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Discover a language of comfort that cultivates hope and resuscitates the sprit.

It’s painful to feel you’re a disappointment. Today’s social spotlights are glaring, and if you’re not making it socially, emotionally, or academically, everybody knows. Recent discoveries in neuroscience, ancient wisdoms, and quality therapy, have proven things can and will get better. For many of us, our internal makeup has been subjugated to the opinions of significant others, who have rejected, shamed, or medicated our “emotional self” into compliance. Accelerated by life, and the pandemic, anxiety, depression, and uncertainty, is at an all time high. Hand held technology literally foments distraction. But whether or not you’ve been “diagnosed” with a social, emotional, academic, or vocational issue, we’ve all experienced ADD or ADHD moments. How we feel about ourselves privately will be our road map through life. This book will teach you how to draw your own map. My findings, ideas and observations come from thirty-five years of private practice, my never-ending quest to understand myself and others, quality therapy that I received, and my personal struggles with ADHD and the world. What hurts us the most, will instruct us the most, if we’re willing to do the emotional renovation necessary to Make Now Better So Later Will Be Easier. We will get better and the truth of who we are is found at the intersection of many different perspectives. We can learn to build deliberate and lasting internal resources: confidence, courage, and self-compassion. None of us were born with crippling anxiety, deep despair, and mega doses of shame. All this has been learned, and the good news is, it can be unlearned. The goal in therapy is not “complete bliss” which has a short shelf life. But rather a deep and enduring okay-ness which allows us to navigate life’s inevitable frustrations, and conundrums, despite some of our unsolved problems. Let’s make it fun.