Sand in Your Sandpile: Facing Life's Stresses - Softcover

Kearney, Deborah A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145258866X ISBN 13: 9781452588667

Verlag: BalboaPress, 2014

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How much sand is in your sandpile? Do you have lots of sand, or just a little? Our sandpiles are our emotional reserves. We constantly give the sand in our sandpiles away as we give to others, our work, our families, and the tasks of daily life.

Lots of us have depleted sandpiles. This depletion diminishes our ability to manage stress, which in turn can have negative effects on our physical and emotional health. How do we replenish our emotional reserves? Do you know what puts sand in your sandpile?

Sand in Your Sandpile looks at how we can build our emotional reserves through nurturance and comfort, self-esteem, and empowerment. It examines what keeps us from doing the self-care we know we need. Using stories and metaphors, Dr. Kearney examines life attitudes that influence our ability and willingness to take care of ourselves.

Since self-care is such a big part of stress reduction and resilience, Kearney wanted to create user-friendly access to practical psychological practices. This workbook is about loving kindness toward self and others with the goal of building a psychological immune system. Through self-care, self-esteem and knowing where your power is, you can learn how to address the natural blocks to coping. The guiding principle is respect for self and others. The goal is to facilitate personal motivation and methods of self-care.

In this guide, you are encouraged to personalize the material, do the user-friendly exercises, and put sand in your sandpile. With self-care, you can create a life you want to live.

Biografía del autor

Deborah A. Kearney, PhD, a practicing psychologist for over thirty years, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia in 1982. Her commitment to people's healing led her to create this workbook as a way to expand the reach of healing psychological concepts. Her admiration of her daughter's talent led her to incorporate her daughter's artwork, conceiving of the project as one they could create together. Emily Kearney-Williams, who has been an artist since age two, is now a college sophomore and has won numerous awards for her drawings and paintings, including some of the ones in this workbook. Emily and her parents live in Georgia and like being outside, hiking, kayaking, camping and traveling, artichokes, chocolate, word play, animals, laughing out loud, and being with family and friends. This workbook is a reflection of their interests and values, as well as a practical application of psychological principles DK finds helpful to people.

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• Verlag: BalboaPress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 145258866X
• ISBN 13: 9781452588667
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 74