Anne Filosa - Love Yourself Love Your Life

Excerpt from Chapter 8

THE WHOLE, FULFILLED PERSON MODEL

From sources: Anicent philosophy and theology through to current psychology

(example: Another ChanceHope and Health for the Alcoholic Family, by Sharon Wegscheider)..

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Love Yourself Love Your Life presents a user-friendly method to help you shatter negative belief statements about your own world, and to replace them with positive self-truths and self-worthy claims. Based on the Laws of Attraction, this new model for psychotherapy heals childhood wounds so that you can attract what you most desire in your life. This understanding of how thoughts change reality, combined with Shatter Shadow Analysisa deep therapeutic method to heal trauma has successfully helped many people. When you release deeply buried negative beliefs from past experiences, you realign your intentions and are able to take your power back; you free yourself to shine the light, and achieve well-deserved peace and happiness. Love Yourself Love Your Life is a transforming work that lifts you up and propels you to create a joyful life, and a joyful world.

Shatter Analysis - The name Dr. Anne coined for the clinical model she uses to help people because it transforms a personshatters inner negativity that a client holds about himself and the world. A person comes in broken, like a broken window paneand rather than simply patching the broken window, the therapist removes the broken pane and replaces it with the persons Truth, passions and joys to help transform the personality into an authentic individual pattern, like a stainedglass mosaic that truly expresses the individuals unique beauty and perfection. Also known as Shadow Analysis.

Dr. Anne is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Richmond, Virginia, who was featured in Whos Who in America in 1993-1994 (18th edition). She is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with honors; and by the age of 26, earned a doctorate in Clinical Psychology through the Virginia Consortium of Professional Psychology: College of William and Mary, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Old Dominion University. The author is licensed to practice clinical psychology in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

As a parent of two, and a metaphysician with a fulfilling life, ideas come to this author through unusual personal experiences and even traumas. These perceptions have resulted in a new effective theory of psychotherapy: Called Shatter/Shadow Analysis, it is based on the Law of Attraction and can serve as text for fellow therapists. Shatter Analysis is presented in Love Yourself Love Your Life in entertaining and easily readable laymans terms, so everyone can benefit.

Love Yourself Love Your Life is the product of 35 years of extensive study of psychology, philosophy, theology /spirituality as well as psychotherapeutic experience with people in all walks of life, with varying perspectives and needs. The settings have ranged from residential and inpatient facilities, to the Department of Corrections, to outpatient private practice. The authors clinical speciality areas include relationship issues, family systems, abuse, grief and trauma resolution, stress-related illnesses, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, depression, dissociative disorders, as well as spiritual counseling.

Countless people are learning to love themselves and love their lives by working directly with this author, and now through this book, Love Yourself Love Your Life.

Dr. Anne reminds us: There are no problemsthere are only opportunities to grow.

A. P. Filosa, Psy.D.

1 st Edition Copyright 2008

2 nd Edition (eBook) Copyright 2009

3 rd Edition Copyright 2010

by

A.P Filosa, Psy.D.

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I have so many acknowledgements and words of thanks. I wish to thank my wonderful family: the Filosas-especially Rob, Shirley, Lou, Katie and Tammy; the Hymesesespecially Matt; my great supporter, Eric Siena; and my awesome children, Elise Creekmore for her typing, suggestions and editing, and Trey Creekmore for freedom and direction to accomplish this. Thanks for helping me in so some many ways with this book and this writing process support, insights, inspiration--even oppositional opinions which helped me grow and be able to understand the work through the eyes and needs of others as well as all their hands on help including typing, reading, editing, financial patronage, etc.

I want to also express appreciation to support people in my life who have shared their knowledge with me that provide information for the book as well as for giving their time and energy generously to read, discuss and edit the book and help get the book published Rev. Dwight and Thelma Smith, George Nixon, LPC, Beth Johnson, Joe Burcham, and Robin Zieger, Ph.D. ().

I wish to thank Edna Hepler (notice the twist on Helper) whose partnership with me to type, edit, and format--with a dash of writing thrown in--was a Godsend when my morale was low because the hard drive crashed and part of the original book was lost.

I also express gratitude to Patricia Tucker Dodson for her help with the book cover design and thanks to Devin T. Dodson for his awesome computer graphics. Thanks to the staff at Morris Publishing, especially Gerald Bergstrom, art director, for his extra help and graphicsdynamite logo. Much thanks to Ann Cherry and Mike Shiflett for being my original promotion team, who are generous and gifted in their areas.

I wish to thank Oprah Winfrey and her Staff for all her shows, particularly those imparting a spiritual message, such as The Secret. By bringing these concepts to the publics attention, she has given me the courage to come forth with my ideas, which expand on the Law of Attraction. It is my hope that my books message will bring love and healing to the world following the path that Oprah has so courageously forged and achieved, in my opinion.

I have included a Glossary, which presents new ideas to help you understand and benefit from the book. Words may be defined differently than you have been used to. Feel free now to skim the Glossary, located after .

It would be helpful to keep a journal notebook with you as you read. Begin to write your feeling, thoughts, and responses to exercises. Journaling speeds your progress and helps you dig deeper, as well as remember and integrate what you learn.

You can transform your life. You can be happy and fulfilled.
You are what you believe.