Synopses & Reviews
Seeking treatment for substance abuse or addiction is half the battle—staying sober is the other. In this important book, physician Stanley Block and addiction specialist Guy du Plessis present a powerful, easy-to-use program for overcoming addiction utilizing the mind-body bridging modality.
If you're recovering from substance abuse, you know that every day is a new battle. In fact, staying sober is one of the hardest aspects of addiction recovery, and many people end up relapsing. If you’ve tried traditional treatment but are still struggling to stay on the path to sobriety, you may be ready for a new approach.
In Mind-Body Workbook for Addiction, Stanley Block, MD, Carolyn Bryant Block, and founder of the popular Integrated Recovery Program (IRP), Guy du Plessis present an innovative and clinically proven mind-body bridging technique to help you stay sober, manage emotions and stress, and ultimately build a better life. Inside, you’ll find easy-to-use self-help exercises to help you uncover addiction triggers, stay grounded, and prevent future relapse so you can finally heal.
Mind-body bridging is a proven-effective method of self-help that teaches you how to regulate strong emotions such as anxiety, anger, worry, and stress—all emotions that lie at the core of addiction issues. You'll learn how to become aware of your negative thoughts, experience them without pushing them away, and then use your physical senses to become more grounded and relaxed, rather than turning to alcohol or drugs for relief.
If you're ready to finally gain control of your addiction and stay sober, this book has the potential to change your life.
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While on active duty at the Bamberg US Army Base in Germany, I saw hundreds of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with combat and operational stress reaction (COSR). In my professional opinion, the mind-body bridging technique featured in Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD is the single most effective method for the treatment PTSD and COSR.
—Major Philip Davis, Ph.D., US Army Reserve
Without the mind-body bridging tools in Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD, I would be dead. Not only has it saved my life, but made it better than it was before I was deployed.
—Sergeant First Class Kip Day, Utah National Guard and combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Drawing upon recent advances in the field of trauma recovery, the authors have created a unique holistic approach to helping trauma survivors. Their step-by-step method of helping readers better understand and cope with the all-important mind-body connection and its relationship to the low self-esteem, anxiety, anger, sleeping difficulties, and other common emotional, physical, social, and mental aftereffects of trauma, is truly brilliant.
—Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D., author of I Can't Get Over It, Trust After Trauma, and eight other books on trauma
This scientifically sound and comprehensive Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD has broken new ground by offering highly effective strategies for mental health treatment. In my twenty years of clinical experience working with complex PTSD and other mental disorders, I have found mind-body bridging, the method taught in this self-help book, to be the most tolerated and effective treatment approach among other evidence-based models, including cognitive processing therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, prolonged exposure, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Results have been impressive compared to the evidence-based treatments used in my practice. This workbook is compelling and instructive in its ability to help clients develop sufficient resources for sustainable self-healing and empowerment. I have been using mind-body bridging for the past three years in individual and group treatments. I have treated over 100 clients using mind-body bridging and have had no clients terminate treatment.
—Lois Waldron, LCSW, Springfield, MA
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"While on active duty at the Bamberg US Army Base in Germany, I saw hundreds of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with combat and operational stress reaction (COSR). In my professional opinion, the mind-body bridging technique featured in Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD is the single most effective method for the treatment PTSD and COSR."
—Major Philip Davis, PhD, US Army Reserve
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"Without the mind-body bridging tools in Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD, I would be dead. Not only has it saved my life, but made it better than it was before I was deployed."
—Sergeant First Class Kip Day, Utah National Guard and combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom
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"Drawing upon recent advances in the field of trauma recovery, the authors have created a unique holistic approach to helping trauma survivors. Their step-by-step method of helping readers better understand and cope with the all-important mind-body connection and its relationship to the low self-esteem, anxiety, anger, sleeping difficulties, and other common emotional, physical, social, and mental aftereffects of trauma, is truly brilliant."
