Many of you are familiar with the popular article on the Livestrong website about Detachment by James J Messina. But did you know that Dr. Messina has other articles--they are all part of a Tools for Coping series of books?
He originally owned a website about coping but sold it and it now partners with Livestrong. Many of his articles are on Livestrong and they are at his own website too--the address is just his name with the middle initial.
His detachment article is one of the best I've found and so yesterday I decided to find out if he had any other articles. An Amazon search turned up his out of print Coping Series books, so I then googled him and found his website. The other articles are just as good as the Detachment article and highly relevant to DBing. Here are a few of the titles--I think these are the articles published at Livestrong, but they are also on his personal website along with others.
Accepting Personal Responsibility
What is Low Self Esteem?
Improving Assertive Behavior
Building Trust
Handling Insecurity
Stress Reduction
Self-Affirmations
Improving Listening Skills
Self-Esteem
Handling Forgiving and Forgetting
Letting Go Uncontrollables and Unchangables
Overcoming Perfectionism
Developing Detachment
Eliminating Manipulation
Developing Patience
Eliminating Passive Aggressiveness
Overview of Critical Thinking
Handling Intimacy
Stages of the Loss Process
Handling Fear of Rejection
Handling Fear of Guilt
They are all written in the same list style as the Detachment articles which makes them easy to understand.
