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Unlearning Myself: A Journey Back to Inner Wisdom and Peace
Paperback
Biographies GeneralMetaphysical General
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Willingness Press
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
You built the life. You wore the masks. You did everything you thought was required to finally feel safe, accepted, and loved.
And still - somewhere beneath all of it - a quiet voice has been asking whether the person you've become is actually you.
Bill Newgent learned early that the world was not safe. A father you could never quite read. Kind sometimes. Filled with rage others. The not-knowing was its own kind of weather. A home where alcohol set the temperature. An eight-year-old boy staring down the barrel of a loaded .38 Special, learning the only lesson that seemed available: become whatever keeps you alive.
He got good at it. Brilliantly, exhaustingly good.
A student of A Course in Miracles and personally trained by Marianne Williamson, he had every tool the spiritual path could offer. Intellect. Charm. Spiritual seeking. A broadcast career built from scratch. Dozens of apartments across two states. Thirty-six years of sobriety. Every achievement was the same unspoken prayer - please let this finally be enough to make me safe, accepted, and loved.
Then jail. Then financial collapse. A twenty-five-year relationship ended in a single sentence. And every spiritual teaching he had leaned on - A Course in Miracles, The Way of Mastery - stopped offering the comfort it once had.
What followed was not breakdown. It was threshold.
What he found on the other side was not answers. Not a new strategy. Just the quiet recognition that what he had been searching for through every achievement, every relationship, and every spiritual practice was never actually missing.
This book is for you if: You feel exhausted by the effort of being who everyone else needs you to be. You have done the work, read the books, and still feel like something is missing. You have lost something that once defined you and don't know who you are now. You are in recovery, rebuilding, or simply done pretending.
Unlearning Myself is not another self-help book promising transformation through effort. It is a companion for the path, written from beside you rather than above you.
For the willing.
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