Self-esteem, positivity, and emotional resilience are foundational behavioral attributes for good psychological health. Like other behaviors, these key habits can be developed and improved with practice. They all depend upon a critical skill, emotional self-regulation.

Unfortunately, most of us have had little if any formal education on emotions or how to regulate them. placing us at a serious disadvantage when it comes to promoting our own mental health. Three questions offer insight into the concept of emotional self-regulation: 1) What are emotions?  2) Where do emotions come from?, and 3) How do we improve them?

I typically ask my clients these questions when we begin work together.  Very few (read as virtually none) have satisfactory answers.  How can they rely on themselves to stay well emotionally over time without this knowledge?  How can they correctly fix their sagging emotions?   How can they fix poor self-worth? How do they correctly manage anxiety? By correctly I mean behaviorally. Please reflect on your answers to the three questions. I will discuss the answers in an a future  post.

 NEW: CBT SYSTEM TRAINING FOR PRACTITIONERS

       Individualized training in the use of my integrated Cognitive-Behavioral/Positive Psychology System is now available for psychologists, counselors and graduate-level trainees.  By incorporating this new and empowering CBT methodology in your treatment approach, you can help your clients better their success in achieving optimal and enduring emotional health and well-being.  For more information, please call my office or reach me through Psychology Today at (215) 883-8881.

     I like working with people who really want to learn how to better manage and improve their emotional health and happiness. For me this means a little less time looking backward and more time moving forward, developing skills that will help them master their present and future.  I work with all age groups and with many kinds of "presenting problems:" self-esteem, assertiveness, self-confidence, anxiety, depression, addiction, loss and lots more.

     My ideal clients want to move past these issues by finding tools which will enable them to optimize their behavioral health and happiness, as well as ward off future problems, on their own.  To assist new clients in their journey,  I encourage and teach them to learn and use the new CBT system for emotional health and well-being that is carefully explained in the 2019 edition of Think Right, Feel Right.

Think Right, Feel Right: "Now you can chat with the author when you purchase this CBT guide

                            THINK RIGHT, FEEL RIGHT

New: Chat with the author!  People like chatting with authors about their books. Now you can here. When you purchase Think Right, Feel Right, you also get the opportunity to discuss this book with the author if you wish. Just text me at (215) 520-6803. Provide this purchase code (TRFR11119) and a good time to reach you. I will do my best to make it happen.

Think Right, Feel Right is a self-help book that actually shows you how. Using this easy-to-follow guide, you will improve your ability  to: 1) regulate your emotions; 2) ward off anxiety, depression, addiction as well as other problems; 3) build lasting self-esteem, and 4) sustain emotional well-being. With crystal-clear wording, the guide teaches you how to form the kind of mindset that will benefit you for a lifetime. You will have a complete tool set for lasting optimal emotional health.

Many operate under the illusion that we can diagnose and treat our way to emotional health. All we need is some medication or talk therapy. But too often, diagnose-and-treat strategies result in patching the tire rather than in providing better ones that remain road worthy. Patches fail. Treatment centers become revolving doors.

Talking our troubles away doesn't work very well. Experience is not the best teacher for emotional health either. Simply put, life experience does not assure reliable guidance or expertise for emotional health. We must look elsewhere for positive and more lasting solutions: solutions which give us the hands-on ability to steer away from emotional difficulties, build strong intrinsic self-esteem, and sustain happiness over a lifetime.

Think Right, Feel Right helps us develop these skills. Incorporating cutting-edge strategies from behavioral science, this innovative guide carefully and clearly presents the tools for achieving optimal emotional health. Step-by-step the guide teaches us how to solve problems with worry and anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and addiction, and build lasting emotional well-being. We learn how to regulate our thoughts and emotions, mindfully control our emotional well-being and live a happier life.

Life affords no guarantee that we learn how to feel well. If we don't know how to self-nurture or regulate our emotions correctly, happiness and emotional well-being will be scarce. We rely on substitutes like spending, eating, working, or alcohol and other drugs to prop up our sagging moods, increasing the chance for an addiction. Or, we struggle along with low self-esteem, anxiety and depression and try to buffer these telltale symptoms with medication. Think Right feel Right puts us on the right path: it teaches us how to feel well and stay feeling well.

Offering cover-to-cover self-help, Think Right, Feel Right delivers its powerful, behavior changing-message with logic and clarity. Its down-to-earth style, helpful examples, chapter summaries and study guide questions make it easy for readers to follow and learn from as well as apply in everyday life. Filled with evidenced-based, cognitive-behavioral tools, the guide empowers transformative personal growth, extending the opportunity for real help to many.

Although Think Right, Feel Right is not intended to be a substitute for professional help when indicated, it offers a long-needed, behavioral self-help for those seeking to improve their emotional health and well-being. Think Right, Feel Right is also an important educational resource for mental health professionals, educators, parents and others who are share interest in promoting emotional welfare and happiness.

Find out more about Think Right, Feel Right. Go to Google Books or Amazon.com where you can preview it online.

Join us on March 24 at a local March For Our Lives event near you:

The horrific mass shooting in Parkland, Florida last month left our country reeling with grief — and now millions of Americans across the country are standing together, ready to take action. Led by the courageous students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, on March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets nationwide and in Washington D.C. We're marching to demand that our lives and safety become a priority, and that we end gun violence in our schools and communities.

Join us on March 24 at a local March For Our Lives event near you:

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March 24
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Doylestown township, PA
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March 24
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March 24
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Philadelphia, PA
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With hundreds of marches already scheduled, and more being created every day, gun sense champions across the globe will have the chance to stand in solidarity with the students of Parkland to demand action.

Take the next step: Attend a March For Our Lives event in your community on March 24.

Thank you for standing with us all in the fight to end gun violence.

Brynne Craig 
Senior Advisor to the President
Everytown for Gun Safety

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Ask As Many As You Can Today To Join Our Petition: #"Children United To End School Violence Now: Make Your Voice Heard"

Now, our children cry out for action. They want an end to these mass shootings. They want their schools and communities to be safe. We must hear them. We must strengthen school security, limit or ban the sale of assault-style weapons, prioritize the mental health of America's students, and prevent people with serious mental health problems from owning guns. Though inaction, we have failed our children and each other.

Take this action now.  Contact everyone you know through Twitter, Facebook, and email and urge them to support our petition. Please be sure to include this link to the petition.