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WINNER - 2023 Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award (Silver Medalist) Metapsychology, as developed by Frank A. Gerbode, MD, is a subject rich in philosophy and practical application. Applied Metapsychology is the practical application of this subject to fulfill personal goals, from relieving past pain to living more fully to expanding consciousness. Life Skills expands on this and the reader will: Learn handy brief remedies to assist another person after a shock, injury or other distress Learn simple methods for expanding your awareness on a daily basis Gain a deeper understanding of relationships and how to strengthen and nurture any relationship Learn the components of successful communication, what causes communication to break down, and how to repair breakdowns Gain vital keys to understanding those behaviors of other people that have previously been inexplicable to you Learn an effective tool for making important life decisions Explore human potential ""Marian Volkman's Life Skills is a serious, impressive, and thoughtful work with one objective in mind: teaching how to reach one's full potential in practical, pragmatic, easy-to-follow steps that will literally change one's life. This masterpiece of a survival guide will benefit all who turn its pages. The chapter on the importance of relationships is worth the price of the book alone, as most problems in life are relationship-oriented."" --James W. Clifton, M.S., Ph.D., LCSW ""If you liked the first edition of Life Skills, you will be delighted to know that in this edition, we find even more exercises to achieve the goals of each chapters, more context and explanations in each section to reach even deeper reflections and realizations."" --Gina Michaud, B. Ed., OCT, Certified Traumatic Incident Reduction Facilitator Learn more at www.MarianVolkman.com From Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com

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This book is exactly as its title says, it's full of life skills, skills that can be known, understood, used and developed. Skills that if widely known and used, would make this Earth a much better place to live in. It's fresh and easy to read and understand. It's full of personal examples and challenges that you can undertake or just leave be and continue reading, but above all, it's fun to read. -- Branislav Chrenka, MD, Former National Crisis Intervention Team Director, Slovakia, Post-Traumatic Crisis Intervention Specialist Life Skills by Marian Volkman is a must-have in every personal development growth library. Each page of this delightful read is filled with techniques, awareness exercises and insightfully valuable life improvement reflections that can be done independently, with a friend or group and as often as you wish. If you're looking for a greater understanding of yourself and others, you will surely find the tools within these pages to assist you to look inward. I have gifted this dynamite book to many clients in my private practice and it warms my heart when they report back having helped themselves with something they've found in Life Skills. It's a toolbox in a book! Life Skills is a gift that when opened and utilized can be the gift that never stops giving. -- Amie Dekold Elias, Doors To Healing, Certified Traumatic Incident Reduction Facilitator and Trainer Life Skills is an incredible resource of easy-to-follow techniques to enhance the reader's ability to improve the domains of their life in a person-centered way. Based on the concepts of Applied Metapsychology, the tools and strategies guide the reader through the steps to make real change within their life. The exercises enable one to be present, achieve more awareness of oneself, and improve the domains of life, enabling the achievement of higher potential. I found the exercises for moving up on the emotional scale particularly enjoyable; these enable the reader to bring about positive changes within themselves and their relationships. The awareness enhancers and remedies are the cherry on top, outlining adaptable strategies for everyday upsets and stressors. -- Cami Tiska Caton, LCSW, Certified Senior Traumatic Incident Reduction Trainer, State Assessment Director, Chrysalis Health Life Skills doesn't try and change you, but encourages you to just first observe your life (and provides helpful hints on how to do that) and pay attention to what is working. The book is sprinkled with humor throughout to ease the reading along. Best of all, there is no wrong way to do the exercises in the book. All exercises are meant to help increase your own awareness about particular areas of your life. I found I got as much out of thinking about the exercises as I did writing them out. This really is a book that anyone, regardless of their current situation in life, can benefit from. -- Cherie Burbach for Reader Views Life Skills by Marian Volkman is not to be read once and then put away. It is a guide to living a full, satisfactory life, a philosophy, a challenge. If you take the trouble to do the exercises the way the author suggests, they will change your life. When I edit a book, I look at words, sentences, and the way ideas are expressed and related to each other. With this book, I continually found myself thinking about the meanings the author discussed, relating them to my own experience, applying them to my own life. I think this shows the book's power. As a psychotherapist, I know that my work will have been improved through my reading of Life Skills. -- Bob Rich, M.Sc., Ph.D., author of From Depression to Contentment

