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(May 20, 2007) "I read The Dance of the Wounded Souls and I think it will be life changing for me."
"I ordered your book a few weeks ago . . . . . it has changed my life. I went from hating to go to AA to going at least once a day. I went twice today. I have ordered another book for my son ____ who is in rehab. I hope it helps him as much as it helped me."
"I just want to thank you for your wonderful website and thank you for keeping it accessible to all. I've been coming back to it every so often over the years. It is like a sacred place where I can come and be understood and helped. I don't know if you get compliments like this often. I just wanted to make sure you know just important the work you do is."
"Robert, thank you, your website is amazing, such great info. Congratulations on your great work..."
"I had received your book in the mail on Friday and i have not been able to put it down since. very well written and indeed gives a lot to think about and a much healthier perspective of life. I have been in therapy for years as a result of a terrible childhood and i have that problem you had mentioned of the critical parental voice that makes me think im an evil monster when infact i havent done anything wrong and never meant harm to anyone. it can get overwhelming sometimes but your book seems to point me in the right direction."
"I found your website and LOVE it! really resonates :)"
"I read your book, I have to admit it is good and that is saying a lot, because I am sick and tired of these self-help books and allergic to spiritual mumbo jumbo, but you have something."
"As an transactional analyst I find the information on your website very relevant to my work. Also, coming from a dysfunctional family, repeating my own dysfunctional patterns with my children, I am now in the grieving stages of the break-up of an emotional abusive relationship. Not only did he broke my heart but my soul was complety destroyed in the process and I lost all passion for life. I now have the courage to move forward and would like to attend one of your inner-child workshops. Congratulations on an excellent website."
"I have gone to your site over and over again and am reading and taking it all in.... thank you for this wonderful site."
"Thank you so much for your literature. thank you for your time you spent in giving it. Thank you for your courage to share your experiences."
"Robert, I am surprised that people who visit your website don't buy your book or ebook. Your website and writings represent to me the only kind of real, grounded (Amerincan) spiritual and psychological information I have read on the internet so far. I used to have lots of information on my websites for free and many visitors from all over the world, but I decided that I needed to have some balance in all this, so I made an ebook instead and only had a few writings on my website for free. Maybe an idea for you too? Of course people like what they can get for free, but your information is valuable information which comes from the heart (I feel). So many people write about spiritual stuff but contrary to your writings, it seems that the experience from the human point of view of having been through all that they write about is missing, and this is certainly not what I feel from reading your website. So keep up the good work."
"I would like to be put on your email list for any emailings you send out and info on your work. I am finding what I have read to be of great interest and better said and more clearly stated than anything else I have read or any of the work that I have done in therapy"
"Excited to receive your book! Thank you for responding so quickly to my enthusiastic e-mail :) I passed on some information from your site to friends and got responses immediately! One friend in San Diego, _____, said he is going to take the first workshop coming up this month (i think that's pretty soon). And another friend in Canada felt like it was speaking to her directly. So happy. I love sharing information that is full of divine truth and healing and much, much needed."
"I have learned so much from your articles . . . Your articles have helped me tremendously, and I thank you for them. I look forward to your book. . . you have definitely hit the mark for me, and I value your insight. I thank Spirit for leading me to your website."
"I found your website through a yahoo search on emotional grieving. Thanks for your time in developing and sharing your website."
"I spent the morning reading your newsletter and I especially liked the thought of the childhood healing seminars that you have created . There can be much accomplished through this type of healing . Far too many of our everyday problems now stem from such experiences . Sometimes just saying them out loud can help a great deal at facing these demons down . Keep up the good work."
"I am very happy to be on your mailing list because everything I've read so far makes so much sense to me now that I'm off the drugs and I can only thank you for being there when I needed some help, and help so often comes from the most unexpected direction, thank you again."
"I am one of your Danish visitors. I find your information and articles brilliant and very useful. I have been very inspired when reading your writings. You seem to be a true lightworker to me. Thank you for doing such excellent work."
"I have just found your website and it is "right on time". I have struggled throughout my life with many of the feelings you discuss. Having no boundaries and codependency are the two major current items I have come to realize I must work on and I had very little information. Thanks for the information and I will be reading some daily."
