Special Guest Dr. Ronald J. Frederick, Author of Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want
Hello everyone!
I am very happy to announce that on Tuesday and Wednesday, I will be welcoming psychologist and life coach Dr. Ronald J. Frederick to Long Relationships. He will be here talking about relationships and his book Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want, which helps teach us to embrace our emotions.
By way of introduction, here is a little bit about Dr. Frederick and his book:
About Dr. Frederick
Ronald J. Frederick, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and life coach, with over 15 years of experience helping people get the life they really want.
A long-time proponent of the transforming power of emotion, he co-founded the Center for Courageous Living, which offers innovative therapy, coaching and consulting. Noted for his warmth, humor, and engaging presentation style, he lectures and facilitates workshops nationally.
Frederick is a senior faculty member of the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute, as well as the Clinical Supervisor of Park House, an outpatient program at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.
About Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want
So many of us long to feel more alive, connected, and secure in our lives, particularly now, in these challenging and difficult times. Why is it so hard? Part of the problem, says Dr. Ronald J. Frederick, has to do with a fear of our feelings—a feelings‐phobia—and the consequences of expressing our feelings to others. It’s this fear that keeps us stuck, detached from the wisdom inside us and distanced from the people around us.
And yet positive emotional experiences can actually “rewire” our brain and free us up to experience ourselves and our lives more fully. LIVING LIKE YOU MEAN IT: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want by Ronald J. Frederick, shows how we can overcome our feelings phobia in order to enjoy more satisfying lives.
Drawing on cutting edge science, many years as a psychotherapist and his own personal experiences, Dr. Frederick advocates that we understand and express the broad range of our emotions so that our feelings actually become allies in our search for fulfillment. His proven four-step process for tapping into the hidden power of our emotions includes:
*Recognizing the signs of fears in ourselves, and the defenses we unknowingly use to cut ourselves off from our potential power.
*Understanding how to tame our fear and exercise control.
*Learning how to experience our true emotions and make use of their many resources.
*Developing effective, measured ways to express and share our feelings.
A master story‐teller, Frederick interlaces therapeutic techniques with stories from people who have learned to recognize and deal constructively with the emotions that have kept them from living their best lives. The trick, Dr. Frederick shows, is in being able to navigate and diminish the fear that is so entangled with our feelings, so we can progress in a healthier, less encumbered direction, and get the life we really want.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:18 am
It’s great to be here!!
June 20th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Hello! I am glad you were able to be a guest here.
My husband and I are both reading your book, and it has been an interesting lesson for both of us to say the least!