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  • How to Find Your Way Back to Connection
  • Written by: Teal Swan
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  • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (59 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

Following in the footsteps of the success of The Completion Process, best-selling author and modern spiritual leader Teal Swan offers an in-depth exploration and understanding of loneliness. Drawing on her extraordinary healing technique, the Connection Process, Teal offers a way to experience connection once again.

Loneliness is reaching endemic proportions in our society, reflected by rising suicide rates and increased mental illness. Now, more than ever, we need to find a way to connect. Loneliness is a feeling of separation or isolation; it is not necessarily the same as the physical state of being alone. This book is for people who suffer from loneliness, the kind that cannot be solved by simply being around other people. Their aloneness is a deeply embedded pattern that is both negative and painful; it is often fueled by trauma, loss, addiction, grief, and a lack of self-esteem and insecurity. 

In The Anatomy of Loneliness, Teal identifies the three pillars or qualities of loneliness: separation, shame, and fear, and goes on to share her revolutionary technique, the Connection Process, a form of intuitive journeying, usually involving two people, a "receiver" and a "journeyer". Through a series of exercises, each person experiences "walls" and "blockages"; as they move through the process, both participants face their fears, learning from these to reach a place of unconditional love and acceptance.

©2018 Teal Swan (P)2019 Tantor

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Teal Swan gifts our world with this book

This is not an understatement. I wish I could describe how helpful this book is in looking at my relationships with people. I’m listening to this again now and making notes about things and people. It’s my study and fills me with hope and love.

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Thank you teal swan!

this is the best book I've ever read! ❤😭❤
this information will change my life 🙏

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This is an important book for all humans

Our world needs this kind of information to be shared so we can all do our bit to heal and to love deeper.
Teal Swan, Thank you.
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Changed my life

In a time of darkness, this book opened my mind, heart and soul to the path of self healing. Anyone who has struggled with emotional pain and suffering would be enlightened in reading and absorbing this book.

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An important message with poor execution.

I started listening to this book with high hopes however I found some of the information inside to be rather vague in nature and quite unrelatable all together. I do believe this book touches on important issues, many of which I struggle with myself however I find the examples she brings up and the way in which she discusses things to be quite unrelatable. To top it all off I find her reading of the material to be hard to listen to over the long-term as she tends to be kind of monotone in execution and it's difficult for myself (this is a biased review after all) to pay attention after the first 10-ish minutes. I have not read any of her other material and I'm unfamiliar with the author as a whole and perhaps as a male I am not her target audience, however this is my opinion.

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Tremendous wisdom!!

This book is truly amazing, capturing deep truths so eloquently. I will be listening to this book again and again. I find Teal's words of deep wisdom so empowering, so nourishing, so necessary to human ascension.
I had many aha moments while listening to this book " The Anatomy of Loneliness".
I highly recommend this book.
Thank you Teal for the work you do to aid in healing humanity. <3

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Icky

I was disturbed by the author’s grandiosity. One red flag was her claim that she was offering a “perfect” solution to life’s ills, particularly loneliness, and that once you understood what she was offering, you would never be lonely again. Spiritual mission accomplished! The spiritual concepts are drawn largely from Buddhism and repackaged as her own wisdom. As she explained the dysfunctional dynamics operating in many gurus, I got the uncomfortable impression that she was describing herself. There are other books on this topic that don’t require the reader to take Teal Swan on as their guru. I’d suggest reading those instead.

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The anatomy of loneliness

Great if you are looking to understand yourself and your relationship more! I will read it again and take new notes

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