Quest for Your Empowered Self

This is NOT the required book for San Diego Community College Students. The life skills techniques and exercises in this book will help you gain confidence to live the life of your dreams. The book seeks to help you answer the four meaningful questions:• Who am I? (Identity) • Where am I going? (Direction) • Why am I going there? (Purpose) • How will I get there? (Strategy) In order to be self-empowered you must learn these key life skills within a self-empowerment model developed by author Thomas Ventimiglia. It consists of the eight elements of the self that make up the titles of the eight chapters in the book. You will find fifty-six high-powered strategies in bold print that can help you achieve each of the eight elements of the self. In addition you will find 168 life skill exercises that can help you achieve these fifty-six strategies. These exercises have been proven to be successful with college students from ages 18 to 90 as measured by Ventimiglia in his twenty-four years of teaching.You’ll learn state-of-the-art skills in stress management; taking responsibility; raising self-esteem; emotional development; managing anxiety depression and grief; reframing negative thoughts and beliefs; energy psychology methods; learning style identification; meditations; clarifying cultural family religious and societal value systems; life balance; goal achievement; personality style; attracting the right person; setting boundaries of communication; and much more. He has also used these strategies to help others eliminate anxiety phobias trauma pain in the body negative emotions grief PTSD and many other ailments.