Last updated: 12/2008

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As a psychologist I talk with people struggling with depression everyday. I know how painful life with depression can be.
Most -- but not all -- people who are depressed have depressing lives. They experience more than their share of difficulties and problems.
Do you find this true for you?
If you only learn to self help your depression -- and do not learn how to change your life for the better -- your depression will soon return.
Thus, learning to self help depression must also involve learning how to make your life better. You need to learn how to change those aspects of your life with which you are dissatisfied.
The transformation skills can help you do this.
With the transformation skills you can self help your depression...you can also self help anxiety, addictions, problems communicating, problems handling feelings such as anger, problems in dysfunctional relationships -- the list can go on and on.
The E-Workshop can help you lose weight, manage your money better, exercise more regularly, take better care of your car, or any other change that you wish to make concerning your behavior.
Comment from a workshop participant:
This program is really interesting. What you have done is take theory and make it practical by telling me exactly what I can do to get better.

Have you ever talked to a doctor about why you are depressed? You were probably told that you had a chemical imbalance.
This is true. When you are depressed your brain chemistry is out of balance.
But this is not the whole truth. There is more to it...
Most depressed people also have a life imbalance. So to really improve you need to develop a more balanced life.
I am sure you know that a person struggling with depression finds it hard to take action to make life better. Depression zapps your energy and motivation.
Nevertheless, action is required if your depression is going to truly improve. By using the transformation skills you can take the needed action. The transformation skills program is a program of action.
Developing a more balanced life is not easy. But you can do it if you know what to do...and you take action. As you already know, doing is the hardest part.
Knowing what to do and doing it are definitely two different things.
True enough, some people don't have a problem doing what they need to do to self help depression. They are just not sure what to do.
Others know what they need to do. They just can't seem to do it. The transformation skills can help you with both problems. Transformation skills can...
help you know what to do
and can help you do it.
Tools You Can Use to Help Your Depression.
The transformation skills are the tools that you need to address the problems associated with depression.
Depression is often associated with life situations that cause dissatisfaction.
Transformation skills can be used to change situations that you are dissatisfied with into situations that you are more satisfied with.
Depression is often associated with poor self-esteem and poor motivation.
Transformation skills can be used to enhance both self-esteem and motivation.
Depression is often associated with an attitude of hopelessness and helplessness.
Transformation skills can be used to overcome hopelessness and helplessness by helping you set goals, plan how to achieve the goals and act on your plans.
Depression is often associated with inadequate information about how to accomplish goals.
Transformation skills can be used to find the information that you need.
Depression is often associated with inadequate support.
Transformation skills can be used to get the support that you need...both biological support for your body and psychosocial support for your mind.
Depression is often associated with not taking good care of yourself...both physically and emotionally.
Transformation skills can be used to take good care of your body and take good care of your mind.
Depression is often associated with inactivity or with a passive approach to life.
Transformation skills can be used to develop a more active approach to life.
Depression is often associated with negative ways of thinking and negative feelings.
Transformation skills can be used to change negative ways of thinking...which, in turn, changes the negative feelings.
Depression is often associated with self-deception.
Transformation skills can be used to identify and overcome self-deception.
Depression is often associated with self-defeating behavior patterns.
Transformation skills can be used to recognize these destructive behavior patterns and replace them with constructive behavior patterns.
Depression is often associated with poor progress when efforts to change have not worked out.
Transformation skills can be used to strengthen progress when your efforts to change are successful. Transformation skills can also be used to make corrections when progress is poor.
Comment from a workshop participant:
I want to thank you for your workshop. When I came here I didn't know where my life was going. Now you have given me hope and some steps I can take to make my life better.