"I received your book and really love it! It's like a deep sigh of relief from my inner child and soul as I read"
"Thank you so much for everything you have done for so many of us who need your words of wisdom. I read your book and have been continuing to read the information on your site. Because of this help, I feel like a weight has been lifted from me - I feel free, and able to smile - I do not feel empty and dead inside. I will continue to read everything I can on your site...It is transforming! Of course, I have to do the work but because of you and your site, I have the tools to work with."
"I wanted to thank you again for your web site. I spent a lot of years growing up feeling like there was something weird about me. I have a certain degree of ESP and I've always had vague memories of what felt like times and places I'd lived before. I never have talked about it much because it's offputting being able to know things like that when most people can't.
Two years ago, I started dating my current boyfriend. Over the course of that time, we wound up talking about a number of things (of course). About two months ago, he started talking about past lives, and we'd never talked about that before. He knows who he was in at least two past lives. I don't know who I was; I just know where I was. I didn't know before that there were other people like me. So, please put up with a "newbie" who has finally found out that there are other people like me and just wants to learn more about it."
"Thank you so very much for your website."
"I write to you in the month of my 3rd AA birthday, a 32 yr old single mum, in the process of integration of my fragmented modes with my wonderful therapist, stepping out to observe just how I play out Rescuer, victim, Perpetrator and back to university studying Theology, then likely a graduate diploma in Psychotherapy... I've defined myself from where I am now in my journey - where I found your pages on the net, and where I come back to for connection to tell my little girl that it is going to be OK and I am not going to die... You seem to write how I think (though I wonder if this is the same energy as when I sit in a meeting and feel like it was planned just for my ears only (I am sure you know how that feels!)) . ."
"I read a book on dysfunctional families I had had for a long time but hadn't opened, and happened to find your site on the internet. I am so amazed by all the discoveries this has brought to me. I was a good psychiatric nurse for many years but did not have any dealings with family therapy. Thank you for your site, it has been a revelation, and I hope will help to bring more peace to my life and my mothers. At last I understand."
"Just wanted to say thanks for the site. It was very helpful reading your narratives about each of the family roles as I study for my "Substance Abuse and Social Work Practice" class. . . . Keep going! Your life story was very inspiring, and is one more testament to the importance of dreams and perseverance."
"Dear Mr. Burney, I ordered your book -in spite of what I considered was its somewhat-new-agy title- ;-) while browsing through Amazon.com for items on recovery. I received it yesterday, and thought I'd read a few pages before retiring for the night. Well, it's well past 11am, and I have not slept a wink! I do not believe I ever read anything so easily absorbable while being so profoundly enlightening. I remember the Bradshaw series, still have the tapes somewhere, read tons of material on self-healing etc including Dyer, Mindell, Gawain, and many others, but your book was by far the best "bull's-eye hitter" ever. I cannot express enough my joy and gratitude to you for creating this extraordinary spiritual revolution tool.
On another note, I got so excited about sharing your brilliant ìperspectiveî that I thought Iëd ask if you might consider authorizing me to do a French AND Arabic translation of the book! "
"I really enjoy your writings. I am reading about The New Age Misinterpretations. I too have come across people who talk about twin souls and say they channel things, but at the same time they are totally disconnected from their feelings and wounds. And I get this feeling they are striving for perfection and the light, but fail to understand that you cannot receive the light if you are disconnected from an emotional part of your own being. I think this split happened at the time of Atlantis where feelings were considered to be bad."
"Absolute Masterpiece! I have finally finished my first reading of the book. I do love to read but I took my time to read it all. Now I understand why it is not a best seller. You would put too many people and the powers that be out of commission. Imagine one book having the power to do all that. It is funny when I started to think what I was going to write in response to the book, I likened you to the messiah...and lo and behold you started writing about it on page 111...so I said oops, it wouldn't seem like my words now would they? That continued to the end, my thoughts eventually I started to read in the pages that followed, it was amazing! Never before have I ever read a book so thoroughly explaining all my suffering etc. . . . I do love the incorporation of Native American spirituality...I always felt that the Native American holocaust preceded ours...if they weren't successful in taking over this land...we would never have been stolen to be slaves. . . I honestly feel the book was written for me and it was my time to find it. . . ...you are just here ahead of your time...and for that I am eternally grateful because it is my time. Thank-you.
