Emotional Fitness: Facing Yourself, Facing the World - Softcover

Morton, Cynthia

9781876451585: Emotional Fitness: Facing Yourself, Facing the World

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1876451580 ISBN 13: 9781876451585

Publisher: Finch Publishing, 2004

Emotional Fitness offers a program of 30 proven "emotional workouts" to help people achieve balance, resilience, and self-acceptance. According to Cynthia Morton, to be emotionally fit means "to be unafraid of being yourself—warts and all." She believes that the hardest work we ever do in our lifetime is to build a loving and caring relationship with ourselves: ". . . to be able to experience any emotion without needing to control it, suppress it, chemically enhance it or blame someone else for it." Her programs with clients help them learn how to care for themselves and handle life’s challenges. This book is based on experiential work and offers workouts that are structured at different levels. These assist individuals to overcome sensitive and difficult issues in their lives and to reach self-acceptance. Emotional Fitness also tells Cynthia’s own life story, from the abuse she suffered as a child to the persistent patterns of self-abuse she developed as she grew up. Cynthia’s honesty about herself in dealing with the consequences of her background and her later behavior represents the kind of emotional fitness she is advocating, and is a powerful testimony to its effectiveness.

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About the Author:

Cynthia Morton is a support worker, consultant, and the author of A Helping Hand with Life. Her work has been profiled in the television documentary, "Brilliant Lives," and her programs have been made into an award-winning documentary. In 2003 she was recognized as Volunteer of the Year in Queensland for her work in establishing the Peer Support Program for individuals facing addiction and abuse issues. In 2004 she was presented with an Award of Distinction for Services to Humanity by the Australian Medical Association. She has now established the Emotional Fitness Foundation, to operate as a national charity supporting research into the link between addictions and childhood abuse, and how this impacts on our society. Cynthia is a contributor to Transformations: Turning tragedy into Triumph.

Review:

"Cynthia Morton's Emotional Fitness program is unrivalled in its understanding of how abuse and substance dependence impact on a person's inner self and in helping people to break out of self-destructive patterns of thought and reactions. Read this book. Gain from it. Learn how to support yourself and others. And be renewed." —John B. Saunders, MD, FRACP, Professor of Alcohol and Drug Studies, University of Queensland

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