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The Emotional First Aid Manual
by Janet Buell

Using physical first aid, a layperson can shorten healing time by preventing infection in a wound, help a drowning victim start breathing again, or keep blood circulating in a person with cardiac arrest until professional help restarts the heart. Until now, there have never been procedures developed for a layperson that could offer equivalent help for emotional loss or trauma. Now, those procedures are available in The Emotional First Aid Manual.

Emotional wounds can be cleansed by the use of compassionate communication. The desire to live can be rekindled by the discovery of self-destructive decisions made during times of loss. Emergency emotional aid can help a suicidal person survive long enough to receive life-saving professional help. The key is in the simplicity of the techniques. By patterning emotional first aid exactly after its physical first aid counterpart, and by making the procedures simple enough for a layperson to learn, this manual can duplicate the success of physical first aid.

"This book makes it very easy to be of help," said Will Foreman, PhD, former president of the International Association of Trauma Counselors. "Simply select the section from the manual that is most appropriate and follow the instructions."

$19.99

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You’re Not the Boss of Me
by Sam Durbin

Sam Durbin, a resident of Integrity House, explains why there is a picture of a pepper tree on the cover of the book, “You’re Not the Boss of Me.”

“When I was eight years old, my life was about as awful as it ever would be. I hadn’t eaten in several days was getting weak. I leaned up against my friend, the tree, and thought, ‘I wish I could just die. I wish I could close my eyes and never wake up.’ Just then, a gust of wind swept by and shook lots of red peppers out of the tree onto my face. It felt like the tree was crying and when I stood up, he creaked, like he was hurting too. No one had ever cried because of me. No one had ever cared what happened to me.

That tree taught me that a friend didn’t need to talk, just listen.”

Once homeless and alone, author Sam Durbin managed to find a lifeline of support and acceptance at Integrity House, a program for people with disabilities in Santa Ana, California. His book contains stories of self determinism. Integrity House encourages disabled adults to learn to make decisions for their own lives and be treated like the adults they are. Freedom and responsibility come when people respect themselves enough to work hard and face life as grownups. Integrity House provides these individuals with a circle of support. There is so much we can learn from the stories Sam tells.

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Burnout
What you can do to put Excitement back into Your Life
by Janet Buell

Here's what a few of our readers had to say about it.

"I expected that this book might help me get over feeling so burned out on the job. It did! But it also helped me in areas I never expected or realized I needed. After 15 years of marriage, I was feeling less excited about my wife. The excitement is back. So is my feeling about the benefits of fatherhood. It's fun again. I haven't even finished the last chapters yet, but already there's been a big difference. This is such a practical down-to-earth book and yet it's very powerful and lots of fun to read. Thanks."
Tom Barnes from California

"The thing that amazed me most about this book was that it didn't just eliminate my feeling of burnout at work - which was the problem that caused me to buy it. It helped in areas I wasn't even aware I needed help in, like my feelings about my church, my relationship, my music, and even the state of my finances. The exercises weren't always easy. But they worked. And as I did one and then another, I started building up a feeling of pure joy. I feel at least 10 years younger now and so excited about life again."
A reader from St. Louis, MO.

$19.95

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Life Skills
Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology
By Marian Volkman

The book “Life Skills: Improve the Quality of your Life with Metapsychology” is based on a subject rich in philosophy and practical application. Much of applied Metapsychology, as developed by Frank A. Gerbode, M.D., makes use of one-on-one session work to achieve the individual's personal goals — from relieving past pain to living more fully to expanding consciousness.

Life Skills highlights key factors from the subject and illuminates the ways that these factors can be used on a daily basis for improved quality of life, as an individual, in relationships, and in the wider world. Learn handy and usually quite fast techniques to assist another person after a shock, injury or other distress.

Learn simple methods for expanding your awareness on a daily basis.
Gain a deeper understanding of what a relationship is and how to strengthen and nurture it.
Learn the components of successful communication, what causes communication to break down, and how to repair breakdowns.
Gain vital keys to understanding those behaviors of other people that have previously been inexplicable to you.
Gain the ability to more accurately predict certain patterns of human behavior, and to be more effective in dealing with the negative ones.
Learn an effective tool for making important life decisions.
Explore human potential.

