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BOOKS THAT
AWAKEN THE SOUL
Two journeys. One mission: helping you rediscover who you truly are.
Step into the raw, real, and deeply personal writings of Pablo Giacopelli, where transformation is not just a possibility, it is an invitation.
BOOKS THAT
AWAKEN THE SOUL
Two journeys. One mission: helping you rediscover who you truly are.
Step into the raw, real, and deeply personal writings of Pablo Giacopelli—where transformation isn’t just a possibility, it’s an invitation.
BOOKS.
LIFE GIVING
SPIRIT-BREATHED
HOLDING
ON LOOSELY
HOLDING ON LOOSELY
Let Go to Truly Live
Holding On Loosely is one of those rare books that once you start reading it is hard to put it down – and can never forget.
The staying power of the message penetrates the readers’ heart without permission as it invites them into an epic story of loss, love, and redemption.
Holding On Loosely tells the true parable of a man who is trapped and controlled by the prisons the wounds of his past have set up in his life. Such is the ferocious power of the pain he carries that he is unable to see the possibilities, choices, and gifts that are within him and often staring him right to his face.
His eyes are opened to a new reality where he begins to understand how to relax the control and grip over his life as he willingly exchanges the results and the identity he has found in them for a life on the road of grace, where being good and getting it right take a back seat to an enriching and fulfilling love affair with the only one who can love and touch our hearts.
While working in a result driven sports environment he discovers what it means to live present and in the moment as he actively surrenders to the one who holds all things in his hands. His identity and the validation of his life no longer a reflection of his players results frees him to experience not only the best highlights of his career but more importantly the feeling that no matter what happens the integrity of his life and heart are safe.
The journey leads him to the place where he is able to start seeing the much-needed inner healing we all so desperately need. In a dramatic chain of events he is given the ability and courage to face the biggest wound of them all inflicted during his childhood by a father that didn’t know any better.
As with all great stories, the experiences Pablo lives through serve as symbols for universal life lessons. The external story reflects the hardships experienced internally by all of us, as we journey to find the true meaning of life, to be fearless and free, and above all else to know that we are loved not dependent on what we do or how good we are but because of who we are.
Most of us struggle through life, as we are totally unaware of who we really are or where we are going. We are unable to neither see nor accept our authentic selves. This inability to see things as they truly are leads us towards the wrong choices and listening to lies that are responsible for shaping our lives into an external identity based on what others say about us and the results we manage to accumulate along the way.
As you journey with Pablo through the pages of Holding On Loosely you will soon realise that this book is not another “how to” book nor another message imposing yet another challenge upon you. Instead you will sense a strange warming in your heart as you find yourself accepting an invitation into a new reality away from the illusion of control, resignation, and a false identity into a journey where you will discover the real you.
Get ready to understand real love, life, freedom, and how well you are loved moment by moment by the only one who can.
Holding on Loosely
READER REVIEWS
This book was compelling. Its message runs deep. Pablo’s transparency brings truth we all need to hear. This book will have an eternal impact on many souls.
David L. Cook
Ph.D
Author and Executive Producer:
Seven Days in Utopia
The immediate impact this book had on my life was unexpected. Pablo’s experiences put words to things I didn’t know how to describe or maybe didn’t fully realize I had yet to work out. Yet here it all was, laid out in a sports environment, completely relatable and tangible. I’m so glad this book found it’s way to me, I’m now trying hard to live in the Zone. But not too hard!
Jon Lewis
Lead singer of the EMI recording artist ‘Hyland’
"Holding On Loosely grips you tightly. You can’t help but catch the scent of personal familiarity in this deeply honest and intimately revealing story of Pablo’s pursuit of acceptance and ultimate freedom to be who he was created to be – truly beloved.”
Michael Simpson
Executive Coach with Trove, Inc.ates
United States
"Holding On Loosely will change you and leave you wanting to experience the God who never lets go, who made you to enjoy His love in the moment and for all of eternity.”
Krista White
Professional Sports Mentor on the WTA Tour
Pablo Giacopelli is well qualified to speak about many dimensions of life as a successful tennis coach and a trusted life counselor. Holding on Loosely, isn’t a typical “How to” coaching book, however. Pablo, drops his mask and gives the reader insight into who he is as a person, and the internal changes that impact his life and relationships. The reader who comes with an open mind and heart, searching for peace, will find there is much here to be caught and not simply taught.
Bart Breen
Top Amazon.com Reviewer and
Organizational Leadership Consultant
I read this book over a period of two days. This piece is very gripping and is exceptionally well written. The communication is deep and gives you insite in the writer's life at every level. The explanations and experiences shared invite you to take a whole new perspective on your life and what you hold on to. Our lives as a whole encourage us to strive for success, the only way to gain satisfaction and acceptance; however 'Holding on Loosely', encourages you to look beyond that, transforming your outlook to being you, as oposed to doing you.
United Kingdom
What an absolutely inspiring, intimate and beautiful picture of our relationship with God and what it can be! Through his super open and transparent approach, Pablo shows us what God’s pure grace and acceptance look like when they come to life in a person's heart. “Holding On Loosely” has challenged me in several areas of my life and is without a doubt one of my favorite reads this year. Pablo, thank you for being willing to share your heart and story with me. It has changed my life!
Allan Scott
Recording Artist/Worship Leader
The world promotes control. To seize the day. To get all you can and then hang on to what you have. Perhaps more than any other book I have ever read, Holding on Loosely asks you to let go of what you think you have and loose control to a God who desires the very best for you. Sounds crazy right? Pablo has dialed into the very essence and core of what living a life in the moment does to a person willing to forgo ego and let the real self come to the top. This book is a journey designed to ignite the passions deep within us once all the superficial masking gets stripped away. Thanks Pablo for being the real deal!
