HOLLADAY, Utah, May 24, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- For everyone who stresses about taking care of those around them while ignoring their own needs, author Kirt C. Kershaw offers his new book, My Sessions with Joe (now available through AuthorHouse), a self help guide told from the viewpoint of someone who knows what it is like to overcome codependency.
Kershaw opens the doors, literally and figuratively, to his sessions with Joe, his therapist and mentor, and invites readers to experience firsthand the details and characteristics of codependency. Joe's forthright observations come from a therapist who is in the business to help others help themselves. My Sessions with Joe gives several options to controlling behavior and helps readers understand that overcoming codependency encompasses more than letting go; it also requires filling the "holes" with something good. That, he says, begins with the individual.
"Though Joe started me on the path of freedom from codependency, it was primarily the principle of learning how to healthily think for myself that keeps me free today," says Kershaw.
Each of the book's eight chapters is broken into two parts: sessions and present perspective. Within each session, dialogue between Joe and the author concludes with the therapist assigning an exercise, after which Kershaw shares his feelings and reactions. Readers are then encouraged to try the same application. The purpose of each session is to help readers see that they are not alone when trying to understand their own emotional struggles with codependency. In the second half of each chapter, Kershaw puts the sessions into context. It is here that he shares his own battles to remain codependent free. Some are paralleled with a metaphor or short story, and each relates to its respective session. This gives readers a barometer by which to measure their own experiences and plan their strategies for handling similar battles.
My Sessions with Joe is a fresh and engaging look at what it takes to overcome codependency from someone who continues to wage this very personal war.
Kershaw earned a degree in mass communications with an emphasis in broadcast journalism from the University of Utah. A Microsoft Office certified instructor, he owns a software training company, Dream Force LLC. My Sessions with Joe is his first book. For more information, visit his Web sit at www.aron.aros.net.
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