Words of Praise for
Sensible Self-Help :
The First Road Map for the Heaing Journey
From Authors & Readers About Sensible Self-Help
- An excellent source book for change…If you have the inspiration and willingness to change – read on. Bernie Siegel, M.D., Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and other best-sellers
- A practical, powerful and profound psychospiritual guide – your feet will be on solid ground, your spirit will be so much lighter. This is a compassionate, carefully written guide for your healing journey. Harold Bloomfield, M.D., Author of Making Peace With Your Parents and other best-sellers
- Wonderful and practical stepping stones to freedom and unconditional love. Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., Author of Love is Letting Go of Fear and other best-sellers
- Your book is wonderful – profoundly helpful and deeply inspiring. It is clearly and beautifully written, a delightful reading experience. I recommend it to all my clients. Margaret Paul, Ph.D., Author/co-author of Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?, Healing Your Aloneness, and Inner Bonding
- Dr. David is one of the freshest, clearest, most thought-provoking therapists I’ve ever met. Sensible Self-Help is a remarkable book – a clear, eminently practical and unexpectedly enjoyable guidebook to healing on the emotional level. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking the path of self-healing – whether emotional, physical or relational. Martin Rossman, M.D., Author of Healing Yourself and Co-Developer of Interactive Guided Imagery
- The title says it all – this book lays out the first practical guide for making our personal development efforts more sense-able. The compassionate and clear writing style makes it easy to put into action time-tested and proven psychological principles that enhance life. This is the book to read if you’re looking for a steady sense of direction on your healing journey. Roger Daldrup, Ph.D., Author of Freedom From Anger and
Focused Expressive Psychotherapy, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona
- Sensible Self-Help is evolutionary for the 12-Step recovery community, providing a guided journey into the “abyss” of the past for those seeking freedom from the bondage of repressed and denied childhood pain. Jean Jenson, MSW, Author of Reclaiming Your Life
- Sensible Self-Help clearly depicts a road map of the personal healing process that I, as a therapist, always instinctively knew was there – but could not articulate because of my closeness to my clients’ work. What you have done in this book is to take a step back, and examine the healing journey as a whole. From that perspective, you have been able to articulate with great clarity the steps of personal healing as they flow quite naturally and predictably. I am more confident in my guidance with clients thanks to your “map” – and my clients are able to make a more informed choice regarding how far along the road in their process they are willing to travel. Together, we journey there more expediently and with a lot less anxiety. Bravo and many thanks! Victoria Jones, Ph.D., LCSW, Director of New Leaf Counseling
- The book is easy, simple to understand and great to apply. I am sure it was not an easy task to write this book, but the beauty of how you’ve written it makes reading and applying it an easy task. You did a great job of putting these materials together. Shadia Shihata, Parent
- An adventurous and enlightening journey into self-discovery. Defines a clear and concise format for understanding and integrating theories of personal and relationship development, recovery and growth. Presents a unique structure and foundation for understanding the process of individual and relationship development. A complete instruction guide to understand personal growth and relationship development, along with the tools to assess and evaluate personal placement in stages of the healing process. An invaluable resource for teachers, trainers and therapists. Will assist in instructional delivery of material as well as describes skills useful in application. A remarkable contribution to the fields of psychology, addiction and education. Provides a much needed structure through which clients and therapists can optimally collaborate to make the therapeutic process as productive, successful and efficient as possible. M. Patricia McIntyre, Director, Institute for Collaboration in Health Care
- I just read your book from cover to cover yesterday. I am so excited about the information that is in there. It really, really helps me understand a lot that’s going on between my husband and myself right now. Thanks for such an incredible book. Cristena Ferran, Health Business Owner
- It’s the best book I’ve ever read on making psychological processes clear. Evelyn Eads, Human Resources Administrator
- The prologue in Sensible Self-Help contains some of the most inspiring and challenging passages I have ever read, and affects me somewhat as a series of prayer commitments for my own passage through life’s journey. Its last passage especially states, in the typically modest style of the authors, the scope and breakthrough of their intent: “We don’t claim to have captured the corner on truth. We do have one path through the thickets, and a willing hand to lend to those who want it. We have an idea of what the new skills might be and possibly what it is we are all searching for.” Through the years, as a supervisor of instruction in the State of New Jersey, I have had to evaluate and choose text books as well as reference works and source material for a social studies department with a core of forty seven teachers, including three in psychology. My background has included high school as well as college supervision in the social sciences. Though not designed as a text, Sensible Self-Help can be easily adapted into an instructive mode. Its great value in that regard is its direct touch. Charles Aquilina, Public School Supervisor of Instruction
