Your Best Life: Pathways to Happiness - Softcover

Coche Ph.D.,, Judith

9780615976532: Your Best Life: Pathways to Happiness

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615976530 ISBN 13: 9780615976532

Publisher: Optimal Life Press, 2014

Do you want to live your best life? Do you know how to create the happiest marriage in the world? Would you like to be able to evaluate psychotherapy? What are marital guts? Judith Coche takes on big questions in this small book, weaving stories from her practice in clinical psychology to illustrate how to create your own pathways to happiness. Your Best Life teaches you how to create days of personal and interpersonal happiness by knowing about the research from positive psychology and by relating to another person... She fluidly captures central factors in creating meaning in life and cheerleads for the importance of personal accomplishment in lives that flourish. Psychotherapy vignettes illuminate the psychotherapy process. Tamara relies on her adaptability to become resilient after she smashes an ankle while biking down a steep Hawaiian mountain. , Lila, denying her own pleasures to please her adult daughter, is encouraged by her group to build her core identity. Other stories illustrate Dr. Cache’s deep love of animals and unique sense of humor. In Penelope’s Water Walk, we chuckle as 18 year old pet cat Penelope unhappily endures her misery at being submerged in water because her owner hopes to extend her good years through hydrotherapy. In The Happiest Marriage in the World, we receive a tongue-in-cheek recipe with the ingredients for happy marriages, including forgiveness, humility and self-discipline. In The Heart beneath the Hard Shell, a torrid turtle love triangle develops before our eyes as tiny Rocky attempts to steal his beloved Gracie from her macho suitor Bart. These stories bring home the message of positive psychology in an easy to read and personal statement by one of the nation’s distinguished psychotherapists. You may find yourself returning again and again to these deceptively simple stories. Like fairy tales, the lessons they contain provide easy reading to enable you to live your best life.

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About the Author:

Dr. Judith Coche Dr. Judith Coche is owner of The Coche Center, LLC, a Practice in Clinical Psychology in Philadelphia and on the bay in Stone Harbor, Cape May County, New Jersey. She has authored 4 books and 6 workbooks for colleagues. Her work has been featured on Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning America, New York Times Magazine, and other sources. She is author of Making Life Work, a column in the Cape May County Herald. Dr Coche teaches and trains colleagues nationally and internationally. She is Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Perelman Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at other medical centers. Author of 35 professional articles, her work is widely used in colleague training. Dr Coche has been married "for 45+ years to "two good men." Widowed early after 24 years of marriage to Dr. Erich Coche, she remarried John Anderson 20 years ago and enjoys a rich family life with her 3 adult children, 4 grandchildren and dogs. Dr Coche's warmth, skills and wisdom has helped 60 client families monthly for over 35 years.

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