Chip Furr
Author of Thin Places
This drama is played out on center court, where an enlightened tennis coach sees the real battle his player is struggling against: the weight of performance she carries from her father. The only way the coach can help her is to shake his own opponent that he has lost to year after year, religious oppression. This story gives you a front-row seat to the final match between freedom and bondage.
Jeff Andrechyn
Captain, US Airways
Founder, Expeditions of the Heart
Swinging wide the door of his life, Pablo courageously exposes us to his very personal and powerful journey. He leads us through the corridors of both triumph and pain, but one always emerges with a sense of possibility and hope. Pablo’s honesty, tempered with humor, gives us permission to expose our pain to the healing hand of the Father with a smile on our face! A compelling read that just might change your life!
Malcolm Baxter
Leader, Nottingham Christian Center
Nottingham, UK
There are stories that entertain and stories that inspire...but then there are a few stories that awaken something deep inside our heart that is good and noble. This is one of those stories. A true story about a man who is not unlike you and me. You won’t have to commit to finishing Holding On Loosely—it will engage you till the end.
Gary Barkalow
Founder, The Noble Heart, Colorado Springs, CO
Author, It’s Your Call: What Are You Doing Her
Peace, well-being, and contentment are unconditionally available in every moment. And yet, so few people speak of having lasting happiness in their lives, including those who have poured themselves into religion. Holding On Loosely is one man’s journey to find true freedom in a sweaty, messy, muddled, and broken world. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is one definition of insanity. What you will find in Pablo Giacopelli’s story and message is a profound and liberating new way to live and embrace each moment of your life.
Best-selling Author of Divine Nobodies,
and Notes from (Over) the Edge
THE
MODERN
FIG LEAF
THE MODERN FIG LEAF
We come to the world naked, and we depart naked.
How about we live it naked, too?
I want to stop pretending every day more and more. Pretending to be something I am not. Pretending to believe in things I think or say...when I don’t. I want to be real, raw, and uncensored to God, to those that I come across, and to you. ~from the Introduction
In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve hid their nakedness and shame behind a fig leaf - what are you hiding behind? Many people have been awakened to the reality of Jesus within their hearts yet continue to live out the rest of their lives hidden and ashamed, not knowing that they are able to stand authentic, present, and free before others and a God who loves them and longs to show them whom they truly are! In The Modern Fig Leaf, Pablo Giacopelli takes you on a real, raw, and unforgettable journey into the human heart... and into the very heart of God. Rediscover your true identity as you unlock the Source of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in your life!
The Modern Fig Leaf
READER REVIEWS
“If I was planning a motor home trip across the back roads of any country, I would want Pablo in that vehicle. He carries an infectious hope I witness in few others. He trims man-made moralism from the Bible’s stories and reveals a God who adores us, knows us completely and deeply loves to communicate with us. This book is a courageous and very helpful guide for our own journeys, from one who makes no claims to be ahead of us. And so he is probably trusted more than most to guide us.”
John Lynch
Best-selling Author of On My Worst
Day and co-author of The Cure
"This book has the power to awaken the sleepers of false self and propel them forward into the mystical life for which they were born. This is powerful practical truth that I recommend highly!”
Robert Ricciardelli
Owner - Choose Growth,
Founder - The Converging Zone.
"This book will encourage an honest self-evaluation that will challenge your thinking and gently offer suggestion for a change in one's perspective. A perspective that might reflect the truest YOU one could ever know and where more freedom is found. I find this refreshing book life changing!! With courageous vulnerable exampling Pablo exposes his own personal experiences while in quest for honest living from his heart rather than a manipulated, false ego driven from the mind and pressures of this world that produces much fear as well as facade. I encourage you to read this book slowly as to not miss one jewel that is so rich in giving us all...take it one chapter at a time and allow yourself to reflect deeply."
United States
This book is excellent and definitely worth 5 stars. 'The Modern Fig Leaf' teaches some profound truths very simply. In fact, for me personally; this books simplified my life in many ways and brought a freedom and clarity of thought that I was not expecting. If I had to pick five books to keep in my desert island library this would be there in the collection. I highly highly recommend it.
Vincent Williams
United Kingdom
Pablo captures in fresh words and dynamic images the ancient truths of our faith. We have lost the heart of the Gospel in our systems, structures, and institutions. Deeply rooted in Scripture, Pablo attempts to bring us home to the heart of the story—the heart of the Father—and in doing so brings us back home to our own heart. Put your feet up, sit back, and take a walk and talk with God to a place of peace, integrity, and total acceptance.
You’ll be surprised where you end up. I’ll see you there.
Mark Eaton
President, Eaton Leadership Foundation
In a world that is searching for who they are and what they are called to do, The Modern Fig Leaf: Uncovering your True Identity is that book! Pablo opens the doors of Heaven to reveal the truth that has been buried inside of us since before time began! This book brings us to the “a-ha” moment we have been waiting for.
I highly recommend this book!
Jeremy Lopez
Founder of IdentityNetwork.net
Let the words of Pablo encourage your spirit on this sacred journey called life. We all need guides along the way. You will be greatly blessed by this sojourner who has marked the trail for those who follow.
David L. Cook
Ph.D
Author and Executive Producer:
Seven Days in Utopia
Professional coach and trainer Pablo Giacopelli has done it again. Maybe his best work yet. In this beautiful book, Pablo penetrates our inner world, reminding us that what we seek outside ourselves, God, or Dad, as Pablo reminds us to call Him, has provided already. We find ourselves, not by looking beyond but by looking within. Thanks again, Pablo, for helping us probe what’s truly important—our inner life.
Dr. Steve McSwains
Speaker, spiritual teacher, and author of the award-winning book
The Enoch Factor: The Sacred Art of Knowing God
