What Will Set You Free

Cynthia James is an accomplished counselor and teacher. She has assisted thousands of people, just like you, to move through their fears, doubts and painful experiences to reclaim the wonderful masterpiece that is their life.

You will discover through Cynthia's and the other contributors' stories, the tools which will release you from your emotional bondage.


I feel this book can be important for you because I have always been a seeker. I have always been one who desires a fulfilled and expansive life. That "inner hunger" has led me to do a great deal of work on myself. I have spent a number of years in therapy, become a licensed spiritual consultant, graduated from two masters programs, one in spiritual psychology and one in consciousness studies and become a minister. I started noticing that the work that I had done personally absolutely mirrored the work that I was doing with my clients. In the last 12 years, I have counseled thousands of people, facilitated workshops and seminars and been a key-note speaker for National organizations. I decided to start documenting my process and the information that has come to and through me in support of helping others.


I started noticing that the work that I had done personally absolutely mirrored the work that I was doing with my clients. I decided to start documenting this process and the information that has come to and through me in support of helping others.

When I began working with people I started seeing that they would come in feeling stuck, inhibited, unable to express and unable to live the life they could see in their minds. There was gap between their dreams and how to have a fulfilling life. I started to explore avenues to support people in bridging that gap. Together we worked to uncover how old wounds, old hurts and old familial experiences kept them locked in patterns that they could not surpass.

It is my intention to support people in being free of old conditions, beliefs, and feelings of oppression that have kept them hostage in situations. This book is a "workbook for life change." You can use the information I present, and at the same time do the exercises to expand and facilitate healing.

This is what I know. When we are living from an intellectual understanding, it is not a point of healing. It is just an understanding of a concept. The actual healing takes place through the experience of health and well being, joy and clarity. Often times we attend workshops, read books and listen to lectures that leave us feeling high and inspired. Then, within a short time, we experience confusion because we do not understand how to use that information to stay focused and enjoy happy living. We are not clear on how to implement the tools in our lives beyond everyday challenges.

I want you to know that you have the tools to change. My intention is to create a place where you can feel supported and can anchor powerful tools as a transforming experience. This book is for students and people who are on a journey of growth and expansion. This book is for seekers of truth that are looking for tools to make more powerful choices and experience exciting advances in their life - in fact, changing their life completely.

I am so delighted you are reading this book because it shows you've made a choice to embrace life. So I honor your choice. Your willingness to change the way you experience life allows the Universe to stand in perfect alignment, to support and nurture you. You have created an opportunity to step beyond the circumstances blocking your freedom, making you feel stuck. This is a beginning, a time of renewal, and a chance to discover the truth of who you are. This is the dawning of an understanding: you are a Co-Creator with Spirit and today you choose to do things differently.

This book was created as a seven-week program to guide you on this new path. Please realize, you do not have to complete this program in seven weeks. If you get to a specific exercise where you want to explore more deeply or just be with your feelings, perfect. It is important for you to move toward your personal freedom in a way that supports your personal rhythm.

If you are working with a therapist or spiritual counselor, enlist their support as you process the program. They will be a wonderful resource for overcoming emotional blocks. The human experience is filled with situations and circumstances that leave us feeling wounded. We have no power over misguided, disturbed, or mentally unbalanced individuals. We have little power, especially as children, in controlling or fighting off those who mentally, emotionally, or physically overpower us. It is often confusing and terrifying when parental figures, caretakers, lovers, or friends treat us in harmful or abusive ways. They are the very people who are supposed to be our protectors and comforters.

Realizing this is not the truth, we are disheartened and disillusioned. Then we make decisions not to trust those nearest to us and these decisions can have far-reaching results. Such decisions anchor the belief that we are alone and not safe in this world. This can lead to anger and rage, controlling our relationships for years. These feelings are real and must be acknowledged.

I am not here to tell you to "get over it," "move on," "pretend nothing happened," or "remember that you are a Spiritual being and turn it over." All of these statements can act to bypass what we need: to acknowledge our fears, secrets, and painful experiences as stepping-stones to personal empowerment.

"Healing is an evolutionary process not an end result." Few of us leap to peaceful states of consciousness and enlightenment, especially, when we feel hurt or traumatized. We can, however, begin to understand that nothing from the past has to define the future.

It is often said, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. In the human realm, feeling wounded, abused, or abandoned is one of life's greatest challenges. Often we forget there is an unharmed space within us. Through the connection to an inner knowing, an all powerful Spirit and dynamic Universe we hear a call to us. The messages are, "Remember who you are." "Remember you are loved." "Remember, beyond all hurt, there is God."

"Brilliant! This is inspired writing. Given the sensitivity of the questions and issues people will bring to the book, it is completely respectful. People can identify with the case studies and see themselves in the stories. The exercises are profound. Anyone who seriously wants to intervene in patterns of thinking they have in their life will find this to be a remarkable way to come to high ground, find new understanding and different perspective."

Barry Heerman
author of Noble Purpose


"Cynthia James has written a compassionate and practical book that speaks to us all with wisdom, clarity, and encouragement about healing emotional wounds of the past and living our life's vision with confidence, creativity and triumph."

Michael Bernard Beckwith
Founder and Spiritual Director of Agape International Spiritual Center,
author of Inspirations of the Heart,
Forty Day Mind Fast
Soul Feast, & A Manifesto of Peace



"Cynthia James is a powerful, loving light for healing and wholeness in the world, and her work is reflective of the brilliance of her spirit and the kindness of her heart. I am honored and delighted to recommend her work to anyone seeking a healing of their past so that they might live a free and happy life."

Katherine Woodward Thomas
author of Calling in "The One"


"After many years of work with victims of child abuse, I can assure you that your message is one that reaches into the hearts and minds of countless adults who have also experienced this pain."

Deanne Tilton Executive Director Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse & Neglect Chairperson, U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse & Neglect

First Edition ISBN: 0-9774761-8-9

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