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Contemporary times have seen a growing malaise affecting our youth. Gang membership has grown 40 percent in three years, suicide is up 89 percent in twelve-to fourteen-year-old adolescents in the last two decades, anti-depressant use in children is up over 400 percent and 40 percent of all children are born outside of marriage. Bullying, cutting, anorexia, and antisocial personality disorders are all on the rise.

Running on Empty presents a powerful case for the cause behind these destructive trends, and offers a hopeful and unique paradigm to help youth transcend their deepening pain. Through blending ancient wisdom with contemporary psychological insights, this book offers a comprehensive path for transformation that can end youth's suffering and reverse the downward-spiraling trends.

Jim Nelson worked for fifteen years as a licensed psychologist at the Family Life Mental Health Center. He served on the Anoka County Mental Health Advisory Board (MN) as an advocate for the mentally ill, taught high school psychology for over twenty years, and spent the last twelve years as a clinical psychologist. Nelson has also taught meditation for more than thirty years and is vice-president of AHYMS, an association of meditation centers throughout North and South America. Recently retired from teaching and private practice, he remains active in his business, Nelson's Interactive Seminars, traveling and speaking all over the world. Nelson graduated magna cum laude in psychology from the University of Minnesota and holds two masters degrees. He lives just north of Minneapolis with his wife, Candice, and their dog, Desi.