Positive Intentions : a Workbook for Living Your Purpose and Passion
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Karen Van Acker, MA
Karen Van Acker MA LPC CADCI is a licensed professional counselor with the State of Oregon who works with ages 13 through 70. She uses short term, goal directed, trauma informed therapy with Jungian influence in individual and/or family sessions to help people to relieve symptoms that come in conflict with living the fullest life possible. Her focus areas are complex trauma, women’s issues, LGBT, A/D recovery and working with parents of children with autism. Her undergraduate degree is from Portland State University where she earned a Bachelors of Science degree in the Social Sciences with a minor in Natural Science. She earned her Masters in Counseling from George Fox University, and is currently working to complete her doctoral degree in General Psychology.
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Positive Intentions - Karen Van Acker, MA
POSITIVE
INTENTIONS:
A WORKBOOK FOR LIVING YOUR PURPOSE AND PASSION
KAREN VAN ACKER MA
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ISBN: 978-1-5043-6006-7 (sc)
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Balboa Press rev. date: 08/10/2016
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Who Am I?
Chapter 2: ME Myself & I
Chapter 3: What Is Your Personality Type?
Chapter 4: Defining Your Values
Chapter 5: Unearth Your Inner Passion
Chapter 6: Increase the Positive Voices in Your Life
Chapter 7: Surround Yourself with the Right People
Chapter 8: Developing Your Own Voice
Chapter 9: Control You’re Anxiety with Guided Imagery
Chapter 10: Creating Space for Change
Chapter 11: Focusing on What is Right with Me
Chapter 12: The Outcome of Your Outcomes
Preface
Desire also makes you willing to become accountable for your plan, and that makes you more willing to create the plan you need to win.
—Zig Ziglar
I wrote this book because I have lived.
Through my life, I haven’t made the wisest choices but they were my choices and I am happy to say I owned them. While a wild journey, I have grown into someone whom I can admire and love. The one thing my life has taught me is to always focus on the positive. To focus on what is working instead of what isn’t working. Giving negative thoughts attention generally leads to those negative thoughts gaining momentum and taking over your life. If you say, "I am having a terrible day. I am having a terrible day.