Books for Overcoming Difficulties and Loving Life

The 10 Life Changing Couples Tools: Getting the Love and Support You Both Deserve

ABC Parenting: An Easy Effective 3 Step Method for Raising a Successful Child

The IFS Parent Manual: Using Internal Family Systems to Build Your Child’s School and Life Success

The IFS Teacher Manual: A Training Manual for Using Internal Family Systems to Improve Teacher Effectiveness and Student Success

The IFS Deck of Playing Cards: A Tool for Using the Internal Family Systems Approach to Overcome Problems, Understand Your Parts and Strengthen Your Core Self

Books to Be Released Soon

The 10 Life Changing Tools for Dealing with Medical Problems and Improving Your Health and Happiness

The 10 Life Changing Couples Tools: Getting the Love and Support You Both Deserve

Being in a loving relationship is one of the most important things in life. Our relationships bring us to the heights of delight, yet also to the depths of frustration. Being close and intimate with another is a special, wonderful and, often times, challenging thing. There are many phases in a relationship. After the butterflies in the stomach, ‘Wow, this is the person of my dreams’, honeymoon stage, come times of deeper intimacy and tension. Our loved one will at times disappoint, hurt and upset us. Negative interaction patterns can become ingrained overtime. It is at these moments of conflict and tension, however, where our life lessons, healing and intimacy lie. Each of us are meant to achieve a life mission. Our love relationships are there to support our journey and help us fulfill our mission. Partners can fill us with delight or cause emotional stress that create negative ripples in our lives. The 10 Life Changing Couples Tools are a miraculous, must have resource. The 10 Life Changing Tools gives you effective, easy to use techniques to overcome relationship problems and get the love and support you deserve. Unlike other books, the 10 Tools cut to the heart of difficulties between partners. The book is designed to make improving your relationship as easy as possible. Using only one or two of the tools can transform your relationship. The tools can take you from stalemate to soulmate. Dr. Goddard has guided couples through all types of relationships problems for over 30 years. This book distills the best, most effective elements of couples’ therapy. Dr. Goddard’s Tools have helped couples with mild to severe difficulties recover the warmth, love and support of their bond. The stress of modern life and negative interaction patterns get in the way of our love. This book helps you overcome both the surface annoyances and ingrained negative sabotaging patterns. The 10 Life Changing Tools will help you and your husband, wife, partner, girlfriend or boyfriend strengthen the passion, delight, connection and happiness in your life. Our relationships are there to help heal our wounds, fill us with love and evolve emotionally, socially and spiritually. It is a waste of our precious life moments to let relationship frustrations and hurt linger. A little effort and using one or more of the tools can transform your relationship and life in wonderful, satisfying, delightful ways

ABC Parenting: An Easy Effective 3 Step Method for Raising a Successful Child

Academic standards are higher than ever before. Children are expected to learn harder and more complex material in earlier and earlier grades. Children today are frustrated and struggling to meet the challenges of schoolwork. Parents are upset and worried. We are undertaking an experiment in child rearing. Never before in history have children been brought up by electrons; exposed to so much technological audio-visual stimulation. ABC Parenting gives you power and control. This book is unlike any other parenting book. ABC Parenting enables you to build the skills your child needs in today’s tough, unforgiving world. The book gives you an easy, effective discipline, motivation and skill building method to improve your child’s school and life success. For a fraction of the cost of one therapy session you can gain the benefits of Dr. Goddard's 30 years of experience working with children, parents and schools.

The Parent IFS Manual: Using Internal Family Systems to Build Your Child’s School and Life Success

According to Dr. Richard Schwartz: "I am thrilled by the way that Rodger Goddard has translated the principles and techniques of the Internal Family Systems model (IFS) of psychotherapy into these wonderful manuals. It has been a dream of mine that someone would bring my life’s work to education. I knew that if children learned this new loving and healing way of understanding and relating to themselves, their lives would be much better. Similarly, if teachers knew practical ways to maintain an open-hearted, excited presence when they taught, their classrooms would be enticing learning environments and they wouldn’t burn out. Now Rodger and other colleagues are making that dream come true. His manuals are highly user-friendly, full of clear, simple language and lovely illustrations, all professionally organized. They also offer experiential exercises that bring the work to life and allow users to integrate the practice into their daily interactions with the world. I feel honored that someone with his background and success undertook this project of bringing this empowering, practical paradigm to teachers and children and that he has done such an amazing job.” Many children today have emotional, behavioral, social and learning difficulties that get in the way of school and life success. School work today is tough. Children today need excellent understanding, reading, writing, problem solving, persistence and memorization skills. Today’s pressures lead many children to feel upset, insecure, angry, shame, nervous, worried and other intense emotions. Many children, when frustrated or anxious by the demands of schoolwork, give up. Children often pretend that they do not want to learn in order to hide their fear of being seen as ‘dumb’. Negative behaviors, low motivation and poor school work often result from the frustration and anxiety children feel. IFS to the rescue. Internal Family Systems is an amazing tool for helping children succeed and parents to be less stressed and more effective. IFS helps to strengthen our children’s Core, Positive, Inner Self. IFS helps children build a wide array of the skills needed for school and life success. IFS builds a child’s capacity to overcome problems and not give up. IFS helps children recognize when they are taken over by frustration, anxiety, boredom, moods, emotions and states that get in the way of their learning. The model gives children a way to overcome barriers to learning. IFS helps to build the social, emotional, learning and behavior skills that our children need for life success.

The IFS Deck of Playing Cards: A Tool for Using the Internal Family Systems Approach to Overcome Problems, Understand Your Parts and Strengthen Your Core Self (Click on the book cover for Amazon Preview)

IFS is wonderful and life changing. The IFS approach, however, can be difficult to use. The IFS Deck of Cards uses the powerful metaphor of a card game to increase our awareness of the parts that we and others 'play'. The metaphor and deck help us choose the 'hand', part or self-quality, we want to 'play' in response to another's 'anteing up' of their parts. The deck describes common parts in detail and the IFS approach. The 13 Clubs embody our aggressive Protectors, Spades our distancing Protectors, Hearts our wounded Exiles and Diamonds our Core Self Qualities. The card games help us care for our Protectors, heal our Exiles and live more fully in Self. However, without ever using the cards to play a game, the cards and metaphor empower us throughout the day. The cards build our awareness of being taken over by 'mission obsessed' parts on 'Steroids'. The cards can free us from being stuck in automatic part reactions. The deck is a particularly useful tool for couples engaged in endless protector battles in order to stop negative interaction patterns and improve Self to Self-care. The cards help us to love all our parts, strengthen our Core Self, heal our inner wounds and live happy, successful lives. The cards are available as actual cards or in ebook format. According to Dr. Richard Schwartz: "This is a very impressive product that could help many people understand and use IFS. It is visually beautiful and professional, full of great content and I can see how the cards could be very helpful for couples as they interact or individuals as they map the parts that react to various events. Rather than stereotyping parts into a rigid system of categories, this system includes both the extreme role and the common valuable non-extreme roles of each part so it conveys that, like people, they each have a wide range. I'm also glad to see cards that convey common Self qualities".

Services Include:

• STRESS, ANXIETY & Panic CONTROL

• PARENTING AND COUPLES ISSUES

• DEPRESSION, GUILT, LOW SELF ESTEEM 

• WORK, FINANCIAL ISSUES, RETIREMENT

• SPIRITUAL CRISIS, PERSONAL HEALTH

• LGBTQ ISSUES 

• COPING WITH Medical ILLNESS 

• HEALING CHILDHOOD TRAUMA 

• LOSS, BEREAVEMENT AND DISABILITY