What to Do While You Count To

What to Do While You Count to 10 presents an effective system for managing strong emotions resulting in better communications, relationships, and decreasing tension, shame, guilt, and conflict. Thinking about anger in positive terms is alien to most people’s experiences. However, a healthy expression of emotions - anger included - is a component of building and maintaining successful relationships.

Instead of the past chaos and pain of trying to live in an unattainable perfect world based upon another’s definition, this book contains techniques necessary for returning to the real world and using feelings in a healthy and constructive manner. This change allows love and respect to flourish by building relationships instead of destroying them.

What to Do While You Count to 10 decreases a guilty conscience of how your anger hurt others and increases the coping skills necessary to change powerful and sometimes destructive emotions into a positive force. In a make-believe therapy session, learn to recognize uncontrollable emotions and understand how to manage them. From the wisdom found in this magical little book, you will be better able to express love in constructive ways instead of hurtful destruction.

Many people enjoy the benefits of introspection, especially AA, NA, Al-Anon, and other 12 step programs. The reader will gain many bits of life’s mysteries now offered in, What to Do While You Count to 10.

David W. Earle has twenty-five years of executive management experience in the construction field. He now earns his living as a Business Coach, working with individuals and organizations to improve human relationship skills, communication abilities, and leadership principals. He assists clients in creating the changes they want to make in their businesses and in their personal lives. He earned a Master's of Science in Counseling from Texas A&M. He is a mental health counselor licensed by the State of Louisiana, actively practicing since 1992. His practice covers such issues as substance abuse, compulsive gambling, relationships, families, adolescence, anxiety, and depression. For ten years, he worked for the Baton Rouge City Court teaching an anger management to a court-ordered population. For 11 years, he was on the faculty of the University of Phoenix, teaching graduate courses in Conflict Management Systems and undergraduate courses on communications, employee motivation, diversity, sociology, and workplace substance abuse. When bank robberies, suicides, explosions, sudden death, or disasters occur, David performs Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) to assist traumatized employees. In addition, David works with the local Red Cross mental health disaster team. David has been on the panel as a mediator and/or arbitrator for various organizations such as U.S. Federal Court-Middle District, Louisiana Rehabilitation Service, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Financial Industry Regulator Authority (FINRA), and National Association of Security Dealers (NASD), Natural Futures Association (NFA), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Louisiana Supreme Court. He enjoys tennis and he lives in Baton Rouge with his wife, Penny, and their dog, Fletcher and cat Hobbes.