WOOD YOU BELIEVE

About the Book

SEE WOOD IN A NEW LIGHT
SEE YOURSELF IN THE LIGHT OF WOOD
UNDERSTAND WHO YOU ARE
IN THE LIGHT OF YOUR FAMILY TREE.

Don’t allow the past to determine
how your life should be in the future.
Free yourself from old scripts.
Bring healing to your family Tree.

Remember your Ancestors
Recognize old Patterns
Release old Hurts
Recover from Illness
Reclaim your Identity
Rededicate old Places
Restore what was Lost
Reunite with Lost Siblings

Resolve old Conflicts
Reflect on Abortion
Revisit Memories and Places
Reawaken Ancestral Gifts
Reconnect with Providence
Redeem your Family Tree
Revive your Relationships
Recover from Family Trauma

These are just some of the topics covered in Wood You Believe – The Ancestral Self, where Fr. Jim Cogley, with twenty-five years     experience of working in this area, combines the wisdom of spirituality and psychology, with the discipline of woodturning, to provide a multitude of fascinating symbols, life changing insights and some valuable resources for healing.

Readers comments:
The Ancestral Self adds an exciting new dimension to tracing your family tree.
For years I have been reading self-help books and searching for answers.
Now I am finally asking the right questions.
The Ancestral Self is the book that many are waiting for. It contains so many keys for making sense of our lives.
I never realized that a lifelong burden was older than myself and could be lifted.
This is one book that delivers much more than it promises.

About the Author

Fr Jim Cogley was born in Wexford in 1954. He trained for the priesthood in St Patrick’s College Maynooth, where he took degrees in English, Philosophy and Theology. Ordained in 1980 for the Diocese of Ferns in Ireland, he has a deep love of the Sea and his work with symbols. Formerly based in Kilmore Quay for most of his pastoral life and now in Oylegate, he has many years’ teaching experience and is a counselling supervisor.

As a psychotherapist, he trained in the Jungian tradition. His particular area of interest is that of Intergenerational Healing present.

His innovative, self-taught woodworking skills, developed in recent years, provide a unique opportunity to present the age-old truths of life and spirituality in the form of symbols that speak to the soul. Many of the seminars he conducts throughout the country on topics such as those covered in the ‘Wood you Believe’ series involve the use of such symbols. His concept of a Memorial Trail and Garden to people lost at sea, located in Kilmore Quay, and the recently opened Tree of Life and Raphael’s Healing Garden in Oylegate are now major visitor attractions.

A Spirituality of Healing and Integration is the sixth volume in the Wood You Believe series.