"Your website is such a deep allowing life-affirming place. Thank you so much for what you've shared in your website. . . . . I felt led to email you and thank you. We are strangers and yet not. The way you write and explain your work is very familiar to me at some deep inner level. I want to thank you for what you share in your website. I am not in a place in my life where I can attend workshops right now. If I could I would so sign up for yours! Thank you!"
"I have been reading your excellent pages on 'Setting Boundaries'. They have helped me a lot."(refering to Setting Personal Boundaries - protecting self)
"I just found your site on Google. Great site... keep up the great work! =)"
"What a feeling, What a rush - to be present in the here and now. I have been reading your articles off and on for about two years. . . . all my relationships were acutely dysfunctional until I found AA, then AlAnon and then ACOA. The latter being the one that was home to me. And it took 10 years of this (and therapy) to begin to change my life. Armed with an education in 12 step programs I made a choice to try to become healthier ie. couldn't take the pain any longer. Of course my family have not been receptive and in fact express anger for the changes they see/feel in me. To continue, I found your webpage about two years ago. . . I work on healing myself daily and have spent more time in the here and now/the present in the past year than at any other time in my life and a major support is being able to access your webpage - reading - feeling - affirmations - all part of my daily life. I am also writing my dissertation and that is more than a fulltime job. . . it was time to thank the person who has given me encouragment to go on. For me, reading your articles has been as if I were in a therepeutic relationship with you and I have gained so much - even a little serenity."
"I have just finished reading 'The Dance of Wounded Souls', and i particularly enjoyed the last chapter. It gave me an insight and answered some of my questions. Without coming across your web sights I would not of totally understood about the disease of co-dependance and i didnt realise it went that deep."
"I have been reading your pages on codependency and recovery with great interest. Thank you for making that material available. I've been in AA for a while, and your synthesis of 12-Step spiritual principles with codependency healing make more sense to me than Melody Beattie's sometimes candy-coated approach. Thanks again for your insight and willingness to help through clear explanation."
"I feel I grew a lot by reading your book, and what you taught me is wonderful and beautiful knowledge. I feel how special my inner child is lovable and loving. Wow Robert your awesome teacher, I hope to meet you someday, that is my hope my friend, I thank my creator and I thank you Robert, isnít joyful to see and hear the creation of our holy mother source the nature, what I see I love and what I hear I love."
"Hi Robert~ I love your work, and have recommended it to others who are serious about their spiritual path."
"Over many years I have found help and solace from your writings. Thank You!"
"Maybe it's a coincidence or not, but I ordered your tapes many years ago while attempting to do something about my situation and I really liked what I heard but it was all lost and fore-gotten over the course of going through a divorce and attempting to recover from that. So here I am probably 7 or 8 years later and after witnessing some close friends go through loss of loved ones and my own father with a blood disease and a shortened life expectancy, I found myself searching the net for some help, some guidance and direction, and have stumbled once again into you. I have spent hrs and hrs searching and reading and I like the approach that you have."
"Hi, I've really identified and enjoyedthe material on this websit"
" It will be quite fine to add me to your e-mail list, your website is very impressive, though i cried immensely after reading it."
"Hello, I had been co dependent and an enabler for years. In the past year I have taken ownership of myself and have confronted years of dysfunction. With that, there is another person involved and your site has helped me confirm and has given be the hope to go deeper, to put the dysfunction to death forever. Thank you"
"Robert, thank u very much for all the information provided on your website, i just ordered a copy of your book and am awaiting it's arrival with as much patients as possible. i have read just about everything and the words on your page resonate very strongly."
"I read and re-read your articles on your website for help and hope for me. I fit into exactly what you write about."
