Get Your Loved One Sober or Positive Energy

Get Your Loved One Sober

Author: Robert Meyers

Historically there have been few options available for individuals seeking help for treatment-resistant loved ones suffering from substance abuse.

Coauthor Dr. Robert Meyers spent ten years developing a treatment program that helps Concerned Significant Others (CSOs) both improve the quality of their lives and to learn how to make treatment an attractive option for their partners who are substance abusers. Get Your Loved One Sober describes this multi-faceted program that uses supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment. Called Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), the program uses scientifically validated behavioral principles to reduce the loved one's substance use and to encourage him or her to seek treatment. Equally important, CRAFT also helps loved ones reduce personal stress and introduce meaningful, new sources of satisfaction into their life.

Key Features
1. CRAFT is more effective than other types of interventions.
2. This breakthrough new system is sweeping the recovery field. This is its first introduction to the general public.
3. Contains simple exercises readers can practice at their own pace, with no costly or heart-breaking interventions.
4. Proven successful for numerous addictions, not just alcoholism.

Author Highlights

Robert J. Meyers, Ph. D. , is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico. He is also the Associate Director of the Clinical Research Branch of the Center on Alcoholism Substance Abuse and Addictions (CASAA). CASAA is internationally known for its excellence in substance abuse research and treatment development.Dr. Meyers has worked in the substance abuse field for over 27 years and has published several books and dozens of articles.

Brenda L. Wolfe, Ph. D. , is a Clinical Psychologist specializing in the treatment of Eating Disorders, Substance Abuse, and Post-Traumatic Stress. In addition to her busy private practice, Dr. Wolfe is involved in research collaborations at the University of New Mexico, serves as a corporate consultant for the development of psychologically based services, and is active in various professional organizations. Her books and articles have appeared in both the popular and professional press.





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Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love

Author: Judith Orloff

Are you forever rushing through your day, fending off chronic exhaustion? Are you desperately overcommitted, afraid to say no? Do you want to feel well rested and ready to conquer each day with enthusiasm, but fall short time and time again? If so, you’re the victim of a hidden energy crisis. Here, at last, is the complete prescription that will stop you from feeling constantly drained and enable you to live a more vibrant life.

The Positive Energy Program will help you:

•Generate positive emotional energy to counter negativity

•Design an energy-aware approach to diet, exercise, and health—and teach you how to avoid the “energetic overeating” that sabotages attempts to lose weight

•Awaken your intuition and rejuvenate yourself—and learn the cure for technodespair: overload from e-mails, computers, and phones

•Protect yourself from energy vampires with specific shielding techniques

Filled with clear instructions for the simple, powerful exercises Dr. Orloff practices herself and shares with her patients, Positive Energy is your tool kit for transforming fatigue, stress, and fear into an abundance of vibrance, strength, and love.

Publishers Weekly

Orloff, a psychiatrist who has appeared frequently on television and written an eponymous Guide to Intuitive Healing, here provides 10 detailed prescriptions for harnessing one's "positive energy" to replace fatigue with physical and emotional vigor. Her commonsense program includes pursuing an individual spiritual path, developing "true-to-self eroticism," designing an energy-building diet and exercise plan, learning to celebrate laughter and protecting oneself from "energy vampires." Along with practice exercises for following these prescriptions, each section ends with a public figure describing the ways that he or she uses Orloff's methods. In the chapter on spirituality, Amy Gross, editor in chief of O: The Oprah Magazine, discusses how practicing deep breathing and meditation replenishes energy as she centers herself. Wavy Gravy, who warned against eating the brown acid at Woodstock, explores the way laughter has not only helped him cope with pain but also heightened his vitality level. Orloff delivers her revivification techniques in thoughtful, accessible prose that some may find an energy builder in itself. (Apr.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Psychiatrist, best-selling author (Second Sight), and medical intuitive to the stars, Orloff returns with a passionate argument for engaged spiritual energy as the single most important factor in fostering personal transformation. Connecting with one's soul is possible for anyone who will fervently focus on inner listening beyond the mind's chatter, she claims. Her "Positive Energy Program" is set forth in two sections. Part 1 covers building one's energy (e.g., taking tub time and three-minute meditations) and offers a spiritually based diet and fitness tips. An interesting sidebar posits that overeating is energetically based-if we lack awareness of our true nature, we unwittingly feed the negative energy within, eating mindlessly. Part 2 explores sculpting positive relationships by evaluating energy flow between oneself and others. Overall, not much is new here, but the energy-level practices are simple, fun, and specific. Orloff also enjoys a wide fan base. Recommended for self-help collections in public libraries and psychology sections in medical libraries.-Lisa Liquori, M.L.S., Syracuse, NY Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.