Myself Help
A Psychotherapist’s Journey toward Authenticity
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After a move across state lines, the author discovered something about herself she found unacceptable. This is everyone’s story.
Myself Help is sixty-four little chapters, divided into three sections:
“Oh, Good Grief!” explores grief from the author’s personal and professional experiences. It examines our American culture and the author’s contention that we as a society don’t honor the mourning process near enough. We are told to move on. The author shares how her personal experience with grief caused her to literally move every time she experienced significant trauma or grief. The author explains and explores conditions around grief—post-traumatic stress disorder, bereavement, and behaviors we use to adapt and soothe ourselves during these difficult times.
“Oh, !X%X! Shame!” explains the hideous feelings of shame and how a final move into the casino world highlighted this for the author with great wattage. The author brings her psychotherapy practice into the equation as the very idea of needing a therapist triggers shame. The author explains the many misconceptions about psychotherapy that contribute to our resistance in seeking help when we most need it.
Oh, Great God!” is about spirituality and metaphysics. It includes treatment—tools for change. It explains how we can help ourselves through therapy, books, and what the author believes to be the ultimate and most critical piece—having a spiritual practice. She encourages meditation and believes any practice that invites a conscious connection with our true self (divine) works. In the final analysis, Myself Help is about living an authentic life and loving your authentic self.
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Are you suffering the loss of a loved one? Feeling terribly isolated and shameful about your secret grief?
Do you believe you should be over it?
Are you considering seeing a therapist but believe you must be crazy to enter psychotherapy? Are you afraid to let a therapist know it’s been a very long time since you lost your loved one and you are still feeling lonely and devastated? Are you afraid a psychotherapist will judge you—that he or she may find out you are soothing yourself by some unacceptable behavior?
Have you stopped going to church? Cut yourself off from community and possibilities that have nurtured your spirit in the past? Are you just plain feeling badly about yourself?
Have you ever felt any of these things?
Myself Help is the story of anyone who has heard a critic in their mind, felt guilty about certain choices they’ve made, or felt loneliness while surrounded by loved ones. Dana Anderson shares her personal story while providing helpful tools for growth and healing. Myself Help is an inspirational tale told with humor.
About the Author
Dana Anderson has been practicing psychotherapy successfully for more than15 years, in California and Nevada. She is known for her directness; her ability to listen and create safety; her use of appropriate humor and metaphor; all of which help her clients find wholeness and healing. Ms. Anderson resides in Reno, Nevada where she can ride her bike to work.