Devour Obstacles for Dinner: Tools to Develop a Fearless Attitude, Discover Joy, and Achieve Goals - Softcover

Morris, Robin Rae

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150434586X ISBN 13: 9781504345866

Verlag: BalboaPress, 2016

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In Devour Obstacles for Dinner, you’ll find inspiration and the tools to put your “aha’s" into practice. You’ll find tools to help you answer should I stay or should I go questions in your relationships and careers, you’ll find tools to help you with overwhelm, anxiety and depression, and you’ll find tools to help you resolve the feeling that you have great life - but maybe something, passion or purpose, is missing. These practical and time tested tools are woven into stories of inspiring life changes, providing you with the attitude and tools to create the life you want to live while allowing you to give your best to others.

This book is for you if you want to:

• Realize it’s not overcoming your problems that will make you happy, confident and fulfilled: it’s about finding the tools to become happy, confident and fulfilled that allows you to overcome your problems
• Experience more joy, passion and compassion in your daily life
• Release worries and fears that hold you back
• Resolve “Should I stay or should I go?” questions
• Approach life with a positive and hopeful mindset
• Launch your biggest dreams

This book is for psychology students, psychotherapists and medical professionals who want to:

• Learn practical tools to propel your clients’ success
• Sharpen your creative counseling skills
• Laugh with clients while resolving issues
• Experience therapy sessions up close and personal
• Connect to clients as the unique helping professional you are, and earn clients’ trust

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Robin is a licensed mental health counsellor who enjoys private practice in Woodinville, Washington. She loves beauty of the Pacific Northwest and also loves travelling to present at seminars. She has worked in community agencies, private and public schools, and has been a dance teacher and theatre director for kids 5 - 95. In all of her work, she is most concerned with the transformational process for each individual, and providing opportunities for deep connections between individuals. Her varied professional career positions give her a unique, creative and easy to relate to style. She encourages clients to become self-empowered and also to access their innate creativity. Robin has a Masters Degree in Existential Phenomenological Therapeutic Psychology from Seattle University, in Seattle Washington. Don't be afraid of that last sentence, it just means that her therapeutic training focuses on the issues faced by humans throughout our life spans. She loves books, bicycles, being grateful, gardening, hiking and snow-skiing. To learn about counselling, consulting and speaking opportunities, please visit RobinMorrisCounseling.com A long time story teller, both by nature and the family she was born into, Robin has also become a collector of stories. These stories are based in the funny, poignant, determined and passionate accounts collected over thirty years of choosing to work as a dedicated helping professional. She is continuing to be of service to others by offering a series of books and also a series of seminars. The books and seminars are based in getting inspired by others' stories, and assisting clients to create their own magnificent life story.

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Robin is a licensed mental health counsellor who enjoys private practice in Woodinville, Washington. She loves beauty of the Pacific Northwest and also loves travelling to present at seminars. She has worked in community agencies, private and public schools, and has been a dance teacher and theatre director for kids 5 – 95.

In all of her work, she is most concerned with the transformational process for each individual, and providing opportunities for deep connections between individuals. Her varied professional career positions give her a unique, creative and easy to relate to style. She encourages clients to become self-empowered and also to access their innate creativity.

Robin has a Masters Degree in Existential Phenomenological Therapeutic Psychology from Seattle University, in Seattle Washington. Don’t be afraid of that last sentence, it just means that her therapeutic training focuses on the issues faced by humans throughout our life spans. She loves books, bicycles, being grateful, gardening, hiking and snow-skiing.

To learn about counselling, consulting and speaking opportunities, please visit RobinMorrisCounseling.com

A long time story teller, both by nature and the family she was born into, Robin has also become a collector of stories. These stories are based in the funny, poignant, determined and passionate accounts collected over thirty years of choosing to work as a dedicated helping professional. She is continuing to be of service to others by offering a series of books and also a series of seminars. The books and seminars are based in getting inspired by others’ stories, and assisting clients to create their own magnificent life story.

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Robin is a licensed mental health counsellor who enjoys private practice in Woodinville, Washington. She loves beauty of the Pacific Northwest and also loves travelling to present at seminars. She has worked in community agencies, private and public schools, and has been a dance teacher and theatre director for kids 5 – 95.

In all of her work, she is most concerned with the transformational process for each individual, and providing opportunities for deep connections between individuals. Her varied professional career positions give her a unique, creative and easy to relate to style. She encourages clients to become self-empowered and also to access their innate creativity.

Robin has a Masters Degree in Existential Phenomenological Therapeutic Psychology from Seattle University, in Seattle Washington. Don’t be afraid of that last sentence, it just means that her therapeutic training focuses on the issues faced by humans throughout our life spans. She loves books, bicycles, being grateful, gardening, hiking and snow-skiing.

To learn about counselling, consulting and speaking opportunities, please visit RobinMorrisCounseling.com

A long time story teller, both by nature and the family she was born into, Robin has also become a collector of stories. These stories are based in the funny, poignant, determined and passionate accounts collected over thirty years of choosing to work as a dedicated helping professional. She is continuing to be of service to others by offering a series of books and also a series of seminars. The books and seminars are based in getting inspired by others’ stories, and assisting clients to create their own magnificent life story.

