Finding the Spirit Within: A Self-Guided Mental Health Activity Workbook

By Erica McKenzie, Karen Tremblay Kilbride and Randy Hamelin

Take a journey of self-discovery with this activity-filled workbook that will help you set goals, overcome challenges, and enhance your self esteem.

Randy Hamelin, a professional counselor and psychotherapist, teams up with Erica McKenzie to deliver strategies that enable you to improve verbal and nonverbal communication skills, relieve stress, and stay motivated even during the most difficult of times.

The authors provide a roadmap of setting goals the SMART way by making sure they areSpecific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time oriented. By including action steps to achieve goals in your daily planner and taking other simple steps, youll make achieving goals that much easier.

Youll also learn how to recognize your fears, grasp insights from your unconscious mind, and work through negative thoughts that can cause distress and keep you from achieving important tasks.

Filled with bulleted lists, thought-provoking questions, real-life examples, and a variety of work tools, Finding the Spirit Within allows you to start living life to the fullest.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Nov 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491779316

Erica McKenzie

Randy Hamelin is an entrepreneur and a college professor of business, communications, English, and psychology. He earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology and is a practicing registered professional counselor and psychotherapist. He is an avid equestrian and lives in Southern Ontario, Canada. Erica McKenzie is a certified child and youth counselor and professional life coach working privately and out of Country Sunset Stables near Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She has a master’s degree in education and is certified with Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA).

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Finding the Spirit Within

A Self-Guided Mental Health Activity Workbook

Randy Hamelin and Erica McKenzie

-Illustrations

Karen Tremblay Kilbride

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FINDING THE SPIRIT WITHIN

A SELF-GUIDED MENTAL HEALTH ACTIVITY WORKBOOK

Copyright © 2015 Randy Hamelin.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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The authors grant permission for mental-health professionals to reproduce pages for the use of their clients.

This manuscript is not a replacement for a mental-health professional, and its intent is not to engage in rendering professional services. Readers should consult with a mental-health professional where appropriate.

For additional information about all products and services, please visit the author’s website at www.randyhamelin.com.

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ISBN: 978-1-4917-7929-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4917-7931-6 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 11/06/2015

Contents

Introduction

Facing Your Fears

Moving toward Independence

Setting Goals

Go for the Goal

It’s Time to Set Some Goals!

Setting SMART Goals

Life’s Little Obstacles

Five Factors That Can Increase Vulnerability

Changes

All Good Things

Focus on the Positive and Eliminate the Negative

On the Bright Side of Positivity

Face Your Fears

Increasing Positive Self-Talk

I Am Amazing!

Making Connections

Communicating with I Statements in Four Easy Steps

Now It Is Your Turn to Try

Want to Be Heard? Learn to Listen

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