—Aphrodite Matsakis, PhD, author of I Can’t Get Over It, Trust After Trauma, and eight other books on trauma
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"This scientifically sound and comprehensive Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD has broken new ground by offering highly effective strategies for mental health treatment. In my twenty years of clinical experience working with complex PTSD and other mental disorders, I have found mind-body bridging, the method taught in this self-help book, to be the most tolerated and effective treatment approach among other evidence-based models, including cognitive processing therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, prolonged exposure, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Results have been impressive compared to the evidence-based treatments used in my practice. This workbook is compelling and instructive in its ability to help clients develop sufficient resources for sustainable self-healing and empowerment. I have been using mind-body bridging for the past three years in individual and group treatments. I have treated over 100 clients using mind-body bridging and have had no clients terminate treatment."
—Lois Waldron, LCSW, Springfield, MA
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Mind-Body Workbook for Anxiety is an incredibly effective resource for managing anxiety and stress. I use this program in my clinical practice as well as my personal life, and have seen people radically reduce their anxiety in as little as one session. I recently worked with a client who is a survivor of several rapes. Almost daily, she experienced high levels of anxiety and overwhelming thoughts, and found herself shutting down in certain situations. After using the skills of mind-body bridging (MBB) for only one week, she stated, This has changed my life! Where was this three years ago when I really needed it? I have finally found something that works! I have seen life-changing transformations in many clients and know this program works. Choosing to integrate MBB into your everyday practices can relieve your anxiety and change your life forever.”
Rachel Jenkins-Lloyd, MSN, therapist and forensic nurse at Salt Lake Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners and assistant professor at Roseman University
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This
Mind-Body Workbook for Anxiety reduces anxiety and stress within days by empowering the reader to self-heal. The mind-body mapping exercises in the book let the reader personally experience the shift from a faulty brain network to his or her natural healing executive functioning. I have witnessed the dramatic impact of using the easy-to-apply tools in this workbook personally and in my work with patients suffering from anxiety and depression. As Block says, Self-healing is your birthright.”
Peter D. Farr, MD, medical director of addiction medicine, Dearborn County Hospital, Lawrenceburg, Indiana and member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine
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"Mind-body bridging is brilliant in its simplicity and profound in its results. By far the most effective and easiest tool I have used both personally and professionally to achieve life-changing results. The symptoms of anxiety rapidly fade as we use our innate powers to overcome the self-defeating mind-body tug of war present in all of us. By learning and applying the simple techniques in this workbook, healing occurs spontaneously and powerfully.”
Maxann Shwartz, PhD, founder of Clinical, Forensic, and Neuropsychology Associates of New Mexico
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Using the mind-body bridging (MBB) tools described in the
Mind-Body Workbook for Anxiety has had a very profound impact on my personal and professional life. I use these tools regularly with my patients and there is not only a rapid relief of symptoms, but a remarkably deep transformation that empowers their lives. I strongly recommend this book to all doctors and their patients.”
Heli Jussila-Martineau, MD, Helsinki, Finland
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This mind-body workbook for anger sets the standard for the treatment the entire spectrum of anger management issues, including court mandated treatment for domestic violence offenders. Mind-body bridging is a set of powerful techniques that will help one to rest the system in ones brain (the I-System) that is responsible for unmanaged anger. I have been in practice twenty years and have found that the tools in this workbook are far superior, better accepted, and more quickly effective than any that I have used with court-ordered domestic violence offenders. Long-term follow-up of recidivism showed rates of only eight percent. Further, I have used and continue to use mind-body bridging in my own life with transformational results.”
Kevin Webb, MSW, LCSW, clinical consultant and therapist, Utah Division of Child and Family Services
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Stan and Carolyn have done it again.
Mind-Body Workbook for Anger is a user-friendly, easy-to-apply solution to the problem of anger management. In my long career in treating domestic violence offenders, no other method or technique can compare with it. This book should be on top of the list for both therapists and clients.”
Jules Shuzen Harris, EdD, author of Anger: It Has Something to Teach Us: Can We Listen
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As a psychotherapist, I have been actively involved with domestic violence coalitions and treatment agencies. Anger-management treatment programs based on this
Mind-Body Workbook for Anger dramatically reduce dropout rates and recidivism in comparison with conventional treatment methods. In fact, with the favorable results of a large randomized control trial awaiting publication, mind-body bridging is en route to becoming the first evidenced-based treatment and best practice for domestic violence offenders.”
