Self-Help Library
All of the articles below are in PDF format and are summaries of some popular books on the subject.
1. Communication
- Listening Pointers
- Art of Understanding
- Pointers for Deflecting
- Beliefs that Aid Communication
- Pointers for Effective Expression
- Dance of Deflection
- Effective Expression
2. Your Family of Origin
- Observation Sheet for Family Meetings
- Diagramming the Drama
- Pointers for Differentiating
- Differentiating From Your Family of Origin
- Understanding Your Family Drama
- Differentiating in Marriage and Parenthood
- Levels of Differentiation
3. Relationships
- Helping Your Partner to Defuse You
- Beckoning Instead of Chasing
- Relationship Work Sheet
- Beliefs that Help Relationships
- Restoring Romance
- Causes and Cures of Relationship Problems
- Rules of Change
- Communication that Cures Problems
- Training Partners to be Helpful
- Defusing Your Partner
- Turning Control and Jealousy into Passion
- Disorders That Effect Relationships
- Turning Good-bye into Hello
- Dissolving Sexual Differences
- Yin Yang Questionnaire
- Facts You May not Know About Sex
- Forgiveness “Want to go deeper on forgiveness? I’ve developed a complete 18-lesson audio course on the practice of letting go — beginning with a free guided technique. [Experience it here →]
- Gender Gap Facts
4. Children
- Actions that encourage obedience
- Directives That Defy Resistance
- Attitudes and Backtalk
- Disagreeable Distant Adult Children
- Behavior Contract
- Extra Measures for Extreme Behavior
- Be Kind to Others Worksheet
- Incentives That Require Cooperation
- Beliefs that Empower Parents
- Limiting Power
- Child-Rearing Beliefs
- Moral Matters
- Child-Rearing Skills
- Responses that Reduce Anger
- Daily Routines and Habits
- School Related Problems
- Dependent Adult Children
5. Anxiety
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6. Obsessions and Compulsions
- Avoidance Identification Worksheet
- Practicing with Imagery
- Beliefs that Help OCD and TTM
- Preventing Rituals
- Extra Help for OCD
- Refocusing and Modifying Techniques
- Imagery Practice
- Ritual Identification Chart
- OCD Checklist
- Trichotillomania
- Planning for Recovery
- Weekly Progress Record for Trichotillomania
- Practicing Exposure
7. Depression
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- Banishing the Darkness of Depression
- Mood Chart
- Extra Help for Mood Disorders
- Mood Rollercoaster
- Getting a Grip on Guilt
- Sadness and Depression
- Getting Down When You are Too High
- Types of Temperament
- Good Grief
- Women and Depression
8. Anger
“Carrying persistent emotions that won’t seem to shift? My free Letting Go Technique is a 10-minute guided practice for releasing any emotion that has overstayed its welcome. [Try it free →]“
- Anger and Violence
- Inflexible Explosive Children
- Beliefs that Ease Anger
- Practice Makes Peace
- Claim it and Aim It
- Profiles of Anger
- Extra Help for Anger
- Taking Danger Out of Anger
9. ADD and ADHD
- Detecting Attention Deficits
- Achievement Productivity and Behavior
- Extra Help for ADD and ADHD
- ADD at Home and the Workplace
- Limits and Benefits of Medication
- ADD Types and Look-a-Likes
- Organization and Transitions
- Alternative Treatment for ADD and ADHD
- Social Skills
- Attention Deficits Causes and Cures
10. Dealing with Your Personality
- Better Living Through Chemistry
- Finding Strength in Surrender
- Caring less about Abandonment
- Prizing Imperfections
- Conquering the Divide
- Self Discovery
- Disorders of the Self
- Starting the Search
- Extra Help for Disorders of the Self
- Valuing Your Ordinary