Building a Strong Sense of Self

This book empowers you to build a stronger sense of yourself by cultivating principles that support self-compassion. 

Through raising awareness and mindfulness, it helps you make better choices during times of stress and achieve your wellness goals. 

Building a Strong Sense of Self: Embarking on the Journey of Change was primarily written and published to help people make lasting lifestyle changes (i.e., reach and maintain weight loss or sobriety). This book has achieved more than it aimed for: It has resonated with many people, regardless of their lifestyle, age, race, or sex; helped couples; and, transformed relationships.

• A WORD OF CAUTION: Please be advised that this book delivers its message in a forthright manner. This approach is used to achieve the desired goal of breaking the wall of resistance (i.e., the defense mechanism of avoidance) that protects our inner wounds but makes us remain stuck. Clearly then, some readers may experience a short-term inner turmoil while reading this book as the bandage is removed and the wounded core becomes exposed.

It is when we allow ourselves to attend to our core wounds that we heal and become free to move onward and reach total wellness. For this reason, this book has been transformational for many readers.   

Carl Jung: "What you resist, persists."   John Gray: "What you feel, you can heal."

Please note that the original work was published in May 2018 as THE INNER CONTROL IS THE TRUE CONTROL: Making Lasting Lifestyle Changes / BOOK 1-BUILDING A STRONG SENSE OF SELF.