at Pathwork
The Love Outraged Workbook offers readers an experiential way to interact with concepts and processes outlined in the previously published Love Outraged and the Liberation of the Core Self. With deceptively simple exercises, Sollars invites readers to break the Promethean chains of self-alienation by identifying and befriending the thoughts, feelings, and defenses that contribute to estrangement from the Core Self. Accessible to clinicians and laypeople alike, Love Outraged Workbook is more than a workbook; it is a map of the human condition, a user friendly and accessible path home to the deepest center of being.
Rev. Dr. Betz King
Psychologist, Western Mystery Tradition Priestess, Reiki Master