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Holli Kenley

Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are.
 It is forgivable to lose them...
 it is unforgivable not to reclaim them...

 Mountain Air: Relapsing And Finding The Way Back One Breath At A Time is a brutally honest personal narrative detailing a painful descent into relapse and a powerful journey back to recovering. 
 Without condemnation but with passion and purpose, Mountain Air ... 
 Embraces individuals who have abandoned their authentic ways of being for a life of personal neglect, indulgence, or self-destruction. Speaks to individuals who have betrayed their healing tenets - the addict who has lost his sobriety, the abused who has returned to her abuser, or the codependent who continues to rescue the uncontrollable. Reaches out to individuals who have maintained a life of stability and wellness, but who are eroding over time - and losing their sense of self and of spirit.

 Mountain Air is for any individual who has experienced relapse and who is fighting to find his way back... By inviting readers to take a journey with the author as she shares time-tested lessons in the recovering process. By providing thoughtful and accountable exercises with each chapter that guide the reader in the reclaiming and sustaining of their truths.

 Praise for Kenley's Mountain Air
 "...a personal memoir out of which she extracts principles that can be generalized to all who are in recovery, inspiring them to take courage. This poetic and nature-infused account should become a standard for all therapists and all in the process of recovery."
 --David Van Nuys, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Host of Shrink Rap Radio

 "With Holli's inspiring personal journey from relapse to recovery and her challenging questions in each chapter, the reader can examine self-defeating behaviors and beliefs that block the natural ability to walk through change, pain, and difficult times."
 --Melissa Yarbray, M.A., Marriage and Family Therapist,Licensed Advanced Alcohol & Drug Counselor

Loving Healing Press

New Horizons in Therapy

Mountain Air: Relapsing and Finding The Way Back... One Breath at a Time

Are you ready to heal?
 Breaking Through Betrayal: And Recovering the Peace Within is for any individual who has experienced betrayal and is struggling to break through its bonds. Through a proven process tailored for recovery from betrayal injury, readers are invited to: Explore and connect with the different kinds of betrayal: rejection or abandonment; a violation of trust; a shattered truth or belief. Identify and move through betrayal's three States of Being - confusion, worthlessness, and powerlessness - while uncovering contributors of symptom intensity and duration. Revive and restore mind, body, and spirit with a 5-part recovering process for "righting oneself" and attend to re-occurrence or re-injury.

 New in this Second Edition of Breaking Through Betrayal, readers are offered a unique perspective on a timeless topic -- relapse. By reframing relapse as a familiar experience and redefining it as an issue of self-betrayal, readers are: Drawn into a safe conversation while breaking through the stigma, secrecy, and shame of returning to any kind of unhealthy pattern of thinking, behaving, or feeling. Invited to partake in an empowering 6-part recovering process in moving from self-betrayal to self-discovery.

 Therapists Praise Breaking Through Betrayal
 "Useful for anyone caught in self-blame, shame or repeated victimization...this empowering 'in-control' approach can help readers take charge, assess injury, gauge healing and find excellent strategies to protect themselves from future trauma when relating to one's betrayer."
 --Beth Hedva, Ph.D. author of award-winning Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness

 "Holli Kenley shares her comprehensive approach to a situation most of us experience at least once in our lifetimes - betrayal. As a former therapist, I appreciate the author's ability to take a complex topic and turn it into an uncomplicated and well-organized read, including easy-to-follow exercises at the end of each chapter. This book is an important resource for anyone experiencing grief and loss as the result of betrayal. Read it and 'recover the peace within.'"
 --Janet A. Hopkins, Editor-in-Chief, In Recovery Magazine

 About the Author
 Holli Kenley, M.A., is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Specializing in the areas of sexual trauma, abuse, addiction, codependency, betrayal and cyber bullying, Holli currently works in the field of psychology as an author, speaker, and workshop presenter.
 Self-Help : Abuse - Psychological

Breaking Through Betrayal: And Recovering the Peace Within

Heyward Ewart

Find Your Way to Freedom Today!
 If you were abused or neglected as a child, chances are that you have been your whole life, whether you are a man, a woman, or a teen. Child abuse so mangles the personality that the victim unconsciously attracts abusers throughout the life cycle. Lies about yourself were planted deep in your mind by the abuse, and you still believe them. Until you understand exactly what the abuse did to you, you cannot get free. Soul Rape: Recovering Personhood After Abuse provides an effective 7-step program for use by victims, their therapists, and for group work.
 In this book, survivors and professionals will discover: How celebrities become addicts Why twelve-step programs don't work and can be extremely harmful What a faith-based 7-step program for abuse recovery can do for you How addressing abuse solves cycle of addiction Why mental illness is a reaction to somebody else's craziness How group work can transform victims into survivors Why "bootleg" churches are starving souls and endangering America
 PLUS A Test to Find DANGEROUS STUDENTS before it's too late

