The Miracle Question: Answer It and Change Your Life [Hardcover]

Linda Metcalf (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2005

Have you ever considered how a miracle would change your life? Would it enable you to get a better job, fix your marriage, stop drinking, keep your teenager home at night, make peace with your parents, silence your boss, bring back your deceased relative, or help you financially? In this groundbreaking volume rooted in solution-focused therapy, Dr. Metcalf challenges readers to ask themselves: “While you sleep, a miracle happens. Tomorrow morning when you wake up, what will you see yourself doing, thinking, or believing about yourself that will tell you that a miracle has actually taken place?” The Miracle Question is a step-by-step approach for people who feel “stuck” and overwhelmed by their lives. It offers methods for tapping into sources and resources they already have. Specifically addressing substance abuse, parenting problems, marital stress, and trauma fallout, but much more, "The Miracle Question" has answers for everyone seeking a fresh approach to whatever life brings them. With written exercises that help put you in charge of your goals and strategies, this book becomes the first true self-help book where you are in charge of your own miracle.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A wonderfully-written book. Takes us on a transformational journey, and asks the question you cannot afford not to ask! --Bob Bertolino, PhD, Author of "Collaborative, Competency-Based Counseling and Therapy"

This book is a gift. A host of simple self-help exercised documented through case studies. --PEter LEhmann, PhD, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington

A must read for anyone embarking on a life change. --Tracy Todd, PhD, President, Brief Therapy Inst. of Denver

About the Author

Linda Metcalf, PhD, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a licensed professional counselor, and is currently the coordinator for safe drug-free schools in the Mansfield ISD, Mansfield, Texas. She has published numerous articles on brief therapy and has written three other books, including, "Parenting Toward Solutions."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 180 pages
• Publisher: Crown House Publishing (January 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904424260
• ISBN-13: 978-1904424260
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,666,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Linda Metcalf, Ph.D., is a former Classroom Teacher, Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She is the author of ten books on solution focused therapy. Her research interests include relationship building between teacher and student, the use of solution focused therapy in regard to special education referrals, sexual abuse and addictions. Dr. Metcalf has presented her work extensively throughout the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Norway, Germany, and UK. She is a Professor in the Department of Education at Texas Wesleyan University, and Coordinator of the School Counseling Program. She is also the President of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Miracle Question, July 9, 2006

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This review is from: The Miracle Question: Answer It and Change Your Life (Hardcover)

Would you rather lose a problem or find a solution?

Far from being a merely semantic distinction, this understanding appears to be the key that will unlock our innate power to grant our own wishes. Not our superficial, material whims, but the satisfaction of the deep desires and values from which they have sprung.

Peace of mind and contentment comes from following a few simple steps. The book is nicely set out, the first chapters give an introduction to the brief solution focused approach, daring us to put our baggage aside, go wild and imagine just how much we might like to accomplish. After discovering our own personal strategies for success in general, later chapters explain how to use the technique with popular life problems: Marriage,

dealing with children,

habits,

Depression

"If you woke up tomorrow and a miracle had happened, how would your life be different?"

Linda Metcalf takes us, step by step, on the road to lasting change, with user friendly NLP, to explore what it is we actually want, but this is a journey in reverse. After projecting ourselves into the future, we can enjoy an unique perspective by looking back to how we came to be there.

Metcalf explains how we can satisfy, by other means, the desires that drive un-useful behaviours, which will otherwise hold us to ransom.

Straight talking, systematic advice will help you to realise your own miracles.

As soon as you see the world through this simpler perspective, cutting off the psychological deadwood, you can travel light on your journey through life concentrating on what's really important.

Via this solution -focused approach, some sophisticated techniques have been applied step by step making them accessible to everyone. The simplicity of the book hides the true sophistication of the techniques you are using.