Isaac Phillips, MSW, LCSW, executive director of Equinox Counseling Services; co-chair of the Salt Lake Area Domestic Violence Coalition; and member of the Utah Council for Domestic Violence Perpetrator Treatment
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Research I conducted with domestic violence offenders using mind-body bridging as an intervention found the offenders experienced less stress; gained greater access to problem-solving abilities; and improved their relationships with partners, children, and co-workers. The mind-body bridging approach helped these at-risk individuals avoid reoffending largely by sharpening ability to recognize internal triggers. In my experience, the mind-body bridging techniques used in the
Mind-Body Workbook for Anger are successful because they are practical, straightforward, and allow individuals to see results immediately.”
Elisa Audo, PhD, author The Experience of Mind-Body Bridging as a Treatment for Offenders of Domestic Violence, doctoral dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2012, San Francisco, CA
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Dr. Stanley H. Block helps people see their mind as never before by helping them recognize their identity system and then guiding them through simple mapping exercises to teach them how to bridge, which rests their I-System so that they can unblock their potential to deal with their career, health, or anything.”
Shirley MacLaine, actress and author of Out on a Leash and The Camino
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Transform your life in a matter of ten days. I did.”
Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom
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Mind-body bridging is a new body-mind language that allows people to reconnect with their ability to function effectively. Since I have directly witnessed the power and efficacy of Stans work, I am very ready to state that the approach of mapping and bridging can be an adjunct to spiritual practice or it can stand on its own.”
Charlotte Joko Beck, bestselling author of Everyday Zen
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Dr. Blocks bridging methods have given me new ways to help pitchers deal with adversity and compete in the major leagues.”
Rafael Chaves of the New York Yankee Organization, former pitching coach for Seattle Mariners
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This mind-body medicine-based workbook guides readers back to their inner reservoir of self-empowerment by showing them how to override a learned stress response and faulty brain network and regain access to their natural executive functioning. The mind-body mapping exercises outlined within teach readers how to reduce stress and develop a set of personalized, powerful, crisis-management tools. Moreover, since these exercises are quick and easy to do, theyll become a welcome staple of your lifelong health regimen. But dont be fooled by their simplicity. Ive witnessed their powerful impact personally and in my work with cancer patients and their caregivers.”
Michelle Rodoletz, PhD, assistant professor in the department of psychiatry, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, and director of the Continuing Education Program for HealthForumOnline (www.healthforumonline.com)
Synopsis
The Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD is a ten-week program for healing from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that is based in mind-body bridging, a therapeutic method that includes techniques from mindfulness and mind-body medicine.
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It may not seem possible at first, but you can make a full recovery after trauma
Many traumatic experiences naturally heal with time and become part of your past, like old scars. But when you have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumas flare up in your life again and again, causing stress and making it difficult to focus on the here and now. Months and even years may pass, but the memories don't fade and let you move on.
A clinically proven therapeutic method called mind-body bridging can help you to finally heal and recover from these difficult experiences. Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD is a straightforward, self-guided mind-body bridging program that you can complete in ten weeks. You'll use your body to settle your mind, develop the skills you need to recover from PTSD, and start to feel connected, confident, and in charge of your life.
- Stop feeling detached and numb and start feeling alive again
- Notice the tension in your body and experience it melting away
- Reduce flashbacks, nightmares, insomnia, and restlessness
- Keep track of your progress as you move toward making a full recovery
Synopsis
Stanley Block, MD, and Carolyn Bryant Block present their fourth workbook utilizing the innovative and proven-effective mind-body bridging technique. The easy-to-use self-help exercises in Mind-Body Workbook for Anxiety will teach readers how to stop identifying with anxious thoughts and feelings while allowing their bodies to relax and let go of unconscious tension.
