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Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook (Applications of Motivational Interviewin)

Developing expertise in motivational interviewing (MI) takes practice, which is exactly the point of this engaging, user-friendly workbook. The volume is packed with real-world examples from a range of clinical settings, as well as sample interactions and hands-on learning activities. The author is an experienced MI researcher, clinician, and trainer who facilitates learning with quizzes, experiential exercises, and reproducible worksheets. The reader learns step by step how to practice core MI skills: raising the importance of behavior change, fostering the client’s confidence, resolving ambivalence, solidifying commitment to change, and negotiating a change plan. The utility of the book is enhanced by the large-size format and lay-flat binding. The book shows how to navigate each session using microskills that many clinicians already know: open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening and summaries, or OARS for short.

This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series.

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Self-Worth, Self-Esteem, Journaling, Mix and Match Healing Hydrotherapy, Lovingkindness Meditation, Support System (Building Your Self Esteem)

“The concept of energy and the flow of that energy in the human body is the core of the current explosion in healing. The healing principle is to “balance” the energy in the body by using relaxation to counter the body’s reaction to stress.” The Berkeley Holistic Health Center

The High Energy Life Plan integrates all the tools for living a healthy, balanced life. Many times busy people will see or read something that they would love to integrate into their lives. They also lack the time to plan and execute a total health plan.

The High Energy Life for Kindle includes 12 separate ebooks each priced at $1.99. Each week has a number from 1-12 to keep the weeks separate. Each week has individual choices for food/diet choices, exercise choices, and emotional/mental techniques for stress reduction. All the pretests, measurements, references for each of the three categories (diet, exercise, and emotional/mental tools) are given.

Our goal is that each person using the High Energy Life Plan can create and continually change her/his health plan. Health takes effort to maintain. Each of us needs to know what we need to attain our highest level of health.

Daily we are experiencing an overload of information. By using RSS feeds and RSS readers, we have become accustomed to “sound bites”. So the High Energy Diet contains many descriptive links so you may use the individual information that you choose. So instead of our publishing a book for you, we have published all the information links that you can choose to create your own, individual book to use for your High Energy Life.

To increase energy:
Physically—Use exercise to burn off stress reactions and creating your own food plan around the foods you love
Mentally—Learn how to realign your thoughts because your feelings come from your thoughts.
Emotionally—Reparent yourself to heal childhood wounds
Socially—Develop a social network of 5-10 people
Spiritually—Live to become the best you can be
Each of the 12 High Energy Links ebooks contains different topics. This is a master list of the topics for each week.
Week One-

Deep breathing techniques
Calorie needs
Stretching exercises
Beginning meditations
Before losing weight, pay attention to these
Walking as exercise

Week Two-

Balanced life
Being centered
Body scan
Breathing meditation
Types of meditation
Weekly action plan

Week Three-

BMI body mass index
Your observer self-transactional analysis
Sitting-walking-eating meditations
Cardiovascular exercises
Introducing yoga into your life

Week Four—

Affirmations—autosuggestions
30-35 grams of fiber daily
Carbohydrates
Flexibility exercises
Heart rate
Formal walking meditation
Prayer suggestions

Week Five—

Assertiveness
Coping techniques
Creative visualizations
Creativity
Relaxation meditation
Strength training

Week Six—

Autogenic training
Endurance exercise
Job stress management
Mantra meditation
Protein

Week Seven—

Hydrotherapy
Journaling
Loving kindness meditation
Mix and match healing
Self worth
Support system
Time management
Water

Week Eight—

Communication
Reaching a plateau
Nutrition
Progressive muscle relaxation
Partner meditation
Relationships

Week Nine—

Low calorie diets
Empowerment
Fitness
Light therapy
Rational thinking

Week Ten—

Concentration meditation
Forgiveness
Goal setting
Inner child
Interval training
Reflexology

Week Eleven—

Acupuncture
Alexander technique
Compassion
Glycemic index
Massage
Self-hypnosis
Visualization meditation

Week Twelve—

Acupressure
Art therapy
Prayer walking
Raising energy meditation
Therapeutic touch
Age and exercise

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Building Self-Confidence (Card Deck)

Today, everyone seems to be losing confidence in their ability to stay competitive in a rapidly changing society. The reality of our times is that everyone is feeling at least a little unsure of him or herself, and in that sense everyone is in the same boat.

This eBook shares useful, everyday tips for you to stay confident at work and throughout all aspects of your life.