This blog is a tool for those interested in personal growth and development. Topics will be explored such as relationships, parenting, couples conflicts, anxiety and depression, and ways of changing self-defeating behaviors.
James P. Krehbiel, Ed.S., LPC is an author, freelance writer and nationally certified cognitive-behavioral therapist. His most recent book, Troubled Childhood, Triumphant Life: Healing from the Battle Scars of Youth (New Horizon Press) underscores the need to address a major problem in American families. As a result of the movie Blind-Side and studies by the Center for Disease Control/Kaiser Permanante, there has been a groundswell of renewed interest in the impact of troubled childhoods on adult functioning. Troubled Childhood, Triumphant Life is a solution-focused guide for those who desire to break the cycle of self-defeating behavior originating from a perilous past. The reader is provided with an understanding of how negative childhood thoughts and behaviors activate problems in the present. James P. Krehbiel lays out a process that includes self-reflection, recognition, grieving, releasing one’s losses, and strategies for reframing thoughts and behaviors in the here-and-now. The author can be reached at www.scottsdaletherapy.net.