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Devour Obstacles for Dinner

Tools to Develop a Fearless Attitude, Discover Joy, and Achieve Goals

By Robin Rae Morris

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2016 Robin Rae Morris
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-5043-4586-6

Contents

Preface, xi, 
Part One: Meet and Greet Ridin' in the Atommobile, 1, 
Part Two: Counseling Can Be User Friendly So Many Adventures, So Little Time, 19, 
Part Three: Counseling Can Help You Make Important Decisions The Unknown is Faithful, 59, 
Part Four: Counseling Can Help You Ask Important Questions The Art of the Pause, 83, 
Part Five: Counseling Can Help You Improve Your Relationships The Hallmark Card You'll Never Send, 97, 
Part Six: Counseling Can Provide Engaging Metaphors Ride the Best Bus, 131, 
Afterword, 157, 

CHAPTER 1

Part One: Meet and Greet

Ridin' in the Atommobile

Standing in a line at Disneyland with Mickey Mouse ears atop my head, I stared — equally scared and fascinated — at a ride called Adventures through Inner Space. I instinctively slipped my small, six-year-old hand into my father's large palm as we watched the riders in front of us take their seats in the Atommobile — a converted car that carried visitors down a dark tunnel. We stood at one end of the Mighty Microscope and peered through a glass tube, which showed the Atommobile traveling farther and farther away. Then it was our turn. Once seated in the Atommobile, I clung to my father's arm, and we drove down the tunnel. In the darkness, the voice of an unseen scientist told us we had "passed beyond the limits of normal Mag-ni-fi-ca-tion." In other words, we were shrinking to the size of microscopic molecules!

As we entered through the tunnel, delicate snowflakes fluttered down around us, but as we continued, they grew larger and larger. The scientist said, "Although your body will shrink, your mind will expand." I watched wide-eyed and delighted as the snowflakes progressively grew to two hundred times the size of a little girl — a single snowflake became large enough to fill my entire field of vision. I was surrounded by infinite uniqueness and immeasurable beauty unfolding in every ice crystal. Before we were returned to normal size, a simple knowledge had crystallized within me: we are all infinitely unique and immeasurably beautiful. This inherent beauty is constantly unfolding through our unlimited capacity for joy, love, tolerance, and laughter.

Inevitably, we will all encounter difficulties from which we might prefer to shrink; however, those are precisely the moments in which our hearts and minds can expand. And this book will show you how.

How to Make This Book Work for You

This book is a collection of twenty-two stories, and thirty-nine tools. Each one was written with the goal of helping you resolve a difficult situation, improve your mood, or achieve your next great objective.

Each story describes a client's journey to transforming unhappiness into joy, gratitude, and compassion. Along the way, the reader will see representations of lessons learned along the way in the form of tools. Some tools give an organized "how-to" outline for moving forward. Other tools are a visual representation of a helpful framework, designed to present a new perspective for solving difficult issues and questions. In my counseling practice, I've found that representing frameworks visually on a whiteboard makes them easier to remember. Visual learners love them.

Each tool has been tested and retested to make sure it is helpful in everyday life for a wide range of personalities and presenting problems. Each tool has also proven to be a fundamental element in deeper, transformative experiences for clients. The characters and stories in this book represent composites of several individuals and events, as confidentiality is always my top priority. You can read each story for the full experience, or if you want to cut to the chase, you can go straight to the tools.

I've had the privilege of being a counselor and life coach for over twenty years, and this book is the result of watching client after client change his or her life for the better. Everything starts with the first step: being willing to change. My clients have shown me that once you are willing to manifest the courage and vulnerability necessary to share your story, your story will change. These wonderful people are proof that life works when we're dedicated to creating a life that works for us.

Now is the time! Make this book your own. You have an incredible life story waiting to unfold. In this story, your life works for you and allows you to contribute to your family, community, and society.

A Note to Students of Psychology

Imagine it's your first session as a counselor. You open your mouth to greet your client, and instead of "hello," a gasp comes out. Only then do you realize that you've been holding your breath for who knows how long! You'd like to reach out and shake your client's hand, but you're certain the pools of perspiration seeping out of your shirt and down your arms are a dead giveaway of your uncertainty.

The client looks at you with trusting eyes and innocently inquires, "How does this work?" You feel a scream emerging from your throat. "Hell if I know!" you resist yelling. You also resist calling your mother in the middle of the session and begging her to please come get you and take you home.

Somewhere in your mind, you think about dry cleaning. Yes, dry cleaning — where the clothes come in dirty and go out clean, where a spot is a spot and there is no ambiguity. You know you'd be good at dry cleaning; strange that it is only now as this client, this person, is staring at you and waiting for answers, that you are able to see so clearly that your answer is a different career.

Your mind, scrambling madly, tries to calm you down: Just remember the role plays, the videotaped sessions and feedback, and the endless hours transcribing practice sessions. Your inner cheerleader yells, You got this! But when she sees the stricken, nervous look on your face, even she puts down her pom-poms and heads out to look for a new game.

Practice as we might, nothing can prepare us for those first few sessions when we sit across the room from another human being — someone seeking help, relief from suffering, and perspective on how to make a better life.

My first client was desperate. But he wasn't the only one in the room feeling this way. As he shared his story, he began to sweat, and so did I. I sweat in those weird places that activate when your sweating is anxiety based: the upper lip (attractive and not at all distracting) and behind the knees. Worrying about all the perspiration was not at all conducive to that "being present" thing I had just spent three years of graduate school exploring.

Needless to say, it did not go well.

He did not return.

So I sought feedback. "Relax," my mentor said. "You don't have to solve it all at once. Let your client's life story unfold." I thanked her for this advice. Later, I told her that putting three fingers gently over her mouth and chin had failed to conceal the fact that she was laughing at me and my sweating.

After all these years, I'm now in the position of advising psychology students to relax! But I know it's harder than that, which is why I wrote this book. Here you'll read about the same concepts that are covered in graduate school but with one big difference: now you'll get to "sit in" on sessions and...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BalboaPress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 150434586X
• ISBN 13: 9781504345866
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 174
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar