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You describe your life as full. Your days are jam-packed and busy. You have friends, work colleagues, family, maybe even a partner or spouse.

You are not alone.

Ron Frederick has come through a life where, like many of us, he had to find a way past his past. He had to learn, after leaving home, how to become who he needed to be to live the life he wanted and from the sound of it, he didn’t just wake up one morning and think, ‘Oh, that’s the path i need to take.’

That’s a good thing because helping people overcome their emotional issues is a road full of potholes, and Ron Frederick does a pretty good job of hole-filling for the reader.

Living Like You Mean (LLYMI) is a how to book with an easy-to-read style. One thing I found particularly helpful and interesting is that Frederick gives examples from his practice for the points he makes. He takes us on a journey along how to recognise where we are at in terms of handling our emotions, how he views the battlefield in which we play our personal war and what we can do about it.

There is no magic cure here. He doesn’t offer an instant fix, but he makes it clear we have to work at it. We need to deal with years of accumulated habit patterns and before we can do that, we have to recognise the patterns so we can adjust them.

And before that, we need to learn to see the emotions so we can label them. He gives steps we can take in all these areas.

In reading I found myself a bit impatient – the book seemed to be ‘talking about’ rather than addressing (to me) the waited for questions of what I could do about my issues with emotions.

*grins* Then I realised I was only on about page 80 and he actually HAD already covered a couple of important areas, including becoming aware of your feelings and of your defences.

I recently started using EFT (Emotional freedom Technique) as part of a program to try to deal with the fact that I am detached from emotion. Although others have had very good results, I found mine a little underwhelming. I see the processes LLYMI as enabling me in a more basic way than EFT, bringing me actions I can take to come out from behind the curtain that is between me and my feelings.

Then EFT should start to work more effectively, because currently i have problems identifying just what the feeling is I am trying to use tapping for.

I have just started my journey into my emotions – I hope to find my way across uncharted territory using the guide book that Ronald J Frederick, Ph. D. Has provided.

I recommend this book.
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If you would like to win a copy of this book, leave a comment below telling me what emotion(s) you have trouble with in your life. The winner will be announced July 2nd.
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