DO YOU WANT TO BE TRULY FREE FROM YOUR COMPULSIONS?
P.R. Contact: Kim Corbin

We compulsively eat, diet, work, shop, surf the Internet, drink, gamble.  All we have to do is to get control —right?  Wrong!  It is reported that 95-98% of all weight that is lost on diets is gained back plus some within a year.  Control clearly doesn’t work, but there is good news.  There is another way to work with compulsions, a way that not only heals them, but also heals us to our core. Over the past three decades, Mary O’Malley has developed a revolutionary approach to self-acceptance and healing of our compulsions.  Her book is filled with new perspectives and simple techniques that we can use even in the middle of our busy lives.  The fundamental concepts in this book are easily accessed in the midst of any experience through four simple questions that can heal our compulsions, and at the same time heal the underlying emotional pain.

Mary reminds us that in the light of our compassionate attention, our compulsions not only lose their power over us, but they also become a vehicle for transformation.  As we learn to respond rather than react, bringing curiosity and compassion to our immediate experience, we transform the compulsive holdings in our minds, bodies, and hearts.  We then become fully mature, responsive and vibrantly alive human  beings.  One of Mary’s owns students put it this way: “I have experienced nothing more agonizing in my life than being enslaved by my compulsive eating. The techniques in Mary O’Malley’s book gently untangled the web of self-hatred, guilt, and shame that fueled this enslavement. Using her method to move beyond struggling with our compulsions, we discover the self-love, tenderness, and mercy, which release us from the grip of obsession, creating the true and permanent healing for which we long. It really works!”

About the Author

Mary O’Malley is a speaker, group facilitator, and counselor in private practice. For over 30 years she has been developing a transformational approach to working with everything that keeps us from being present and fully embracing and enjoying our lives.  She offers counseling, ongoing groups, and spiritual retreats with a focus on healing one’s core issues through her unique process of learning to accept and relate to our compulsions rather than trying to control or avoid them. Mary O’Malley lives in Kirkland, Washington. Her website is: www.maryomalley.com.

THE GIFT OF OUR COMPULSIONS
A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Acceptance and Healing
By Mary O’Malley
Foreword by: Eckhart Tolle
Publication Date: October 5, 2004
Price: $14.95 , Trade Paperback, 352  pages, 6 x 9”
ISBN:  1-57731-470-0 Publisher: New World Library