When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom
Exciting News: When Wisdom Arrives Audiobook & Special Edition Release!
I’m thrilled to share some exciting updates about “When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Worthiness to Freedom.”
The audiobook is now available on over 120 platforms worldwide, including easily accessible sites like Spotify, Audible, and Lantern. In addition, Bedside Reading is featuring When Wisdom Arrives as a complimentary gift in luxe hotels throughout the US. They are featuring my book on their audio venues and in their print media.
Thank you, Bedside Reading and Muse Literary, for this incredible honor. Here’s the new cover:
“If thoughts and feelings were TRUTH, they would be called Facts.” In the pages of this fable and companion memoir, we learn about TRUTH and the simple way we can transcend the lie of unworthiness. Imagined unworthiness shows up as a tyranny of thoughts and feelings that cause psychological suffering.
How this book came about…
When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom is a memoir fable about the worst and the best of my life. In 2018, we got a call that our beloved 39 year old daughter was no longer alive. I remember thinking, “What? This can’t be real. Did the policeman just say it was too late to revive her?”
Melissa had just sent me a text that said, “Mom, always shine with your full brilliance no matter what!” My husband and I and Melissa’s sister went through exactly what you would imagine: soul searing pain, intermingled with shock. Sometimes we had to pinch ourselves to make sure we were not in a joint nightmare. How could this be happening to people who had been so lucky in life?
However, I never lost my connection to Melissa after she died. Actually, the contrary happened. My life seemed to be catapulted out of where I had settled, a happy retirement from being a psychotherapist for over 30 years. More and more I was internally pushed from a private life walking the Camino and doing artistic adventures to working with people again. I was being asked to teach and speak to people about how I stepped out of psychological suffering into acceptance of what happened. What I learned from my journey into pain is that Acceptance of what happens to us, allows us a different experience that I call living in a Radical Now. The Radical Now is free from the looping thoughts and feelings that keep us struck. My stepping out of retirement led to teaching more Master Enneagram classes (see my offerings), speaking engagements, and finally the memoir fable.
Imagined Unworthiness Quiz and Gift
I was prompted to write the book when I noticed in one of my private meetings that people struggled with the language of the Non-Duality Direct Path. In When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom, I use none of the usual words to reveal how the main character was able to find her okayness from feeling unacceptable.
In the book, Wisdom shares a new idea with the main character that if thoughts and feelings were truth, we would call them facts. Both feelings and thoughts change, but there is something within us that is always present to notice the changes. Through our upbringing we have been taught to focus on the past and future. But, freedom comes to us only in the NOW.
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Rosalyn Rouke lives the message of her work. She brings wisdom, peace and game changing ways of looking at the world. Like a beautiful mountain, she leaves audiences expanded, centered and anchored to their sacredness and oneness.
Listeners you may be in for the biggest treat you’ve ever had. Rosalyn is amazing and special and wonderful! Her book is a precious and a valuable read.
Rosalyn’s use of her voice to bring the characters to life is in perfect alignment with the spoken words. The nuanced vocal delivery of the characters in the audio version of When Wisdom Arrives evoke a beautiful emotional connection for the reader.
Rosalyn Rourke breaks new ground in the understanding of feelings, and of the availability of happiness in spite of grief. It’s the happiness of our “true self” that lies under the surface of all of our lives.The world needs to hear her fresh take on this subject, born from her own first-hand experience and her deep insight into that of others. Rourke understands that the “stages of grief” are far less set in stone than we’ve imagined them to be.
Rosalyn has been a featured speaker at my Sundays with Spirit service, delivering her inspirational talk on at least six occasions. Without exception, she has garnered glowing reviews from the audience. Her delivery is not only articulate and compelling but also deeply authentic, making her talks incredibly relatable.
When Rosalyn talks about grief and death or actually anything, people are riveted. Her lyrical voice and laser-like delivery of content captivates audiences. Rosalyn’s smile and energy from freedom cannot be faked!
I love parables because these simple stories shape our beliefs, challenge our perceptions, and inspire us to see the world in new ways.
These were my top 5 Parables: The Motive, The Richest Man in Babylon,The 5 AM Club,The Bible, The Alchemist. But now I have a 6th: When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness To Freedom by Rosalyn Rourke, M.S.W.
Imagine if wisdom wasn’t just a concept, or a character in a book, but a real person. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Rosalyn, and she possesses an extraordinary gift for teaching. Her patience, insight, and profound understanding of life and our choices are unparalleled. Her story sheds light on how family dynamics shape our professional and personal relationships.
