The Art of Confident Living: 10 Practices for Taking Control of Your Life

Reclaim Your Life and Find Your Confident Self

Do you wake up feeling afraid of facing challenges, doubting yourself, going through the motions, and lacking a zest for life? The Art of Confident Living will help you break away from this painful lifestyle and understand why you feel this way, change your perspective, and find your Confident Self.

Bestselling author and psychotherapist Bryan Robinson, Ph.D., has revised his breakthrough book Heal Your Self-Esteem to reveal how to find the Confident Self that exists naturally in all of us. He shows you how to uncover this inner resource so that you can redirect the way you handle painful past experiences, insecurities, social interactions, and personal relationships. Through his 10 easy practices and new scientific research, you will discover how to keep the confidence you find and live a more fulfilling personal, professional, and social life. The Art of Confident Living helps you discover happiness through:

- A quiz to help determine your self-confidence level—and how it most affects you
- New techniques based on brain-chemistry research to help you achieve a higher level of confidence
- Updated examples, new exercises, and case studies that illustrate productive, non-addictive behaviors that can lead you to a more self-fulfilling life

The Art of Confident Living is your guide to becoming confident, at peace, and turned on and tuned in to life.

Bryan Robinson, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of Counseling, Special Education and Child Development at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in individual, couple and family therapy.  Dr. Robinson continues to conduct research with colleagues at UNC-Charlotte on workaholism and its effects on families and children. Dr. Robinson is licensed by the State of North Carolina as a Marriage and Family Therapist and a Licensed Practicing Counselor with degrees in psychology, counseling, and child and family development. He has lectured across the United States and throughout the world on such topics as relationships, self-esteem, stress and overdoing, workaholism, latchkey kids, and many others.  He has worked as a family alcoholism counselor and clinical consultant to the Randolph Clinic, as a marketing consultant to DeVries Public Relations Firm in New York City, as a teacher and counselor in public school systems, and has taught at several colleges and universities. He has been a guest on CBS's The Early Show, CNN's Minding Your Money, ABC's 20/20, NBC's Nightly News, ABC's Good Morning America.