Contents

Acknowledgements

Prologue

What’s Important?

9

Creating Exact Moments Of Healing

Creative Participation

Chapter One

Death As The Great Advisor

20

My Style

With Compassion

No Pathology

Chapter Two

What Do You Need?

34

The Wisdom Of The Organism
Awareness – Here And Now
The Awareness And Contact Cycle
The Figure - Awakening To The Now
Energetic Formation - The Body Responds
The Sacredness Of Wanting And Needing    
Confusing/Misreading Needs              
Your History Of Wanting and Needing    
Contact - Awareness Into Action
Healthy Contact
Movement And Expression
Asking For What You Want
Receptivity
The Satiation Signal
Integration
Completion/Closure
Opening To New Experience
Navigating Full Circle/You’ve Done It!

Chapter Three

Potholes On The Road To Provision

80

Unfinished Business
Getting Stuck
Resistances To Authentic Contact
Good Medicine

Chapter Four

Creating Exact Moments Of Healing

94

Life Moments – Hurtful And Healing
Configuration Of Needs
Creating Exact Moments Of Healing
Professionally Designed Moments    
The Discovery Process
The Power Of The Group
Music
What’s Important?
Taking Responsibility
Forgiveness
Rewriting History
Spontaneous Moments Of Healing
Self-Directed Moments Of Healing
Receive The Gifts
The Healing Journey

Chapter Five

Mack – Welcome Home Journey

140

Chapter Six

Robin – Facing The Pain

162

Chapter Seven

Charlie – Sharing The Pain

176

Chapter Eight

Jack – Revisiting The Assumptions

188

Chapter Nine

Teresa – Breaking Into Aliveness

208

Chapter Ten

Lisa – Come Let Me Love You

220

Chapter Eleven

Marisa – Unraveling Family Secrets

236

Chapter Twelve

Anna - Creating An Authentic, Loving Death

252

Chapter Thirteen

Being Alive And Whole

266

Afterword

Gordon Wheeler – Changing The Past

270

Appendix

Jack’s Letters

278