- Airing of KSBR interview
- Brazos Book Store, Houston TX. Presentation and signing
September 2006
- Quick and Simple magazine
June 2006
- Articles in Laguna Beach Independent, Coastline Pilot and Laguna News-Post
- Latitude 33 Bookstore – book signing
- Jolly Roger- book signing
- KSBR radio interview taping
REVIEWS
TAKE-CHARGE LIVING How to Recast Your Role in Life . . . In Six Acts by Marion
Kramer Jacobs, Ph.D.
iUniverse
2021 Pine Lake Road, Lincoln, NE
www.iuniverse..com
www.take-chargeliving.com
Genre: Nonfiction/Self-Help
ISBN: 0595372600, $15.95, 152 pp, 2006
I receive quite a few self-help
books to review and have written one myself, Ladies Are You Lost? Options
for Women in Unhealthy Relationships. But, Dr. Jacobs’s book is exceptional
and stands out from all the rest. It’s exceptional on many different
levels–for its content, for the years of experience Dr. Jacobs shares
with us, for its presentation and creative style.
It is well-organized, well-written
and designed to be a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to making constructive
changes, of any kind, in ones life. Marion writes, and I quote from page 5:
"Without getting technical,
Take-Charge Living: How to Recast Your Role in Life .. . . In Six Acts connects
provocative findings from brain research with the best of my clinical knowledge.
The result is a book that explains the dynamics of how people change and offers
you, the reader, an easy-to-follow, carefully mapped out, six-act program
for overcoming emotional resistance to change and successfully guiding yourself
through the change process.
"Beyond changing any specific
pattern of thinking or behavior, the overarching message of this book is that
you can change the whole tenor of your life by adopting what I like to call
a take-charge living perspective. That perspective says, as long as more than
one way to handle a situation exists, the way you go about it as well as how
you think, feel, and act is a choice you are making. Because many of our ways
have become so habitual, it may not feel like a choice. But it is. . . ."
"Changing can be an exciting
journey. I very much hope you will choose to make that journey with me. We
only get one life, so please do not squander yours on endless mental dress
rehearsals. The time to move forward is now."
Quoting from the rear cover:
"Dr. Jacobs is a clinical
psychologist in private practice in Laguna Beach, California and Adjunct Professor
of Psychology at UCLA. She was Coordinator of UCLA’s Psychology Clinic
for 19 years as well as Co-Director of the California Self-Help Center at
UCLA. .. . ."
For anyone looking to make
a positive change in their life, I would highly recommend this book.
Reviewed by Kaye Trout - July
14, 2006 - Copyright
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Jacobs, Ph.D., Marion
Kramer
TAKE-CHARGE LIVING:
How to Recast Your Role in
Life…In Six Acts
iUniverse Editor's Choice (152 pp.)
$15.95 paperback
March 23, 2006
ISBN: 0-595-37260-0
A straightforward, practical toolkit for identifying and overcoming
barriers to change.
As clinical psychologist Dr. Jacobs demonstrates in this slim,
efficient volume, our minds and bodies often work together to
keep us from making changes that would improve our lives. Though
the title may turn away some readers, the book's structural concept,
acting, is an integral component of the process. Not just a gimmick,
this overarching theme helps reinforce the fundamental principles
of rehearsing and repetition in working toward change. Jacobs's
caring, direct approach will engage even the therapy-averse. She
teaches readers how to identify a desired change, to examine the
emotional barriers that prevent one from making that change and
to devise a practical plan of action for working
toward a goal. Illustrating how the mind and body are deeply and
intricately bound, she outlines the four systems that interact
to shape how we act and feel: emotions, bodily reactions, thoughts
and behavior. Since we can't directly turn on or off the first
two, Jacobs advocates focusing on changing the latter two. What
distinguishes this book from much self-help hokum is the realistic
discussion of the intense negative feelings that often arise from
enacting change, and the techniques required for withstanding
those feelings and moving forward. As the author explains, it's
necessary to take swift action, to forge ahead using a step-by-step
plan, gradually diminishing fearful emotions by giving the brain
evidence that engaging in the new behavior isn't as dangerous
as it had thought. Her methods are grounded in years of experience
as a therapist, as shown through the case studies she uses to
illustrate steps and challenges encountered in taking charge.
A self-help book that could actually work.
-Kirkus Discoveries
Kirkus Discoveries, VNU US Literary Group, 770 Broadway, New York,
NY 10003 646-654-4686 fax 646-654-4706
discoveries@kirkusreviews.com
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NEWS
The first book signing
of Take-Charge Living: How to Recast your Role in Life... In Six Acts
by Marion K. Jacobs was hosted by Tom Ahern, proprietor of Latitude 33
bookstore in Laguna Beach on June 8th, 2006.
One hundred friends and well wishers were in attendance.
Latitude 33
311 Ocean Ave
Laguna Beach 92651
(949) 494-5403
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