Bridgit Dengel Gaspard - The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals

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Praise for The Final 8th

In this remarkable, potent, and deeply original work, Bridgit Dengel Gaspard gives us ways to explore and inhabit the gift of safely and creatively living with personas beyond the local ego. What becomes possible then is an emergent humanity that is equal to the challenges of our time.

Jean Houston, PhD, author of The Possible Human and chancellor of Meridian University

This exuberant book introduces us to the rich diversity of our inner selves. At the same time deep and lighthearted, The Final 8th is the perfect guidebook for breaking through impasses that stand unconsciously in the way of our fullest development and the achievement of our desired goals.

Peeka Trenkle, MDiv, founder of the Green Medicine program at the New York Open Center

An engagingly written, candid, and very useful guide for those who are stuck and dont know why. I plan to steal many of Bridgits ideas!

Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait Inside My Head

The Final 8th is a recipe for true embodied success. Bridgit is a master of transforming wounds into superpowers. She will guide you to achieve your dream and become more whole in the process.

Ruthie Fraser, author of Stack Your Bones

Using the voice dialogue process to break through persistent personal blocks is a brilliant innovation. But its not something to try on ones own. To succeed requires unparalleled support and guidance. Luckily, thats exactly what Bridgit provides in this book. Follow her lead, and the magic will surely unfold.

Raphael Cushnir, author of The One Thing Holding You Back

As an integrative health expert, I am always on the lookout for resources to help my clients through their stuckness. In this vibrant era of hooking into your potential, Bridgit introduces a potent technique called voice dialogue. Her book will walk you through how to unlock your intentions, dismantle your conflicting loyalties, and solve the mystery of your self-sabotage. You will find your journey through Bridgits book both energizing and transformational.

Alena Gerst, LCSW, RYT, author of A Wellness Handbook for the Performing Artist

The Final 8th makes overcoming roadblocks, limiting beliefs, or resistance to finishing any project a creative process of self-discovery. I love Bridgits tender, humorous, and light touch in making some of our greatest challengers into our lifelong friends. And with this tool bag filled with tools, our obstacles transform into stepping-stones on each of our unique paths. This book is a gift.

J. Tamar Stone, senior voice dialogue facilitator

Having taught thousands of people the art of creative vision, I have come to understand that you can do all the right things and still struggle with accomplishing your goal. Bridgit unravels the mystery of why you are stuck in a simple, easy-to-understand way. The final eighth process liberates you to truly go from impasse to kickass.

Barbara Biziou, vision coach and author of The Joy of Ritual

The Final 8th is profoundly transformational. Its also wise, warm, and very accessible. Bridgit Dengel Gaspard is masterful at breaking down a critical self-growth process that is sure to change your life. Read this brilliant book to become whole, and also free.

Laura Zam, certified trauma professional and author of The Pleasure Plan: One Womans Search for Sexual Healing

Stuckness can be paralyzing, and thats when you need help. I highly recommend The Final 8th, which gives you a wildly new type of GPS to access the parts of yourself youve lost, like your creative, curious, and optimistic alter egos.

J. Plunky Branch, founder of N.A.M.E. Brand Records and Plunky & Oneness

Bridgit Dengel Gaspard has written an important and amazing book about working with and healing our inner conflicts. To this end, she has brought the voice dialogue method to the world in a way that is profoundly accessible and strikingly contemporary. Here we learn that we have many parts or selves within us and that they do not all want the same things. She shows us how to use voice dialogue and other strategies to bring these parts out into the open so that healing and resolution may occur. Filled with evocative and compelling examples, The Final 8th gives us a way to use all our inner resources and to dramatically improve our lives. This book is a gift.

Scott Kellogg, PhD, director of the Transformational Chairwork Psychotherapy Project, New York City

The Final 8th provides readers with an invaluable voice dialogue approach to understanding their unique stuckness, but those who read and engage with the books abundant, accessible, and clear exercises will shift their relationships with and resolve, often in unexpected ways, those pesky last steps toward their goals. Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, through her deep life experience, clarity of thought, ability to surprise, and playful wit, comes alive and becomes a trustworthy ally on these pages.

Reggie Marra, author of Killing America, The Quality of Effort, and And Now, Still

As a leadership and relationship coach who has been on a personal growth path for thirty years, Ive had my share of struggles with failure. I love that this book gave me a fresh and innovative way of dealing with the parts of me who want to live life fully, and other parts who totally want to sabotage me. Who knew? I only wish Id read this twenty years ago! The exercises in this book are life changing, with humor and fun to spice it up. A solid-gold-10-must-read for anyone who wants to make a bigger impact on the planet!

Jeannie Daly-Gunter, MA, cofounder of the Transformative Loving Institute and author of The Love Map: Reignite, Reconnect, and Repair Your Relationship

In this warm, wise, and witty book, Bridgit Dengel Gaspard unlocks the mystery of why we dont complete our passion projects. Her insights into this phenomenon are original and hugely practical and helpful. If you want to go for your dreams but dont know why you feel stuck, this is the book for you. A real eye-opener.

Brian Tom OConnor, author of Awareness Games: Playing with YourMind to Create Joy and cohost of the podcast Awareness Explorers

Having experienced Bridgits work in person numerous times, I am elated to see her magic now available in this wonderful book. The Final 8th adds fresh new insights to help you go all the way with your goal. In the process you transform from being a contender to being victorious.

Brett Bevell, Omega program strategist, faculty, and author

Bridgit offers a brilliant, innovative, and compassionate approach to problem solving. Once she articulated the concept of the final eighth and spelled out the steps required for authentic and meaningful success, I thought, Of course! This makes perfect sense! But I wouldnt have thought of them without her wonderful, workable process.

Fran Sorin, author of Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots through Gardening

This book is a master class in understanding your inner voice by embracing your final eighth and reaching your greatest potential. Each chapter guides you to learn, listen, and transform your inner self and embark on lifes greatest rewards.

Joe Taravella, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist

If you have an unfinished novel in a drawer, perfect gym attendance for the first two weeks of January and not the rest of the year, or any number of incomplete projects weighing you down, this book is for you. This is a dynamic guide to crossing the finish line whatever your goal may be. Bridgit Dengel Gaspard offers concrete, insightful techniques that will have you breaking through your personal barriers to achieve your desires. Give yourself the gift of accomplishment with this fun and fast read.