The Pathway : Follow the Road to Health and Happiness [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Laurel Mellin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 23, 2003

A revolutionary program that goes to the roots of not just one common excess, but all of them, turning off our emotional appetites and offering us a pathway to better health and greater happiness

If we have not mastered two simple skills -- self-nurturing and effective limit setting-we cannot soothe and comfort ourselves from within. So it is only natural that we soothe and comfort ourselves by overeating, drinking, spending, overworking, and smoking or by finding our way into the softer excesses-people pleasing, putting up walls, rescuing others, or thinking too much. When we master these two skills, we experience a Solution-that is, freedom from the whole range of common excesses and a life abundant in life's rewards: integration, balance, sanctuary, intimacy, vibrancy, and spirituality.

The Solution was developed over the last twenty years at one of the nation's most prestigious medical schools and may be one of the world's best-kept secrets -- until now. Health magazine recognized the research on The Solution as one of the top ten medical advances of 2000. Emerging understandings of neurobiology suggest that using the skills over the long term may retrain the elusive feeling brain to spontaneously favor a life of emotional balance, relationship intimacy, spiritual connection, and freedom from excessive appetites.

The Pathway shows you how to use the method and why it works, while sharing the stories of Tom, Emily, and Drew, who mastered the skills and reached their Solution. You can use this book to begin to reach your own Solution, and if you want more support, there are more than one hundred Solution Groups nationwide led by health professionals, as well as self-help Solution Circles and an active Internet community.

The Solution is very simple but so powerful that many psych psychotherapists who use it believe it will supersede all current healing methods for one reason: it works.

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About the Author

Laurel Mellin, M.A., R.D., is an associate clinical professor of family and community medicine and pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine. She is the director of the Institute for Health Solutions, and is the author of The Solution: 6 Winning Ways to Permanent Weight Loss and The Shapedown Program. Mellin lectures extensively to health professionals and self-help groups and has appeared on Oprah, Today, Good Morning America, and the CBS Evening News. Her work has been featured in Time, Life, Newsweek, Fortune, Health, Shape, and U.S. News & World Report. She lives with her three children in Marin County, California.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Collins (December 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060514035
• ASIN: B00066R50G
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Laurel Mellin is an associate professor of family and community medicine and pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, where she directs the Center for Emotional Brain Training Research.

Emotional brain training (EBT) is based on a new paradigm in health care -- rewiring the stress response to enhance rewards, and decrease the drives for overeating and other common external solutions. EBT is based on the strategy of moving up the brain's emotional set point, to decrease the range of stress symptoms and enhance the higher order developmental and spiritual rewards of life.

She began developing the method (www.ebt.org) as part of a federal project to train leaders in adolescent medicine, and began exploring brain-based methods to turn off the drive to overeat in children (www.childobesity.com). Currently, her first program, the Shapedown program is delivered in the US and Canada. The method evolved to provide tools that mirror the brain's natural processes from each brain state, and to provide individual with the techniques to rewire their own emotional brain.

Mellin's Institute for Health Solutionstrains therapists and physicians in EBT, and her programs (6 EBT Kits) are used by EBT practitioners to progressively rewire the emotional brain through group training, one-on-one coaching and social networking. She is a New York Times bestselling author, and speaks widely to professional and lay groups. She has three children and lives in Marin County, California.