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If you suffer from anxiety, panic, and worry, you are by no means alone. In fact, anxiety is the most common mental health issue in the United States. But if youve tried traditional treatment without success, you may be ready for a new approach. In Mind-Body Workbook for Anxiety, Stanley Block, MD, and Carolyn Bryant Block present their fourth workbook utilizing the innovative and proven-effective mind-body bridging technique. Inside, youll find easy-to-use self-help exercises that will help you to stop identifying with anxious thoughts and feelings while allowing your body to relax and let go of unconscious tension. Mind-body bridging is a proven-effective method of self-help that teaches you how to regulate strong emotions such as anxiety, anger, worry, and more. You will learn how to become aware of your anxious thoughts, experience them without pushing them away, and then use your physical senses to become more grounded and relaxed. By experiencing this simple mind-body shift, you will gain an immediate sense of relief with long-lasting results.
If you are ready to finally gain control over your anxiety symptoms, this book has the potential to change your life. For more information about Stanley and Carolyn Bryant Block and the innovating technique of mind-body bridging, visit bridgingforlife.com.
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Physician Stanley Block and Carolyn Bryant Block present Mind-Body Workbook for Anger, their third workbook utilizing the mind-body bridging modality. Proven-effective in both clinical and research settings, the easy-to-use self-help exercises in this book teach readers how to stop identifying with angry thoughts and feelings, while allowing their bodies to relax and let go of unconscious tension. In this natural resting state, body and mind are both able to naturally heal and let go of habitual anger issues.
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Do you have trouble controlling your anger? Have you lost friends, loved ones, or even found yourself in trouble with the law because you regularly lose your temper? If you have tried regular anger management therapy but havent been able to make any real, lasting changes in how you deal with your emotions, you should know that there are other treatment options available that can help.
With the Mind-Body Workbook for Anger, physician Stanley Block and Carolyn Bryant Block present their third workbook utilizing the innovative and successful mind-body bridging therapy. Proven-effective in both clinical and research settings, the easy-to-use self-help exercises in this book will teach you to stop identifying with angry thoughts and feelings, while allowing your body to relax and let go of unconscious tension. In this natural resting state, body and mind are both able to naturally heal and let go of habitual anger issues.
If you are looking for something new, beyond typical anger management classes, to help get your emotions under control, this book will give you the skills you need to make lasting change. To find out more about mind-body bridging, visit bridgingforlife.com
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Mind-Body Workbook for Stress presents a complete, evidence-based treatment program for reducing stress significantly in one to three weeks by overcoming negative thinking, improving self-esteem and confidence, and optimizing mindfulness and self-care practices.
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Chronic stress is a huge problem that has only gotten worse in recent years. The good news is that new research is emerging to help treat stress in more effective ways than ever before. Mind-body bridging is one of these new modalities. Shown to be effective in both clinical and research settings, the easy-to-use mind-body bridging system helps readers dramatically reduce their stress in one to three weeks. Mind-Body Workbook for Stress helps readers learn and practice exercises for detaching from painful thoughts and feelings and helping their bodies relax and let go of unconscious tension. In this resting state, body and mind can let go of stress and heal naturally. Readers also learn fast-acting mindfulness skills for dissolving stress whenever desired without needing to maintain a long-term meditative practice. The one-page assessments, worksheets, and activities in this book make it easy for anyone to develop their capacity to withstand and relax under stress.
Synopsis
Seeking treatment for substance abuse or addiction is half the battle—staying sober is the other. In this important book, physician Stanley Block and addiction specialist Guy du Plessis present a powerful program for overcoming addiction utilizing the mind-body bridging modality. Proven effective in both clinical and research settings, these easy-to-use self-help exercises teach readers how to uncover addiction triggers, stay grounded, and prevent future relapse.
About the Author
Stanley H. Block, MD, is adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a consultant on the medical staff at U.S. Army and Veterans Administration Hospitals. He lectures and consults with treatment centers worldwide and is coauthor of Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD and Come to Your Senses. He and his wife, Carolyn Bryant Block, live in Copalis Beach, WA. Find out more about his work online at sleepstar.co and mindbodybridging.com.
Carolyn Bryant Block is coauthor of Bridging the I-System, Come to Your Senses, and Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD. She is also the co-developer of mind-body bridging and identity system (I-System) theory and techniques.
Andrea A. Peters is an educator certified in mind-body bridging. She guided the organizational development of mind-body bridging material.
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