- Sensible Self-Help is a gift to the world of people who are wanting to heal – a tool to help us achieve growth to pave our way to fulfillment and to inner (and consequently outer) peace. You have done a remarkable job of educating people at all levels of recovery, combined with metaphorical approaches for who take in information that way – along with worksheets to encourage us to look at ourselves and actually do something, not just talk about it. I am using your book to personally deepen the healing I’ve already done, as well as using this wonderful tool with my clients as part of my therapy with them. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and congratulations on this fine piece of work. Donna Winters, Marriage & Family Therapist
- I have read many, many books for self-help and I think this was probably my favorite so far. I appreciate all of the extra resources that are listed for people to be able to read and contact other support groups. Mary Smith, Florist
- The best user-friendly, psychobabble-free psychology book for the general public that I’ve ever read. It explains real life! Candy Cumming, M.S., Registered Dietician
- Your book is so compassionate that it makes people see through their own defenses… Robin Myers, Legal Profession
- I can't tell you, as a single father, how helpful I found SSH! Bill Katin, Behavioral Health Education Consultant, San Bernardino County Dept of Mental Health
- What I like most about Sensible Self-Help is the realistic explanation of what complete healing involves. Tanya Marwood, Research Analyst, South Perth Australia
Book Review & Media Kudos About Sensible Self-Help
- Eye On San Diego is not big on personal-healing books espousing cult-like devotion to group or guru. Self-help is supposed to be personal. Enter Sensible Self-Help, a no-frills Michelin-type guide to developing and increasing emotional and relationship intelligence. Sensible Self-Help is reader-friendly, making its striking points with a minimum of psychobabble. Eye on San Diego, San Diego Magazine, February, 1996
- Reads like a What Color is Your Parachute? for the emotional life. This is not a read-what-you-like, feel-good book but a working journey toward healing. Sign your personal contract and begin your “weekly healing plan” and “long-term healing plan.” Complete both – plus twenty pages of substantive exercises… – they may save you some time unearthing problems. The first two sections show how one is wounded in childhood and how such wounds affect adult lives. (“We live our lives out at the level of our wounds, not our wishes.”) Sections three and four explain the seven stages in detail. Besides the index there is a glossary and brief bibliographies and healing activities [recommended for each healing stage]. Among the plethora of self-help books, this one stands out. Recommended for public libraries and counseling collections. Library Journal, February 1, 1996
- This well-structured plan for self-motivated recovery enables readers to choose among healing resources with confidence. Bookpaper, February 15, 1996
- This book offers a guide to readers wanting to understand their own path to emotional and spiritual wholeness. The authors map a progression of emotional growth – “The Seven Stages of Personal Healing” – and offer readers specific activities designed to promote their own movement toward emotional self-responsibility. NAPRA ReView, Stocking Suggestions for Your Health Section, Spring 1996
- Now you can choose with confidence the next step of your healing journey. Personal Transformation magazine, Resources for Personal Transformation section, Spring 1996
- If you want to take an active role in healing, this book is an excellent choice. Self-help product review rating scale (1-5): Originality – 4; Organization – 5; Clarity – 5; Practicality – 5.
Bookshelf Catalogue Internet site, Product Reviews, April 1996
- Here’s a traveler’s guidebook – complete with lucid road map – for people setting out on the journey toward psychological and spiritual awakening. Using the overarching format of the “seven stages of personal healing,” the authors explain “how to measure your healing, make the most of your efforts and get the results you’re after.” This is a useful description of the practical steps to emotional and spiritual health – and the blocks that can stall you – emphasizing the essential role of self-responsibility in healing emotional wounds. Yoga Journal, May/June 1996, Guide to the Season’s Best New Titles
- Sensible Self-Help reveals a predictable sequence called the “Seven Stages of Personal Healing” – and the blocks that can stall the self-healer. Sensible Self-Help can determine the reader’s current state of healing and suggest how this information helps in the selection of healing resources, and much, much more. No personal or community library of self-help books can be considered complete without the inclusion of Sensible Self-Help! Midwest Book Review, August 1996
- I consider your book to be one of the finest, if not the finest, book related to our topic that I’ve ever looked at -- I don’t think a better one will come along. You can take that one to the bank! Stanley Fields, Host of Recovery Road Talk Radio, April 1997
- Supportive, yet deeply challenging, this is not another attempt to cover up our dark places with platitudes or make-nice affirmations. The wisdom…speak[s] to the reader on a level that bypasses denial and emotional defenses. They equip the reader with tools to discover personal inner truths that lead to who we really are, rather than the roles our wounds have required us to play. This is a book you can recommend to your customers with conscience and confidence. It should be the first staple in every person’s library who seeks healing and inner knowledge. New Age Retailer Magazine, June 1997
- An optimistic, humanistic…upbeat search for survival and the meaning of life as filtered through the lens of the obviously experienced professional authors. No background knowledge of psychology is necessary is required. Jargon is kept to a refreshing minimum and, when words are used in a special way, clear and concise definitions are introduced. Many chapters conclude with straightforward exercises which should be done at the time rather than coming back to them later. Additional exercises and [extensive resource recommendations] are provided in the last section of the book.… Child & Family Behavior Therapy Journal, Vol. 19(2) 1997
- Finally there is a self-help publication that can really benefit someone who is hurting…Written for the real person with real problems and offers real solutions. Bravo! 5 stars of a possible 5. Affaire de Coeur, Jan. 1998
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