Many of us are so caught up in the minutia of stressful living that we don't bother to take charge of our inner well-being. As a result, we suffer. With fear and hatred invading our daily lives in many dimensions, it's more important now than ever to create healing, empowering, spiritual alliances. Dr. Ellie Izzo shows us how.

A celebrated psychotherapist for more than thirty years, Dr. Izzo shares her powerful approach for moving through fear, judgment, and divisive thinking. She takes the reader past anxiousness and loneliness, to a life brimming with vibrant relationships, creativity, courage, and contentment.

Based on recent findings in neuroscience and diverse spiritual teachings, Dr. Izzo's dynamic "Rapid Advance Psychotherapy" is an enlightening, practical five-step wellness model for tapping into the radiant Spiritual Self, the Higher Mind, the I Am. It includes: Revealing the history Recognizing the impasse Releasing the past Responding to fear Reconnecting to the spirit By building a "Spiritual Bridge" connecting what we know in our heads to be true with what we believe in our hearts, we can live healthy, loving lives detached from the painful past, unperturbed about tomorrow, and peacefully centered in the present.

Helping professionals can experience burnout and compassion fatigue as a result of their work, but what about those suffering debilitating problems like depression, anxiety, addiction, obesity, or immune disorders? The cause could be vicarious trauma-a phenomenon that goes far beyond compassion fatigue or burnout. Every time you interact with those you help, you are putting yourself at risk for vicarious trauma. Absorbing others' trauma while controlling your own empathic response alters your neurochemistry and even the structure of your brain, negatively affecting your mind, body, and spirit. Second-Hand Shock presents the Rapid Advance Process, a method of recovery created by the authors and used successfully with their own clients. The book includes The Aftershock Workbook, your step-by-step guide through the Rapid Advance Process. This second edition offers new information about how vicarious trauma can be worsened when helping professionals deny or minimize their personal trauma history-or overestimate their effectiveness in coping with it. The authors also explore the ways that emotional intelligence can protect you from vicarious trauma. Second-Hand Shock offers acknowledgment, hope, and healing to millions of helping professionals. There is no need to suffer in silence. You can recognize, address, and recover from vicarious trauma.

A guide to get binging and overeating under control by understanding why you overeat. This book goes beyond the 'why' by developing new healthy habits. Using stories from people who've conquered overeating and questions designed to guide you through your 'why', Dr. Izzo and Vicki Carpel Miller help you drop the pounds, get healthy and get your life back.

This book is a guide to help you understand your role in picking the right person in order to have a good relationship. Bad relationships and lonely nights can be a thing of the past. Vicki and Ellie teach you through the Rapid Advance Process to use your thoughts to break the old and develop new paths to happy relationships.

Many of us are so caught up in the minutia of stressful living that we don't bother to take charge of our inner well-being. As a result, we suffer. With fear and hatred invading our daily lives in many dimensions, it's more important now than ever to create healing, empowering, spiritual alliances. Dr. Ellie Izzo shows us how.

A celebrated psychotherapist for more than thirty years, Dr. Izzo shares her powerful approach for moving through fear, judgment, and divisive thinking. She takes the reader past anxiousness and loneliness, to a life brimming with vibrant relationships, creativity, courage, and contentment.

Based on recent findings in neuroscience and diverse spiritual teachings, Dr. Izzo's dynamic "Rapid Advance Psychotherapy" is an enlightening, practical five-step wellness model for tapping into the radiant Spiritual Self, the Higher Mind, the I Am. It includes: Revealing the history Recognizing the impasse Releasing the past Responding to fear Reconnecting to the spirit By building a "Spiritual Bridge" connecting what we know in our heads to be true with what we believe in our hearts, we can live healthy, loving lives detached from the painful past, unperturbed about tomorrow, and peacefully centered in the present.

Bad habits steal your energy, your time and peace of mind. How much time do you spend thinking about how to stop doing that, but never truly stop? Vicki and Ellie's "Just Stop Doing That" helps you examine the underlying reasons for your bad habit in Part 1, then you immediately work through the Rapid Advance Process in Part 2.