What Are These Tools?
In Brief, Transformation Skills Are 20 Keys To Making And Maintaining Successful Changes In Your Life
Do you feel like you don't have the tools needed to self help depression, sadness, and other painful feelings?
The "How To Transform Your Life" E-Workshop can help you develop the coping skills that you need.
Since 1977, I have had the privilege of working with many people as they made changes in their lives. Some of these people were suffering with very difficult problems...
chronic anxiety
depression
serious illness
severe family conflict
heartbreaking losses and grief
unrelenting addictions
Others had less difficult situations...
the need to start and stick with a budget
a desire to lose weight
the need to develop better study habits
But all of them wanted to change something about themselves or their lives.
Over the years, as I worked with my clients, I often felt their frustration.
There is no doubt that self helping a problem such as depression is hard. Often it is even harder to maintain progress.
This caused me to search hard to find answers -- techniques and tools that can be used to effectively cope with problems. I wanted to find coping skills that my clients could use to self help depression and other problems.
By reading and studying journal articles, books, research reports, and case histories, I have been able to gather a collection of such tools. I found that these tools not only helped people make desired changes -- they helped them maintain those changes.
Thus, I consider these tools to be keys to successful change. They seemed to be the coping skills needed to transform negative feelings, thoughts, and behaviors into positive feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
These skills were found scattered through the scientific research and the people-helping-experiences of some of today's most well known psychologists and psychiatrists.
I also learned that the techniques of effective change taught by pioneers in the mental health field are much the same as those taught by religious leaders and leaders in the area of personal development and success.
A Program To Help You Transform Your Life Was Developed
As I learned how people successfully overcome problems, I shared the information with my clients. They, then, applied the coping skills to their own problems. The outcome was reported back to me.
Over time, a list of 20 coping skills was developed.
This list was revised, refined, and finally, organized into a step-by-step training program -- A program designed to help people learn the coping skills needed to self help depression and other problems.
I call these 20 coping skills Transformation Skills. They are the tools that you can use to make your life better.
They are the skills needed for effective...
self-improvement
self-management
coping
problem solving
I have taught these skills to many men and women. The skills have been taught as a part of group psychotherapy programs in two psychiatric hospitals and an office psychotherapy practice.
An Online E-Workshop/E-Book
The training program has now been developed into an E-Book -- The "How To Transformation Your Life" E-Workshop. This E-Workshop/E-Book is now available to you.
The E-Workshop/E-Book will help you learn two plans for changing your life...
The GROW Plan -- can help you develop the coping skills and abilities needed to make your overall life better.
As you work on your overall life using the GROW Plan, there will be times when you get stuck...when problems, such as depression, get in your way.
The CURE Plan -- can help you overcome these problems so that you can resume making progress toward your goals.
The E-Workshop/E-Book is a PDF document which can be read on any computer with Adobe Reader 5.0(or later). You can download it into your computer and be reading it in less than 30 minutes.
Topics covered by The "How To Transform Your Life" E-Workshop include...
how to develop life changing super goals
how to attack dissatisfactions
how to improve self-esteem
how to motivate yourself
how to get the help that you need to reach your goals
how to effectively plan change
how to move beyond plans into action
how to tap into the wisdom and power of negative feelings
how to convert negative feelings into insight
how to avoid the self-deception trap
how to avoid the self-defeating behavior trap
how to choose actions that will increase life satisfaction
how to strengthen progress
how to make changes when progress is poor
Through the E-Workshop/E-Book you will be able to learn the coping skills needed to self help depression...and to make your life all that it can be.
When you attend an on-site workshop you have an opportunity to interact with the workshop presenter and other participants. When you purchase the E-Workshop you will also be able to interact with the workshop presenter and other participants through an online forum -- the Transformation Skills Forum.
This forum has been created just for those who have participated in transformation skills training. The forum provides a place for participants to share experiences, ask questions, give suggestions, and provide support to each other.
The Transformation Skills Forum will be a great help as you apply the transformation skills to your life.
Clients in my office groups pay up to $80 a session to attend groups. In these groups they interact with and get feedback from others who are applying the Transformation Skills to life issues and problems.
By participating in the Transformation Skills Forum you will also be able to interact with and get feedback from others who are using the Transformation Skills.
When you purchase The "How to Transform Your Life" E-Workshop you will be given a one year membership in the forum.
And The "How to Transform Your Life" E-Workshop is guaranteed. If you are not completely satisfied with the E-Workshop I will refund the purchase price, no questions asked, within the first 90 days following your purchase. I don't want you to pay me for something that you find unhelpful.
To summarize, The "How to Transform Your Life" E-Workshop is an easy to read E-Workshop/E-Book.
By reading the E-Workshop/E-Book you can learn how to self help depression. You can also learn how to successfully cope with many different life problems. You will learn step-by-step what to do and how to do it.
You will learn 20 coping skills and two plans that you can use to change your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors so that your life can become more satisfying. You will also be able to participate in The Transformation Skills Forum, an online forum that can give you help and support as you apply the transformation skills to your life.
The "How to Transform Your Life" E-Workshop is being offered at a price that almost anyone can afford
Clients in my hospital and office groups pay $80 a session to attend 9 sessions where these skills are taught. The fees billed for attending these groups add up to $720. If the clients attend additional process groups the cost increases.
Because of the low cost of providing this information through the Internet, I am able to offer you The ?How to Transform Your Life? E-Workshop at a price that almost anyone can afford.
The full price for the E-Workshop is only $26.00.
Comment from a workshop participant:
My wife purchased your "How to Transform Your Life" E-Workshop and I have been reading it. I want to tell you that it has really been a blessing to me. Thank you.

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