You Are What You Say: The Proven Program that Uses the Power of Language to Combat Stress, Anger, and Depression (Paperback)

by Matthew Budd (Author), Larry Rothstein (Author) "One spring morning nearly twenty years ago, as I sat in a hotel meeting room with two hundred participants attending a weekend-long workshop on "personal..." (more)
Key Phrases: High Achiever Robert, Depressed Woman Linda, Angry Man Walter (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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"Matthew Budd shows us how to use the experience of suffering as a catalyst for transforming our lives. How we communicate with one another and with ourselves is a powerful determinant of health."
-- Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease

"Dr. Budd's lifetime of professionally caring for people has yielded this wonderful synthesis of ancient and modern healing principles. We can benefit by following his profound yet simple approaches."
-- Herbert Benson, M.D., author of The Relaxation Response

"The simple but powerful program described in this book has been used successfully by thousands of patients to reduce suffering and get more out of life. Highly recommended."
-- Steven E. Locke, M.D., Chief, Department of Mind/Body Medicine, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
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Review
"Matthew Budd shows us how to use the experience of suffering as a catalyst for transforming our lives. How we communicate with one another and with ourselves is a powerful determinant of health."
-- Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease

"Dr. Budd's lifetime of professionally caring for people has yielded this wonderful synthesis of ancient and modern healing principles. We can benefit by following his profound yet simple approaches."
-- Herbert Benson, M.D., author of The Relaxation Response

"The simple but powerful program described in this book has been used successfully by thousands of patients to reduce suffering and get more out of life. Highly recommended."
-- Steven E. Locke, M.D., Chief, Department of Mind/Body Medicine, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates


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Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (August 14, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812929624
• ISBN-13: 978-0812929621
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #428,498 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!, December 2, 2002

By	Mark A. Taylor (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you have found Understanding Computers and Cognition by Dr Fernando Flores or the Tree of knowledge from Dr Humberto Maturana difficult to understand, this book is for you. Dr Budd does an excellent job of articulating some of the world's greatest thinkers of our time in an easy to read format. I have been studying this work for 15 years and think that this is an excellent primer. The fact that he relates it to solving health problems such as headaches, jaw and neck pain, insomnia, stomach and bowel problems, lack of energy, high blood pressure, anxiety, and depression is a bonus. Our language is inherently related to our health.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life changing, January 4, 2002

By A Customer

This book will show you how your language reveals the way you see the world and how this either opens or closes possibilities for you to be successful, to love and to be loved. This book can change your life, if you read it, do the practices and watch your language.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely wonderful and a very important book., March 13, 2002

By	Norman Bodek (Vancouver, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I wish I had read Dr. Budd's book earlier in my life. I came very close to dying once, lost a kidney, because I trusted the professional opinion of the doctor before I learned to trust my own feelings. Dr. Budd shows us how to have greater awareness and to take greater responsibility in our own healing process. The exercises in the book are important to move you from just reading to experiencing and beginning to change your life. This book should be mandatory reading at every medical school.