Review
The tools for a confident, successful life from an expert who has been there, done it and found the T-shirt that made her happy. (Shari Low DAILY RECORD )
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Book Description
Award-winning clinical psychologist's step-by-step guide to transforming your life.
Product Description
This is an unusually wise and well-written self-help book that easily satisfies most readers' requirement of offering practical help. It is devoid of a "method", but aims to share what help psychological counselling, cognitive and behaviour therapy can offer the depressed, sad, bereaved or confused individual. Cecilia d'Felice has addressed herself to the variety of readers who may seek her out who may fall into two broad categories - those who are suffering and those who love someone who is suffering. Dare To Be You has a rare transparency and honesty. Dr d'Felice is no stranger to illness and medical indifference and misdiagnosis. She tells her own story bravely and without any self-pity, although medical neglect has nearly killed her more than once and has disabled her. Consequently, there is no false optimism in this book. Dr d'Felice has something different to offer, something like a radiant faith in the way individuals who lack a sense of self-worth can redeem themselves and eventually love themselves. Her message is that life can be seized and is meant to be seized, despite affliction, and in this way lies the salvation of the world in our basic kindness and understanding towards ourselves and all others in our lives. Her advice is practical, and within several of the eight chapters are suggestions for journal writing, mindfulness and breathing exercises. Dr d'Felice is one of the rare individuals who has a deep sense of compassion, ignited by circumstances that might have made her bitter instead. Her book has the voice of a wise and loving friend, and offers companionship in the way that the best and most favourite books do
From the Inside Flap
'In this life - the one life we have all miraculously been given - we need all the help we can get.' Award-winning psychologist Dr Cecilia d'Felice shows how cognitive behavioural and mindfulness therapy can help with life's challenges and losses. Written with a rare transparency and honesty, she combines practical advice, positive psychology and her own experiences to encourage a different way of relating to ourselves and our lives. Cecilia's deep sense of compassion offers support in the manner of a wise and loving friend and her message is unequivocal: we all have the potential to live a life we love with passion and conviction. The result is an unusually wise and proactive book that offers hope and the possibility of change, growth and development for everyone. Dr Cecilia d'Felice is a senior NHS chartered clinical psychologist. Her expertise has been regularly featured on national and international TV and radio. She wrote the 'How to be Happy' column for the Independent on Sunday and writes regularly for Psychologies magazine, winning the Mind Journalist of the Year award for her feature on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and depression. 9781409106524
About the Author
Dr Cecilia d'Felice has become a regular psychological expert on national TV and radio, including BBC Radio 4's WOMAN'S HOUR and Channel 5's THE WRIGHT STUFF. In 2007 she won the Mind Journalist of the Year Award, and also the Pearson Award for her outstanding contribution to psychology
