Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times - Softcover

David Viscott

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9780070586284: Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070586284 ISBN 13: 9780070586284

Publisher: Tata McGraw-Hill, 2004

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Finding Your Strength In Difficult Times is loaded with easy-to-read concepts that aim to bring about a fresh outlook to life for the reader, and is infused with positivity. Summary Of The Book Finding Your Strength In Difficult Times is a book that helps readers draw on their inner strength for healing. The book contains small chapters enabling quick reading. The readers can choose from various topics to help soothe their anger, fears, jealousy, and grief. It provides advice on how to discover one's self and potential, how to overcome loss, and relate to other people in a more harmonious manner. It even inspires people to chase their goals and reach for their hearts' desires. The meditations provided in the book are ideal to feed one's inner person and help develop the mind spiritually and emotionally. The philosophy in the book is not filled with jargon, but is easy for readers to grasp. It helps to motivate people who are going through a difficult phase in life. Finding Your Strength In Difficult Times is written with immense honesty and readers can identify with situations in the book. It provides solutions and simple tips that can be followed to get oneself out of the rut. The author makes an effort to point out to readers that they are not alone in dealing with pain. Finding Your Strength In Difficult Times helps readers develop an appreciation towards life.

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From the Back Cover:

I do not try to be accepted.
I do not search for love.
I want only to be me and am grateful
for the gift of myself.

The road of life is seldom a smooth one--it's dotted with potholes, treacherous turns, speed bumps, and numerous detours. While it's easy to lose your way traveling along such a road, you need not despair. This comforting, portable book will help you find your inner strength. The many mediations and affirmations collected in Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times will help you recognize and nurture your innate strengths and gifts. These practical insights and sensitive reflections will be welcome guideposts as you make you way through difficult times.

About the Author:

David Viscott was an author, noted psychiatrist, and entrepreneur. He is also the author of Emotionally Free: Letting Go of the Past to Live in the Moment, How to Live with Another Person, What Every Kid Should Know, and Labyrinth of Silence. He was born on May 24, 1938, and studied at Dartmouth College. He soon began his own private practise and later taught psychiatry at UCLA. He was also the founder of the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy. He was one the earliest psychiatrists to have his own talk show on radio and provided free counselling on air. He even had his own TV show called Getting in Touch with Dr. David Viscott, before appearing on KNBC in a weekly show called Night Talk with Dr. David Viscott. The Making of a Psychiatrist, which was Viscott's autobiography became a huge hit and even received a Pulitzer Prize nomination.

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