Take Control of Your Life: Self Help for Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Confidence, Success & More

by Dan Jones

This self help book is designed to be something that will be a useful part of your life not just a few hours read. I wanted to create something that covered many of life's difficulties so that over the years you always have a reference manual with ruffled edges from continued use. This book covers self help topics from depression, anxiety, PTSD, phobias, OCD and pain management, to addictions and sleep difficulties. Unlike many other books I don't want to portray that I am the cause of your positive change. My aim is to be a guide that gives you ideas to help you take control in your life for your own change work.About The AuthorDan Jones has over 20 years experience helping people with a wide range of emotional and psychological problems and pain management. Jones has been published in Human Given's (Peer Reviewed Publication) for his research within family therapy, his videos have been viewed more than 1.5 million times, his self-help and self-hypnosis audio tracks have been downloaded over 500,000 times and his he has had over 50,000 books purchased.Jones has been described in the British media as 'Remarkable', with 'Expert Insight', and 'Personal Development Guru...the UK's Leading Personal Development Coach'. He has featured in newspapers and magazines Worldwide, and appeared on TV and radio throughout the UK.Jones is one of the UK's leading coaches and therapy trainers, and has taught people from all over the World.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

124 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 16, 2009

About the author

Dan Jones (Born 1978, Chichester, West Sussex, England) is an Aspie (person with Asperger's Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism) who has over 20 years training and experience in hypnosis, meditation, and the healing arts, including Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Human Givens Approach, Solution Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. He has also worked for over 15 years with children, teens and parents. He worked in mental health in the late 1990s, before starting in children's homes in 2000, then helped to set up a therapeutic children's home, before moving into working with parents of children who were either young offenders, or committing anti-social behaviour and at risk of entering the youth justice system if they didn't turn their behaviour around. Dan then managed a team of Family Intervention Project staff, as well as continuing family work himself, and worked as part of the Troubled Families programme.

Relating to his experience with hypnotherapy and the healing arts Dan has written 'Advanced Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Scripts' and 'Hypnotherapy', both have frequently been bestsellers in hypnotherapy and hypnosis categories, and he has also written a novel 'The Hypnotic Assassin', and written the self-help book 'Take Control of Your Life', and the smoking cessation book 'Quit Smoking in 7 Day's', and has contributed to many other books, including Professor Ursula James' book 'Clinical Hypnosis Textbook'.

Relating to his parenting and family work Dan has written 'Parenting Techniques That Work' which is a 'to the point' book about what works in parenting based on his knowledge and experience having worked directly with children and teens with very challenging, often violent behaviour, and supporting many hundreds of parents to create change with their children. For professionals, he has written 'Human Given's Approach to Working With Parents of Teens With Challenging Behaviour' which shares how to support parents to make required changes to help their teens behave, and also shares efficacy research Dan carried out around helping teens to stop anti-social behaviour and youth crime by working with the parents (and not working with the teens directly at all).

Following many requests from parents and family support staff Dan also wrote his bestselling children's book 'Sleepy Bedtime Tales', which is based on an approach he developed while working in residential children's homes to help children to sleep. It is a collection of eleven stories, and guidelines on how those stories are to be read to help children sleep using various psychological techniques and principles, and the book also includes additional information about helping to get children to sleep. He has written a sequel to this book 'Relaxing Tales for Children' which uses many of the same psychological techniques and principles, but to help children relax rather than to send them to sleep.

Relating to his experiences as someone with Asperger's, and someone who has extensive experience working with those on the autistic spectrum, their families, friends, carers, and colleagues, Dan has written what he terms 'an autobiography through the lens of Asperger's' - 'Look Into My Eyes: Asperger's, Hypnosis, and Me' which aims to share what life is like as someone with Asperger's, as well as sharing information based on his professional experiences. This book has been a bestseller, reaching number one in psychology biographies, living with disabilities, developmental psychology, and many other categories, and number 30 in all biographies on Amazon UK. This book is now in its second edition following feedback from readers about what would make it more helpful. The second edition has an extra 50% of content including an extensive chapter of tips and strategies, covering tips for parents/carers, teachers, friends, employers, and those with Asperger's, and a chapter by Dan's wife about her experiences of being in a relationship with someone with Asperger'

Reviews

[Selena Govier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basic and short overview

anxiety has always been an issue for me. This book is a very simplistic talk about depression and anxiety. Some techniques to apply, but not much meat on the bones.