Mary O'Malley

Eavan Boland

Paula Meehan

Three Irish Poets

Imagine for a moment that all the pressures in your life were off-no problems to fix, no deadlines to meet, no struggles to overcome. Do you feel that sense of spacious relief? It's not an illusion, teaches Mary O'Malley. It really is possible to live with that profound openness every moment, even while tending to our everyday tasks and obligations. What's in the Way Is the Way is the new book from this highly regarded teacher, offering practical guidance for meeting all of our experience with an abiding sense of ease, trust, and peace of mind. This accessible book is divided into 10 phases, featuring inspiring wisdom and step-by-step exercises to heal the core beliefs that keep you stuck With each chapter, Mary invites you to come into the present and see yourself and your circumstances in a different way-with openness and curiosity, unclouded by struggle, judgment, and fear. Discover why Eckhart Tolle calls Mary O'Malley's work "a treasure of practical wisdom and profound insights, all pointing to one essential Truth: how to awaken into present-moment awareness and live in acceptance of what is."

A Practical Guide for Waking Up to Life

What's in the Way Is the Way

Eckhart Tolle

A creative guide to confronting compulsive behavior observes that controlling behavior does not generally work and recommends instead an engagement with the object of obsession, which will lead to a change in attitudes surrounding it. Original.

A Revolutionary Approach to Self-acceptance and Healing

The Gift of Our Compulsions

De fleste af os har en eller anden form for afhængighed – af sukker, tv, arbejde, motion, shopping, bekymringer, mad, cigaretter, alkohol, stoffer eller andet. Vores instinktive reaktion er ofte, at vi forsøger at bekæmpe og kontrollere afhængigheden, men som regel vender den tilbage – eller der udvikles en ny type afhængighed, som det f.eks. er tilfældet med eksrygere, der erstatter deres cigaretter med mad. Mary O'Malley vælger imidlertid en helt anden tilgang: Afhængighed kan betragtes som en skjult gave, en læremester, der kan vise vejen mod større accept og selvforståelse. Ved at holde op med at bekæmpe det, vi gerne vil ændre, og i stedet indtage en nysgerrig, undersøgende og frem for alt medfølende holdning til afhængigheden, bliver det muligt at lytte til denne del af os selv, der forsøger at kommunikere et vigtigt og positivt budskab. AFHÆNGIGHED – DIN SKJULTE GAVE er en indsigtsfuld selvhjælpsbog med mange praktiske øvelser og enkle teknikker, der viser, hvordan man kan finde fred med sin afhængighed og erstatte håbløshed og kamp med glæde og velvære. Mary O'Malley har i mange år arbejdet som terapeut, underviser og foredragsholder. Hun skriver dels ud fra sit professionelle virke og dels fra sine personlige erfaringer med spiseforstyrrelser.

Din skjulte gave

Afhængighed

Joint Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018. In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O'Malley's sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland's west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and mythical, a trout is seen to 'swallow light through his skin', a wolf 'howls the great open vowel of his need', and in the emptiness where a tree once stood, 'a tree-shaped brightness dances'. Over the course of the collection, O'Malley twins the Irish west coast with the American east coast, Inis Mór with Coney Island, the parish with the metropolis, the pipes with the axe, each offering its own comfort and wonder. Sylvia Plath, Lois Lane and Antigone feature in an unlikely cast of heroines through which O'Malley tests the mythologies of motherhood and femininity ('no mother is ever good enough until she's dead', writes the poet, with characteristic wit). Playing the Octopus is a body of writing buoyed by the redemptive power and sustaining joy of music, and it closes with O'Malley's translations of the Irish poet Seán Ó Ríordáin and the Spaniard Federico García Lorca.

Playing the Octopus

The Magical Forest of Aliveness is a wonderfully wise story which equips the inner child with metaphors to open the way for awakening to one's true nature. It's a sweet, simple, and wise poetic journey into human awakening that calms the mind, warms the heart, and speaks directly to the soul. A marvelous tale about the "stuff no one ever told us," but that would have changed our lives if they had.

A Tale of Awakening

The Magical Forest of Aliveness

To some degree we are all compulsive. Our struggles range from overworrying and overworking to overeating and alcohol and drug abuse. When we realize we are compulsive, our main reaction until now has been to try to control our behavior, but when we try to control our compulsions, they control us. If we do manage to stop one, another always seems to take its place. Over the past three decades, Mary O’Malley has developed a revolutionary approach to healing our compulsions. She gently invites us to be curious about them, to engage them and ask ourselves questions that help us understand our behaviors. She shows us how lasting healing can come from being curious and forgiving rather than controlling and shameful. Compulsions then become our teachers. Her book is filled with new perspectives and simple techniques that anyone can easily grasp.

A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Acceptance and Healing

Belonging to Life is an exploration of becoming awake and present for our lives so that we can know - no matter what we are experiencing, the joy and peace that are our birthright. Through stories, ideas and techniques, it explores how to quiet our minds and open our hearts so we can truly belong to ourselves and to life. Mary O'Malley writes from her own personal experience of awakening, having walked through the darkest of times, transmuting pain and wounding into precious treasure.

Mary O'Malley

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