WORKBOOK SECTION
This section is designed to assist you with your self-discovery. If you will take the time to work through the exercise, you will notice a heightened sense of self-knowing and understanding.
The Personal Growth and Development Exercises will most definitely help you uncover the hidden messages that you learned from your youth, the environment, friends, family, broadcast and printed media. Some of this information will be astounding, and some will hit you in a negative sense. Please keep in mind that all experiences work to make you a powerful and spiritual human being.
Rules for Responsible Growth: Very simple reminders of how to bring together all of your emotional and cognitive resources. You probably already know this, but sometimes seeing them organized differently will stimulate a complete new understanding.
Goals Worksheet is a very powerful tool and a very difficult one to do. Individuals who do this exercise have trouble listing all of the things they want because they don’t know what they want. This is an opportune time for you to visualize all of your lost dreams, hopes and material comforts that you would like to obtain. Have fun with this. You can have anything that you want.
Distorted Thinking can prevent you from having all of the things that you visualize. As you work through this list, I am sure you will find examples of ways of thinking that have held you captive, have fun breaking shackles of mental bondage.
Self-esteem Evaluation and Tips to Boost Self Esteem are powerful tools that work together. Once you have discovered, to your dismay, that you may need to work on your self-esteem after completing the evaluation, you will need tips on boosting it.
Beliefs and Relationships is a fact sheet that will help you identify your beliefs about your relationship with others. What you believe and what you feel will affect all of the relationships in your life.
What is the Quality of My Relationships? Your beliefs about your relationships impact how you make friends and what type of people you allow in your life. You may find that you are dealing with the wrong type of people.
The Qualities that I would Like to Develop helps you identify what you want and what you expect from yourself and what you are willing to give to others in order to have a balanced life.
Steps at Resolving Anger this is a powerful fact sheet that merely provides you an idea of specific steps to deal with your anger. In working the various exercises, you perhaps have discovered that you do harbor some deep-seated anger and hostility. You cannot obtain the peace you seek until the anger is resolved and this is an on-going process.
Domestic Violence Information: This is an over-view of what domestic violence is and if you need more specific information, please visit or call your local domestic violence center, like the Women’s Center. This information is important because it shows the different types of domestic violence because many people think that it only involves hitting or beating.