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The Joy2MeU Journal is a publication I started in early 1999 while going through some severe financial challenges. I started it as a subscription area of my site both to try to get more income coming in and also to publish several books that I was writing that I didn’t have the resources to publish any other way. I thought it was going to be a periodical thing when I started - kind of an online magazine. That isn’t the way it worked out. It turned into something quite different - and very intimately personal. Starting in 1999 and continuing through the end of 2004 I shared in this Journal a personal journal where I was processing through my fear of intimacy issues. That very painful process resulted in getting me to a place where I am in a relationship and don’t have time to write any more.;-)
What this Journal turned into is (as I describe it on my siteindex page): “a body of work in a password protected part of the site where Robert is publishing the story of his Spiritual Path, a ongoing personal recovery journal, and portions of his Trilogy and Attack on America books not available on regular Joy2MeU site.” Here is a brief description of those 4 major elements of the Joy2MeU Journal.
The series of 11 articles on my Spiritual Path ended up being called: The Path of One Recovering Codependent ~ the dance of one wounded soul. That series covers my early recovery up through going to treatment for codependency in 1988 in my fifth year of sobriety - and also includes 3 articles that are about the miracles that led to writing and being able to publish Codependence: Dance of the Wounded Souls. The personal journal includes 58 web pages (probably close to a million words) and started with sharing my “April Fool’s Day Lesson” in the Newsletter of the Premiere issue of the Journal. It was also called The Path of One Recovering Codependent ~ the dance of one wounded soul. As I say in the story of the evolution of this Journal lower on the page, “it is . . . part of an autobiography, but one that only exists in this Journal and may never be published elsewhere . . " In writing those pages I faced and processed through multiple facets and levels of my fear of intimacy issues and two relationship opportunities for growth. There are a lot of stories from my life and recovery - and examples of applying recovery in the processing through various issues and situations - along with some pretty self indulgent writing.;-) I think anyone who appreciates my work and style of writing would find this journal within the Journal very valuable. The Trilogy is the first writing I did starting in the fall of 1988. It is a Magical, Mystical, Spiritual Fable which includes a history of the Universe unlike any which has ever been written. In this book, my Higher Self appears to me as a Unicorn that gallops off of a picture on the desk of my casita in Taos New Mexico one snowy evening in January 1989. We then go on an adventure through time and space, exploring the meaning and purpose of life. The book is divided into 8 sections of 3 parts - 2 chapters of the narrative story line and one segment of The History of the Universe (although it is only complete through 6 1/2 sections - and may never be completed beyond that.) Writing this work helped me build and refine the foundation for my spiritual Belief system - and later spawned my book: Codependence: Dance of the Wounded Souls. “In the spring of 1991, Robert Burney was asked to speak in several different venues on the subject of Codependence. In the course of those speaking engagements he heard himself making statements to a general audience that he had never considered saying in public because of their controversial nature. To his surprise he found that the practical process level tools and techniques that he utilized in his private therapy practice were merging with mystical and magical knowledge he had acquired writing a book that was an adult fable about the history of the Universe - the first book of a trilogy. . . . . . . . The Joy2MeU Journal includes the first book of the Trilogy mentioned above (a book that will probably never be finished), the story of Robert’s recovery through 1988 when he went to treatment for codependency in his fifth year of sobriety, and a personal journal of his growth process and recovery from 1999 thru 2004.” - Biography page The Attack on America online book is one I started publishing online on September 22, 2001. In early 2002 I moved it from my regular website to this Journal in part because of hate email I was receiving because of the controversial nature of my writing - and because it had become intensely personal and revealing. I didn’t want anyone to miss out on the value of reading my articles on codependency recovery and inner child healing because they were distracted by the discussions of historical and cultural international manifestations of codependency - or by the personal revelations - that I shared in this online book. I later did also add this online book to the newer subscription area of Joy2MeU Dancing in Light.
There are also other articles in the Journal - as you can see by looking at the Contents page - many of which were later added to the regular website, often in expanded versions.
The processing I did in the journal within the Journal has resulted in me being in a relationship for the last 4 years, and also in being blessed with the opportunity to be the primary caretaker for an amazing little boy named Darien. (The story of Darien and I, and our soul contract to meet up in this lifetime is here: Darien )
I am making some additions and changes to this page in November 2012 - and adjusting the price slightly. Anyone buying a subscription to either of the subscription areas of my site will be getting a lifetime subscription - at least for the lifetime of Joy2MeU.com anyway.
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