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Life Skills
Improve the Quality of Your Life with Applied Metapsychology, Second Edition
This book is exactly as its title says, it’s full of life skills, skills that can be known, understood, used and developed. Skills that if widely known and used, would make this Earth a much better place to live in. It’s fresh and easy to read and understand. It’s full of personal examples and challenges that you can undertake or just leave be and continue reading, but above all, it’s fun to read.
I have known Marian for several years and her gift of clarity of explaining difficult concepts in very easy and understandable ways is just striking to me. That’s what makes the book so readable. (Not only) if you’re new to the concept of metapsychology, Applied Metapsychology, and person-centeredness, this is the first book of many that I humbly recommend you to read in order to get acquainted with it. While reading it, I know you’ll have fun and lots of epiphanies. I believe it can broaden your horizons to such an extent that your life will become better and easier to some extent, especially if read, thought through, and applied in your daily routine. Because that’s what always happens when we understand something from our lives a bit better, whether it be trauma, emotions, relationships, why people act as they act, or what can we do to have a bigger impact in our own lives and those of others.
A friend of mine tends to say when she teaches crisis intervention, “I will teach it to you as a machine manual is written in order that you can use it step by step and it’s easy for you.” This book is exactly that; it’s a manual to life. A manual that many complain they weren’t born with. Well now you hold it in your hands.
~ Branislav Chrenka, MD
Former National Crisis Intervention Team Director, Slovakia
Post-Traumatic Crisis Intervention Specialist
Certified TIR and Life Stress Reduction Facilitator
Certified Traumatic Incident Reduction Trainer
Life Skills by Marian Volkman is a must have in every personal development growth library. Each page of this delightful read is filled with techniques, awareness exercises and insightfully valuable life improvement reflections that can be done independently, with a friend or group and as often as you wish.
If you’re looking for a greater understanding of yourself and others, you will surely find the tools within these pages to assist you to look inward.
I have gifted this dynamite book to many clients in my private practice and it warms my heart when they report back having helped themselves with something they’ve found inLife Skills. It’s a toolbox in a book!
Life Skills is a gift that when opened and utilized can be the gift that never stops giving.
~ Amie Dekold Elias, Doors To Healing
Certified Traumatic Incident Reduction Facilitator and Trainer
Life Skills is an incredible resource of easy-to-follow techniques to enhance the reader’s ability to improve the domains of their life in a person-centered way. Based on the concepts of Applied Metapsychology, the tools and strategies guide the reader through the steps to make real change within their life. The exercises enable one to be present, achieve more awareness of oneself, and improve the domains of life, enabling achievement of higher potential. I found the exercises for moving up on the emotional scale particularly enjoyable; these enable the reader to bring about positive changes within themselves and their relationships. The awareness enhancers and remedies are the cherry on top, outlining adaptable stra