"Thank you for your excellent work and insight!!! Hi Robert my name is _______ and I just wanted to say thank you very much for allowing us to read your thoughts regarding basic self awareness. I am sure we have only scratched the surface however, it would appear that on some levels humanity is slowly but surely moving in a positive direction. Telling the truth to ourselves is extremely difficult and taking action is even more so and this is why I found your work so very important in our ever changing dysfunctional world. At the end of the day our "errors" are only half the battle. The other half is what we do to make things better. . . . Your work helps illustrate all of the basic themes in human behaviour with only the names and faces that change. Thank you very much for providing us with the tools so that if and when, we choose to enlighten ourselves and others the opportunity is there. Let's make the world a better place by losing the secrets and enjoying the healing process. Thanks again and keep up the good work. "
"I have found your book to be very insightful and I am attempting to apply some of the principles."
"just found your material on the internet following a argument with my Mom! I happened to type in on a yahoo search engine for some help this morning and came across your article titled "Emotional Honesty and Emotional Responsibility" and it literally is beginning to unmask things that I never had words for in my relationship with my Mom! Thanks ahead of time for all your writing is and will do/doing for me and my relationships with God, self, and others! I can feel such hope and anticipation on what lies ahead for me in this next season of growth!"
"I identified, myself, tremendously with the information on your web site. Thank you. GREAT WORK!"
"I came across your website when I was searching for information about 'emotional boundaries' ... and I was so impressed by the articles you'd written and the information on your website that I wanted to read the books you've written about issues that I think hit very close to home for me (I included the CD's because I want to put them on my Ipod so I can listen on the train to London and back for work). What you wrote really resonated with me so I'm looking forward to receiving the books and CDs and to learning more -- about boundaries and about myself ... : ))) ... Based on a very small sample -- of one, me -- I know that generalizing is dangerous (yes, you guessed it, I'm an academic, American, but displaced to the UK) ... Nevertheless, I think you've got a really powerful website and are probably helping more people than you realise come to terms with the 'baggage' we've dragged with us into adult-hood from the time we were small ... Already, I've learned an enormous amount ... and I feel so encouraged ... Anyway! Thanks again ... "
"I do hope this is the right address to get in touch with you directly. I have been meaning to get in touch with you for some time as I wanted to say I have been deeply moved by your writing (both your book, The dance of Wounded Souls as well as your web pages) and feel convinced that what lies between me and my healing is the need to heal my inner child."
"If I could afford it, I would send this book to every person who needed it, which is most everyone! I'm very glad there are brilliant people such as yourself that have the capacity to help in this world. Thank you so much, Robert"
"I just ran across your web-site while doing a google search for codependcy + alcoholism and it directed me to your "Toxic Love" link which was really what I needed to see. There were parts that rang so true that I literally gasped out loud. It made me want to go and wake my husband with a hug because we are both stuck in the same vicious cycle together and (thankfully) finally trying to figure out where to begin the recovery. My next hour was spent reading about the Inner Child and I have forwarded the web site address to my sisters as well. I think they will find it as beneficial as I am. Please add me to your e-mail newsletter - I plan to visit your site often and would love to hear more of what you have to say. Thank you for your time and your work!"
"Thank you for writing this book. I have been handed many publications on codependence and adult children, and this is the only one that has given me hope and inspiration."
"I am enjoying your book, and I appreciate your down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach."
"I was so grateful to find your site while I was searching for help in getting thru my "4th Step" in my program where I am healing from many years of emotional, sexual and physical abuse and codependence. This step has been very very taxing for me. Most of my trauma has been blocked out so I have had a real struggle to "dig up the bones". I believe the LORD led me to your page where I saw your book. It looked like EXACTLY what I needed to begin my healing process. I didnt hesitate to order it. Thank You for writing it. Its exactly what I need."
"Just like to tell you that i think your insight and word display are simply amaizing, just so everything that i believe and feel are so integeral to us as humans. You conceptualise, intelectualise and emotionalise everything so well. You are really a great spirit. I would love to come to one of your seminars one day! You have a little admirer down under."
"I am so inspired by the readings on your site that I just ordered your book: "Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls". . . . I just wanted to write and say thank you for sharing your emotions. You definitely give me hope"
"I do not know if you ever get a change to read your e-mail, but would really just like to thank you for your work that you made so freely available on the internet. I am sure it is a lifesaver to many people and has been an answer to my cry for help. Not having any one to talk to and not knowing how to bother people with my problems without creating more for myself and others, and when every one so firmly believes I donít have any, I ask God to give me an answer through google. To get an answer to my continuous self-inflicted emotional pain I wanted to know why I am so ëemotionally needyí and how to heal this deep empty hole inside of me. Your web pages came up addressing a lot of my problems. I am stil far from where I want to be, but as you said life is a process. . . .Thank you very much again for sharing your insights, knowledge and experiences and your time."