$16.95

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Your Mind and Body are a Corporation, and You are the CEO
by Janet Buell

Here's what one of our readers had to say about the book.

"This book presents some ideas that seem radical when they are first presented but come to seem entirely logical and practical when you consider them for a while. The proof of the pudding is when you do the drills in the book. I felt a little foolish in the beginning, communicating with my 'corporation', but then as it 'answered', I began to realize how much it had been trying to tell me over the years. It was like floodgates opened. I've learned more about my 'self' in the week since I bought the book than I had in many, many years."
Cynthia Larson, Reality Shifters

$19.95

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Beyond Trauma
Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction
by Victor Volkman

Second Edition - New for 2005

Victor Volkman has created a tool that takes the mystery out of one of the more remarkably effective clinical procedures in a way that can help millions of people revitalize and improve their lives. To those desperate people who have experienced trauma or tragedy, this process is a pathway to dealing with their feelings and getting on with their lives.

In the new book "Beyond Trauma, Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction, Second Edition" Volkman presents a series of conversations with a wide range of people from many different backgrounds and experiences. Each provides his or her perspective on Traumatic Incident Reduction, or TIR for short. The book explains the techniques used by professionals and patients to help people sort out, resolve and overcome the negative effects of painful suffering. Untold countless people have to deal with trauma in a wide variety of situations: Soldiers who experience war or injury, families dealing with death, chemical or substance abuse, parental neglect, child or sexual abuse, terrorism, crime and punishment.

$22.95

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Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction
Creative and Cognitive Approaches
Edited by Marian K. Volkman

What if we could resolve childhood trauma early, rather than late? We are understanding more and more about how early traumatic experiences affect long-term mental and physical health.

Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is a brief, person-centered therapy for resolving symptoms of traumatic stress (acute and chronic) including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). TIR facilitators around the world engage with diverse populations including crime victims, domestic violence survivors, children, natural disaster survivors, accident victims, and combat veterans.

These practitioners include psychologists, social workers, ministers, domestic violence counselors, and lay practitioners who work in various settings such as hospital clinics, private practices, shelters, victim services agencies, and disaster sites.

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Booklets

How to Free Yourself from Manipulation:
There’s one overriding need which makes us susceptible to being manipulated. That’s our constant search for approval, admiration, and appreciation. This might seem like a strange idea. Haven’t we been taught since childhood to try to gain the approval of our parents, teachers, relatives and most of the rest of the people on this planet? If you stop teaching children to seek approval, how will they know what’s right or wrong? There are better ways to teach children than by withholding or bestowing approval on them. The procedures in this booklet will help you free yourself from the need for constant approval and thus from the manipulation of others.

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Increasing Creativity and the Pleasure it Brings:
In today’s world, a person who is trying to be creative has a tough path to follow. First and foremost, there’s the desire to be able to be creative on a full-time basis weighed against the need to earn a living. The creative personality and the business personality are not often found in the same person. There are a few fortunate souls who manage to combine the two desires easily but for most of us, it’s a struggle. It shouldn’t have to be that way. This booklet is designed to help you increase your creativity and also be able to earn a living by using your creativity.

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Freedom from Self Sabotage:
Do you ever sabotage yourself? Are you a self-sacrificing person? Can you make gains in every area of life but one? Are you restraining yourself from reaching for what you want? Is your progress a series of three steps forward and two steps back? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this booklet contains special procedures created just for you. They are designed to locate the handle the most destructive intentions and help you take three steps forward and then take three more with no backsliding.

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Increasing Your Compassion for Others and Yourself:
This booklet will help you handle, once and for all time, one of the biggest obstacles in your pathway toward an unbroken state of integrity and real happiness—your ability to have compassion toward yourself and others. And the procedures in this booklet will make an enjoyable experience out of doing just that. It is possible to be compassionate toward others while still surviving in the often cold cruel world.

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Curiosity, Compassion, and Persistence:
There are three qualities essential in a person who wants to provide effective emotional help to others. Those qualities are compassion, curiosity or interest in others, and persistence. No matter how much training you’ve had, if you’re lacking in these three qualities, you’ll be largely unable to help your fellow man. No matter how little training you’ve had, if you possess these three qualities, you’ll be able to help your fellow man effectively. The procedures in this booklet will help you increase those three qualities and be better able to help others and yourself.

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