The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begin by Dr. Anita Phillips Book Review

In The Garden Within, Dr. Anita Phillips has written a book about embracing emotions and the power we can experience. She begins by how she was traveling with Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts on a bus tour to 8 cities within 2 weeks. They were helping women with their emotions and what to throw away. Some of the common ones was insecurity, grief, anxiety, and fear. They are compared to the war that never ends. She explained how instead the heart is meant to be like a garden. She has worked for years a trauma therapist and she shared about how her own family struggled with mental illness. In the book, she shared how people are not okay right now. 2020 brought on some major depressive disorders and increased by 27.6 percent. Anxiety disorders also increased by 25 percent. She shared how we need to learn to grow our gardens and have relationship goals, purpose, and legacy goals. She explained how we must remove and cultivate our garden. We have to also replant our garden. She stated how our emotions begins in our bodies and doesn’t start in our minds. 

 

 

This book contained all sorts of powerful discussions on regrowing our garden and learning more about our emotions and how we can survive the war. This book is an excellent resource about managing trauma and realizing that you are not okay. She strongly tried to help readers to embrace whatever we have experienced in our lives and to realize how it has provided us with the lens we see the world around us. She looked at how the enemy enter Eden to led us to destruction and how sin entered the world because of this event. Healing from our past events can help to destroy that work. 

 

 

“I received this book free from the publisher for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400232988/