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A Powerful Blueprint to Achieve Lifelong Happiness!
Creating Optimism: A Proven, Seven-Step Program for Overcoming Depression (McGraw-Hill) represents a dramatic breakthrough in understanding and getting what we need to make us happy, effective and emotionally healthy.
Informed by the latest research in the latest research in neurobiology, psychiatry and evolutionary psychology, Creating Optimism draws on psychologist Bob Murray and psychotherapist Alicia Fortinberry's 20 years of clinical experience. The book is based on the acclaimed Uplift Program which has an astounding 94% success rate and has proven far more effective than drugs, or psychotherapy--or both treatments combined.
Creating Optimism contains vital new information and practical solutions including:
- How our forced migration away from the traditional evolutionary (hunter/gatherer) lifestyle is largely to blame for the depression pandemic.
- The truth about depression, what really causes it and why placebos work as well or better than antidepressants.
- How the brain is programmed in childhood to form beliefs, behaviors and relationships that promote depression, anxiety and pessimism--and how to help the brain make new connections so that dysfunctional habitual patterns atrophy.
- Techniques for building a supportive and healing network of relationships--the only lasting solution to depression.
- How to create and negotiate boundaries (versus barriers) that transform every relationship (with spouse, friends, colleagues, boss and children) from so-so or outright abusive to supportive and empowering.
- How to help the brain make new connections so the old dysfunctional habitual patterns atrophy.
- How depression lodges in the body through illness, ongoing trauma and patterns of movement and posture--and how to ondo it's legacy.
- Dramatically different step-by-step guideline to elevate self-esteem, uncover your competence and get the support you need to shine.
- How to find a life-long purpose that sustains you and access one of the most powerful antidepressants--your innate spirituality.
- Advice and concrete tools for care-givers working with people in the grips of depression.
Creating Optimism features valuable charts, exercises, self-tests, meditations and movement exercises, including unique Feldenkrais-like Repatterning Movements.
Proven 7-Step Program
- Identify and defeat the inner saboteur
- Reconnect to your body
- Create healing relationships
- Elevate your self-esteem
- Uncover your competence
- Access the power of shared purpose
- Deepen your relationship to the divine
Reviews
An original and provocative treatment of depression. |
-- Stanley Krippner, Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, California |
I had the pleasure of reading this truly wonderful book. I recommend that everyone who has or has had depression in some way, read Creating Optimism. There were tons of new ideas that I have not received in any type of therapy before. The book is truly revolutionary. |
-- George M. Hoffmeyer, reader review |
Creating Optimism does just that! An inspiring journey toward happiness that should be required reading for those suffering from the pains of clinical depression or the 'everyday blues' of life. |
-- Ann DeBaldo, PhD, Director of the Center for Positive Health, University of South Florida |
Creating Optimism changes lives! In 20 years in this field, this is the most powerful and effective method I have found for creating real and lasting change. |
-- Mary Bright, Licenced Clinical Social Worker |
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