 Therapists acclaim for Soul Rape
 "Soul Rape is a tour de force of the tortured landscape of child abuse and its pernicious long-term outcomes. Numerous case studies expertly intertwine with theoretical insights to produce the equivalent of a comprehensive and unconventional treatment modality. This book is an important contribution toward the edification of victims and institutions alike."
 --Sam Vaknin, PhD, author Malignant Self-Love

 "This book should be compulsory reading for anyone dealing with abused children or abused adults, or adult survivors of childhood abuse: physicians, psychologists, and other therapists, teachers, protective workers, and so on. And the language is so clear and nontechnical that it will be of enormous benefit to the survivors of trauma themselves, and even to parents who want to ensure the safety and wellbeing of their children."
 --Robert Rich, PhD, M.A.P.S, A.A.S.H.

Soul Rape: A Practical Guide: Recovering Personhood after Abuse

Sandra L. Ceren

Expand Your Clinical Practice with this Practical Hands-on Guide Teach conflict resolution skills to your couples Introspective quizzes expose more of couples' inner lives and past history to each other Real-life exercises let couples practice cooperative decision- making and compromise before a crisis happens. Couples will discover and have the opportunity to change bad habits which threaten the viability of the relationship.

Therapists Acclaim for Essentials of Pre-Marital Counseling

"An invaluable ten-week program of specific steps to evaluate a relationship, detect warning signs and avoid disastrous pitfalls before committing to marriage."
--Holly A. Hunt, PhD, author of Essentials of Private Practice 

"What I find most rewarding about this book is what Dr. Ceren refers to as 'The art of gracious compromise'-or what may be called-how to get along in your relationship. Therapists take heed, this book is for you and your clients! You will benefit greatly."
--Michael J. Salamon, Ph.D., FICPP, Senior Psychologist/Director, Adult Developmental Center, Author of The Shidduch Crisis

"A remarkable roadmap to a healthy relationship and insight into self, written by a therapist who combines experience and skill in improving the lives of others." 
--Rosalee G. Weiss, PhD Diplomate, American Board of Psychological Specialties Book #7 in the New Horizons in Therapy Series

Essentials of Pre-Marital Counseling: Creating Compatible Couples

Tami Brady

• Only 1% of the world's assets are held in the name of women. 
 • 70% of people in abject poverty--living on less than $1 per day--are women. 
 • Over half the women of this generation do not themselves receive, from either employment or the state, enough to 'get by'. 
 
These shocking statistics call to our attention the importance of financial independence among women. Financial dependence, though, is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Dependence can also be noted in Validation and Self Esteem; Mobility and Daily Care; and Emotional Support and A Shield from the World. Loving, caring, and well meaning spouses, families, and caregivers can unwittingly gnaw away at self confidence and self esteem until a person is unwittingly trapped in an unhealthy situation. 

Are you at risk?
 

 • Would you be financially secure without your spouse's income? 
 • Do you find? it hard to say "no"? 
 • Do you feel unlovable or ugly? 
 • Have you given up on your dreams? 
 • Are you truly unhappy with your life? 
 
If so, there is hope! It is possible to regain your self esteem, rebuild your self confidence, and become independent once more. 

Independence is a skill, an attitude, and a lifestyle that anyone can achieve. 

Praise for Tami Brady:
 

"The main point I saw in this work, and one I thought was outstanding, is that we are all individuals, unique and that one set formula may not work for everyone. I believe that is what makes her work different than other self-help books." -Shirley Johnson, Midwest Book Review
 
"I found myself submersed in this book, discovering it a true source of encouragement, that however overwhelming life becomes, we should stay aware of what we want, never forgetting where we come from or what our dreams are." -Tracy Jane-Newton, An Alternative View
 
"If you have been thinking there must be more to life than what you have; or you find you tend to say one thing in public, whilst being of an-other opinion in private, then this book may be for you." -Sue Phillips, Spiralthreads Reviews

Regaining Control: When Love Becomes a Prison

Charles L. Allen

Suppose that four simple instinctual directives helped to bring about the survival of the human species. While good for survival purposes, those directives have also been at the heart of most human problems. 

Why Good People Make Bad Choices takes you on a journey of self-discovery by way of new insights about the human condition. The instinctual directives we follow are described as--the ego's agenda. Due to this agenda, we experience problematic feelings, maintain maladaptive thoughts, and engage in behaviors that we know are not in our best interest--indeed, we make bad choices. The solution is integrity. With this book you can learn how to: 

Create integrity, and recognize it in others. 

Create peace of mind. 

Resolve problematic feelings that may interfere with sustaining integrity. 

Create a self-image you can be proud of. 

