10 Steps to Take Charge of Your Emotional Life: Overcoming Anxiety, Distress, and Depression Through Whole-Person Healing [Hardcover]

Eve A. Wood (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2006

Psychiatrist, professor, and award-winning author Eve Wood trusts in your capacity to heal—to clear the way to a natural state of hope, harmony, and well-being. The insights and tools she shares in this book will enable you to identify and resolve your issues. Dr. Christiane Northrup says this book is “one of the best books I’ve ever seen on how to achieve emotional balance and happiness. It’s practical, real world and very readable. Dr. Wood is my kind of doctor.”

Dr. Wood makes healing a simple process that anyone can understand. She walks you through ten steps that encompass examples, stories, exercises, and guidance. You’ll take stock of where you are and discover what you can do to transform your life. You’ll learn to address your negative thoughts and beliefs, make life choices that fit your nature, and develop strategies to support your innate capacity to heal.

Whether you suspect that you’re suffering from a known condition or you simply want to understand yourself better, this insightful book is a path, a promise, and a prayer for that truly transformative way of healing to begin.

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About the Author

Eve A. Wood, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine. She is the author of numerous articles for medical and professional publications and is a frequent speaker at national workshops and conferences She is the host of her own call-in radio show, Healing Your Body, Mind and Spirit, on HayHouseRadio.com, and a feature columnist for Massage Therapy Journal. According to Candace Pert, PhD, Dr. Wood is “America’s number one practitioner/educator in mental illness and integrative medicine.”

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hay House; 1 edition (December 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401911218
• ISBN-13: 978-1401911218
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,300,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable self-help guide for anyone coping with anxiety, distress, or depression., April 6, 2007

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This review is from: 10 Steps to Take Charge of Your Emotional Life: Overcoming Anxiety, Distress, and Depression Through Whole-Person Healing (Hardcover)

Written by psychiatrist and award-winning author Eve A Wood, M.D., 10 Steps to Take Charge of Your Emotional Life: Overcoming Anxiety, Distress, and Depression Through Whole-Person Healing is a straightforward self-empowerment guide written for everyone - from people dealing with fallout from a catastrophic emotional event to individuals coping with medical conditions such as brain chemical imbalance, to ordinary readers simply seeking to improve the overall quality of their emotional lives. The steps, discussed at length in the chapters, offer a very logical and practical approach to dealing with difficult problems, from determining whether one is in need of medication to making life choices that are suited for one's personal nature to sharing stories and building connections. A positive-minded, life-empowering guide, that gives useful information about the benefits of not only psychotherapy and traditional medicine, and does not scoff at the possible benefits of alternative medicine. 10 Steps to Take Charge of Your Emotional Life is a consumable text, offering the reader the opportunity to fill in blanks and express thoughts of self-discovery or self-empowerment. A valuable self-help guide for anyone coping with anxiety, distress, or depression.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Start here! This book will change your life., February 15, 2007

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Steven Gurgevich (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 10 Steps to Take Charge of Your Emotional Life: Overcoming Anxiety, Distress, and Depression Through Whole-Person Healing (Hardcover)

Dr. Wood is a seasoned and astute psychiatrist with a wealth of experience. In this book she presents an approach that is easy to understand, and more importantly, easy to implement. She does not present any esoteric analytical or existential ideologies, but rather guides the reader to greater personal insight and problem solving that is practical and achievable. I recommend this book as highly as her first book. Start here and you are on the way to greater personal understanding, growth, self-control, and happiness.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful, deep and wonderful tools ... I simply love it !, July 2, 2007

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Oraida Tapia - See all my reviews

This review is from: 10 Steps to Take Charge of Your Emotional Life: Overcoming Anxiety, Distress, and Depression Through Whole-Person Healing (Hardcover)

I have found this book as a wonderful tool, I am sure that it can make a difference in someone's life if they really read and use the proposed tools that it has, I have obtained really good results in my personal progress by taking into consideration many of the suggestions that Dr Wood does. Knowing yourself concepts that she proposed are effective, to the point and really clearly explained...really all the book is that way.

This book is so complete mainly for someone that is looking for literature that focuses on mind, body & spirit healing.

I have share some of the ideas that I have learned with my friends, collegues and some psychologist friends of mine, this has come a highly interesting conversation topic and some of them are adquiring this book to keep on learning and helping their personal growth & healing process.