"Your web site inspired me! . . . . I loved your web site, loved where you're coming from."
"Your writings and website continue to be a tremendous help and inspiration to me. I can particularly relate to your ideas on "counterdependence". I certainly have and do swing between the poles of codependence and counterdependence often. I find that counterdependence in particular leads me to a harsh rigidity and narrow-mindedness that is not a good place to be. The difficulty is that the outward manifestations of counterdepndence (setting boundaries, not being a victim, etc.) can actually appear healthy on the surface. It's only when I look at how I'm getting there that I realize that it's really no closer to a healthy love and trust of self than codependence."
"A week or so ago you sent me a copy of your book, Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls. I was deeply touched by the personal message you'd handwritten inside, wishing me well on my spiritual path, and my first thank you is for that. It gave me an immediate sense of connection with you.
My second thank you is for your book itself. I've never believed in the "no coincidences" philosphy of life, but the way your words have resonated with me is making me question my own (dis)beliefs. Your words have given me an unexpected shift in perspective. I've always thought myself to be spiritual in a sort of abstract and "intellectual" (read: totally disconnected!) way. Now suddenly, for the first time in my life, I feel like my spirituality is taking flight. Or at least, my awareness of it is. I'm feeling like there might be hope for my life.
You wrote that "our personal stick" (mine being an addiction to a relationship) "is the blessed gift that has started our awakening to consciousness of our path". I can't tell you how much that idea alone is helping me right now. I've been in a process of emotional healing for about 8 years now, making great strides, but without making much progress on my "personal stick". Your words have opened up for me the possibility that there is a very good reason for that.
I've just purchased a package of telephone sessions with you. I am very much looking forward to beginning this work, this adventure. But with this email I just wanted to thank you for what you have already given me."
"Robert! Just a note to say, WOW! Is this not just the most incredible and awesome journey on which you find yourself? I just finished reading the following passage:
"The Universe completely ambushed me with this relationship - and did it in such a way, that I had to throw out all the romantic fantasy stuff. There was no feeling that I had met a soul mate or twin soul - or that there was some powerful vibrational or Karmic connection in this relationship. I don't even think in those terms any more.
I think that I am seeing now, that part of the experience I needed to surrender to, was to learn how to be present in reality in a romantic, intimate relationship. I mean, I knew that theoretically, but I don't think I have been focusing enough attention on actually doing it - actually being present and conscious of the gift that this relationship is in my life, the gifts this relationship has brought into my life.
I have been not been focusing on the relationship - or on my recovery. The fact that I haven't been focusing a lot of attention on my recovery - haven't thought I had the time and energy to do that - is definitely a strong contributing factor in what has been happening."
I bow my head in humility and reverence at the depth of the courage and the honesty this passage reveals and at the very real cost in pain and grief of such clarity and insight. At the same time, Robert, I am filled with such joy at this level of growth and awakening. There is a line in a poem by Walt Whitman that goes something like: "We but level that lift/To rise and go beyond. . ."
I am so happy about this gift of relationship in your life and all of its gifts to you. But when you can say, as you have in this passage, "I have not been focusing on the relationship - or on my recovery," I could leap in the air with the sense of liberation from lies that I am not doing recovery right. This is Truth which Lives and Breathes, not some canned, stale sales pitch. I can celebrate with you the amazing gifts and growth of the path you tread right now and feel a newfound measure of peace on my own path. Dance wherever you may be, Robert, at the Wonder of this Life!" (This is in reference to an addendum to the March 2007 Update: My Fear of Intimacy processing page)
"THE TIMES THAT I HAVE CARESSED MY SOUL WITH YOUR WORK, I HAVE GOTTEN INMENSE CLEARING - VERY MUCH IN CONTRAST WITH A FEW ATTENDANCES TO GROUPS AND READING OTHER WORK RELATED TO CODEPENDENCY. LOVEYOURWORK"