Transform any unwanted behavior or thoughts into new valued behavior. 

Understand and manage anger, worry, guilt, bad habits, anxiety, and depression.
 
Why Good People Make Bad Choices is for the individual who wants to experience a more harmonious inner nature, or establish a new direction for their life.
 
"As you begin to consistently live out your belief system, one choice at a time, your trust in the outcome of integrity will be the incentive to continue. Positive results will prevail, and you will be evolving." 

What People Are Saying About Why Good People Make Bad Choices
 

"I find this to be a very valuable framework for therapy, and for living a good life generally. It is a challenging book that can lead one to a new, more satisfying life."
 --Robert Rich, PhD, author Cancer: A Personal Challenge.
 

"Why Good People Make Bad Choices is an incredible tool to aid in the transcendence of the ego and to initiate the establishment of a personal belief system in order to live life with integrity."
 --Richard A. Singer Jr., psychotherapist, author Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds
 

"Thought-provoking and well worth the time, this book should be read once throughout and then repeatedly and in small doses. It is bound to trigger a lot of introspection, something we sorely lack in modern life."
 --Sam Vaknin, author Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited
 

From the New Horizons in Therapy Series

Why Good People Make Bad Choices: How You Can Develop Peace of Mind Through Integrity

Rick Ritter

This workbook provides more than 50 questions and exercises designed to empower those with physical loss and disability to better understand and accept their ongoing processes of loss and recovery. The exercises in Coping with Physical Loss and Disability were distilled from twenty-five years of clinical social work experience with clients suffering from quadriplegia, paraplegia, amputation, cancer, severe burns, HIV/AIDs, and neuro-muscular disorders arising from accidents, injury, and disease.

 "Rick Ritter captures the depth of the emotional pain in the aftermath of physical loss and disability." 
-- Rev. James W. Clifton, Ph.D., LCSW

 "The examples given by the author are very relevant and will help the sufferer relate to similar situations." 
-- S.V. Swamy, Holistic Healer and editor of Homeopathy For Everyone

 It helped me identify feelings I was unaware of, like anger, and I put on paper how lonely I am. 
-- J.B., a reader who has used this book to change her life.

 This workbook is a very good stimulus for focusing on issues crucial for better coping with loss and disability. 
-- Beni R. Jakob, Ph.D, Israeli Arthritis Foundation (INBAR)

 About the Author
 Rick Ritter, MSW, a disabled veteran and social worker, has worked with hundreds of clients who have experienced physical loss and disability. This workbook is a distillation of the very best questions and exercises to draw the client towards re-taking control of their life. He has competed in international events for disabled athletes. Ritter was also a major contributor to got parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Identity Disorder. He currently resides in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

Coping with Physical Loss and Disability: A Manual

A. T. W

Finally a book for survivors written by a survivor!

Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group. This book is filled with successful coping techniques and strategies to enhance the day-to-day functioning of adult survivors of DID in relationships, work, parenting, self-confidence, and self-care. Got Parts will help you introduce yourself to your internal family and improve its communication, integration, and well-being. Although written to carefully avoid triggering, it delivers well-grounded guidelines for living that DID people need to do on the way to recovery. Coping strategies included help you with issues related to triggers, flashbacks, and body memories. Got Parts also includes a detailed list of outside resources you can draw on. This book is intended to be used in conjunction with a therapist and is not a substitute for therapy.

Once thought of as a rare and mysterious psychiatric curiosity, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is now understood to be a fairly common outcome of severe trauma in young children--most typically extreme and repeated physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse, and often lack of attachment. Formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder, DID is a condition in which a person has two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of the person's consciousness and behavior. Symptoms can include depression, mood swings, panic or anxiety attacks, substance abuse, memory loss, propensity for trances, sleep and eating disorders, distrust, detachment, lack of self-care, and distress or impairment at work.

Acclaim for Got Parts> from Therapists and Survivors

"Got Parts? is a very well-conceived and useful tool, particularly for those treating DID from a more functional perspective." -- Peter A. Maves, Ph. D., ISSD Fellow

"Got Parts is great tool for working therapeutically with ones internal family." -- Patricia Sherman, LCSW

"I particularly liked the chapter which emphasises the importance of taking care of body, mind and spirit holistically." -- Kathryn Livingston, Chairperson, First Person Plural (UK) 

"I strongly recommend this book as an easily read, straightforward and insightful recovery tool for my clients with DID." -- Ian Landry, MA MSW RSW, Nova Scotia, Canada

"I will require got parts for new clients, refer it to other therapists and have even recommended it for others." -- Karen Hutchins, MA LPC

ATW's approach reflects that of Truddi Chase, a DID victim who prefers her alters live in a harmonious community. -- Metapsychology Online Review, Dec. 22, 2005