Recipes for Enchantment: The Secret Ingredient is You!

by Barbara Becker Holstein


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Softcover
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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 01/05/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 200
ISBN : 9781588203625

About the Book

Come meet a street child from Brazil who profoundly influenced, for the good, a sophisticated American woman. Read about Sal, a soldier almost fatally wounded but miraculously saved by love letters. Meet Joey, the little boy, who was so sick with cancer that his family was giving up, who suddenly took a turn for the better because a teacher simply did her job. Yes, be inspired by all these people you will meet in these inspirational stories that prove that positive actions really make a difference. Following each story take the opportunity to journal, dream, and think through how you can make positive changes in your life, guaranteed to result in your personal RECIPE FOR ENCHANTMENT!

RECIPES FOR ENCHANTMENT, The Secret Ingredient is You! is a culmination of over ten years of work and research in the field of personal enchantment by Dr. Holstein. She teaches us how to recall positive memories, regardless of our history, recognize our potential and bring into our lives more of what gives us pleasure and joy. This is all combined with daily positive actions. Now we are "cooking" delicious days for ourselves, living a RECIPE FOR ENCHANTMENT.

RECIPES FOR ENCHANTMENT, The Secret Ingredient is You! is a breakthrough book combining psychology/self-help with inspiration. Psychology/self-help activities are beautifully interwoven with inspirational stories. Dr. Barara Becker Holstein is well known as a "positive" psychologist. She is busy in the media and on the internet always teaching us to look for what's right about ourselves, rather than what's wrong.

Dr. Holstein is passionate about teaching us how to live lives of joy and meaning. We need only learn the most basic recipe: incorporate within our daily live positive actions, combined with our unique positive thoughts and feelings! The rest will take care of itself as if by magic!


About the Author

Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein is a nationally known leader in Positive Psychology. Her first book, THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy, challenged outdated psychological behaviors and attitudes. It taught clinicians and the public how to recognize what is right about each of us rather than what is wrong. Her emphasis on positive memory retrieval profoundly changed the focus of the treatment room. Now we can joyfully reclaim our talents and lost potential, even from a dysfunctional past.

Joy and discovering our purpose in life are essential to all of Dr. Holstein's teachings. She educates the public in ways to increase the joy in one's life. She eagerly shares her knowledge with the public via her constant radio and television appearances. Also, her newsletters go around the world both via the post and e-mail. Her website, www.enchantedself.com , is a clearing house of good news and learning opportunities. The public can go to this site to practice enchantment while reading positive stories from readers around the world.

Dr. Holstein knows that practice is essential to live a life of joy and meaning. Thus, she gives the reader the opportunity to use each story in RECIPES FOR ENCHANTMENT, The Secret Ingredient is You! as a springboard for the enticing soul searching necessary to become in touch with one's unique gifts and how best to use them, thus creating the personal "magic" of an enchanted life.

Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein is available for media interviews, teleconferences, and hands on workshops, lectures and personal coaching. She can be reached at 1-877-BJOYFUL. Her website is www.enchantedself.com and her e-mail address is encself@aol.com.

In Phoenix and Providence listen to THE ENCHANTED SELF, hosted by Dr. Holstein on AM radio, 1100 AM in Phoenix and 950 AM in Providence.