"""This book is exactly as its title says, it's full of life skills, skills that can be known, understood, used and developed. Skills that if widely known and used, would make this Earth a much better place to live in. It's fresh and easy to read and understand. It's full of personal examples and challenges that you can undertake or just leave be and continue reading, but above all, it's fun to read."" -- Branislav Chrenka, MD, Former National Crisis Intervention Team Director, Slovakia, Post-Traumatic Crisis Intervention Specialist ""Life Skills by Marian Volkman is a must-have in every personal development growth library. Each page of this delightful read is filled with techniques, awareness exercises and insightfully valuable life improvement reflections that can be done independently, with a friend or group and as often as you wish. If you're looking for a greater understanding of yourself and others, you will surely find the tools within these pages to assist you to look inward. I have gifted this dynamite book to many clients in my private practice and it warms my heart when they report back having helped themselves with something they've found in Life Skills. It's a toolbox in a book! Life Skills is a gift that when opened and utilized can be the gift that never stops giving."" -- Amie Dekold Elias, Doors To Healing, Certified Traumatic Incident Reduction Facilitator and Trainer ""Life Skills is an incredible resource of easy-to-follow techniques to enhance the reader's ability to improve the domains of their life in a person-centered way. Based on the concepts of Applied Metapsychology, the tools and strategies guide the reader through the steps to make real change within their life. The exercises enable one to be present, achieve more awareness of oneself, and improve the domains of life, enabling the achievement of higher potential. I found the exercises for moving up on the emotional scale particularly enjoyable; these enable the reader to bring about positive changes within themselves and their relationships. The awareness enhancers and remedies are the cherry on top, outlining adaptable strategies for everyday upsets and stressors."" -- Cami Tiska Caton, LCSW, Certified Senior Traumatic Incident Reduction Trainer, State Assessment Director, Chrysalis Health ""Life Skills doesn't try and change you, but encourages you to just first observe your life (and provides helpful hints on how to do that) and pay attention to what is working. The book is sprinkled with humor throughout to ease the reading along. Best of all, there is no wrong way to do the exercises in the book. All exercises are meant to help increase your own awareness about particular areas of your life. I found I got as much out of thinking about the exercises as I did writing them out. This really is a book that anyone, regardless of their current situation in life, can benefit from."" -- Cherie Burbach for Reader Views ""Life Skills by Marian Volkman is not to be read once and then put away. It is a guide to living a full, satisfactory life, a philosophy, a challenge. If you take the trouble to do the exercises the way the author suggests, they will change your life. When I edit a book, I look at words, sentences, and the way ideas are expressed and related to each other. With this book, I continually found myself thinking about the meanings the author discussed, relating them to my own experience, applying them to my own life. I think this shows the book's power. As a psychotherapist, I know that my work will have been improved through my reading of Life Skills."" -- Bob Rich, M.Sc., Ph.D., author of From Depression to Contentment"

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Always motivated by the desire to learn, grow and assist other people on their journeys as best I could, I was very fortunate to meet Dr. Frank A. (""Sarge"") Gerbode through mutual friends in the early 1980s. When I found out what he was working on, the development of metapsychology (what we might call the philosophy of human existence) and Applied Metapsychology, the practical application thereof, I was delighted. Finally, I had found where I belonged.Applied Metapsychology is a rich, deep, broad subject. In addition to being fun to study in itself, the subject provides elegantly simple tools for effectively helping people. I have been making use of these tools and the person-centered paradigm that supports their effectiveness for close to 40 years at the time of this writing and I never get tired of it. Trying to help and failing leads to burnout. Having tools that work is a constant delight. Working with my clients, training new practitioners of the subject, and training trainers are my idea of the very best fun.At some point, I realized that I spend a fair bit of time with my client introducing them to basic concepts within the subject to find out if they seem useful a relevant to the person I am talking with. (They nearly always do.) Then it occurred to me that I could not reasonably expect my clients to remember all this great stuff and that was when I decided to write Life Skills. Dr. Gerbode had written the textbook ""Beyond Psychology: An Introduction to Metapsychology"" (now in its 4th Edition). I wrote this book for anyone to study these principles and try them out, at whatever pace they like.

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