Mindful Choices for Well-Being: Mindful Awareness, Great Choices, Powerful Habits--with Mindful Choices Therapy
Categories: Books, Self-Help, Happiness



Dimensions: 6 x 0.94 x 9 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1457558764
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1457558769
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Print length: 434 pages
Publication date: September 11, 2017
subtitle: Hardcover – September 11, 2017
author: William Shearer Visit Amazon's Robin L Shearer Page search results Robin L Shearer
review: Editorial Reviews Review "[The Shearer's] skillfully illustrate their points ... that happiness can be achieved by transforming how one perceives, interprets, and responds to circumstances. ...this is a book that's rich with ideas, fresh perspectives, and practical exercises ... A successful, thorough guide to self-awareness and personal growth." Kirkus Reviews From the Author "Life is the sum total of all your choices" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This is a book about choices, or more precisely, this is your personal guidebook to making frequent and consistent small choices that will dramatically reduce stress, anxiety and depression while promoting balance and resilience. Even more important, you'll be introduced to assessment based choices and decisions that can be transformative, leading to deep satisfaction with life, and an overall sense of well-being. Are you struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, food and weight issues, addictive or compulsive behaviors, stress-induced self-damaging reactivity or stressful relationship problems? Are you feeling overstimulated and overwhelmed by daily frustrations and tensions, or not having much fun and not having the life you wanted? Are you much too self-critical? Are you struggling to break free of bad habits or having difficulty forming positive and sustainable new ones? We've all been there.These are all human qualities and virtually universal. Don't be discouraged. Today you are one step closer to a new you. This is a book about a systematic, holistic, and action oriented process of choosing and creating well-being. It's a guidebook outlining a process of regularly assessing your well-being across 10 Mindful Choices dimensions, focusing your attention, sustaining a high level of motivation, and creating lasting positive changes through ongoing intention,awareness, focus, and practice. It's not just another self-help book, but a complete "how-to" manual for life-planning. About the Author William Shearer and Robin Shearer , authors of Mindful Choices for Well-Being: Mindful Awareness, Great Choices, Powerful Habits--with Mindful Choices Therapy William Shearer (Bill) and Robin Shearer are Southern California therapists. Bill is a psychologist and organizational consultant. Robin is a Marriage and Family Therapist and trainer. Together, the Shearers have run a psychological center and organizational consulting center in Redlands, California for more than 30 years. They have three specializations in their clinical work: troubled relationships, treatment of addictions, and the treatment of stress and anxiety disorders. With seven graduate degrees between them, the Shearers have developed a holistic treatment known as Mindful Choices Therapy. Years ago, the Shearers realized that traditional treatment modalities aimed mainly at reducing distress didn't go far enough in creating lasting emotional balance and well-being. Their clients wanted more. They wanted to thrive. Thus Mindful Choices Therapy was created out of the Shearers' recognition that well-being and thriving are multifaceted and rooted in choice and habit. When mindful awareness is coupled with making great choices systematically practiced to the point of powerful and enduring lifelong habits, well-being and thriving result. Mindful Choices Therapy considers 10 Mindful Choice areas. Four pillars support Mindful Choices Therapy, and these are seamlessly integrated within the program: Mindfulness, contemplative traditions, Buddhist psychology, and Stoicism; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, and other mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapies; Positive Psychology and Well-Being Theory; Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience. The Shearers' lifelong mission is facilitating growth and change in others. Mindful Choices Therapy has proven to be an ideal vehicle for personal transformation to well-being. Read more