Life Skills: Keys to Effective Living

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Summary: Therapist's View
Review: As a Psychotherapist I have found Raiguel's Life Skills to be a valuable adjunct in working with adults coping with abuse and abuse patterns set in childhood. Clients do the workbook on their own time, bringing salient issues to therapy sessions. Life Skills gives clients hope and insight. All of this, of course, leads to a sense of personal power. Go, Raiguel!

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Summary: Life Skills opens doors of communication...
Review: As an active minister of a church and spiritual growth center in Southern California, I have had the opportunity to use Ms. Raiguel's book both in teaching (ministers and practitioners) and in counseling situations. The information is presented in a clear and simple way- so that topics, which might normally be a bit overwhelming within themselves, are more easily received.

I recommend this book to other ministers, counselors and churches. It has become a 'must have' for me.

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Summary: Insightful, informative, practical, "reader friendly".
Review: In Life Skills: Keys To Effective Living, Jill Raiguel draws upon her many years of training and experience as a licensed marriage, family, and child counselor specializing in trauma and abuse therapy to write a comprehensive presentation identifying the twenty essential life skills necessary to overcoming physical, sexual, mental or emotional abuse to live happy fulfilling lives. Her step-by-step approach is thoroughly "reader friendly", insightful, informative, practical, accessible, and effective. Life Skills is highly recommended and rewarding reading and a productive self-help workbook for anyone involved in an abusive relationship.

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Summary: Everybody's Raving About Life Skills!
Review: Jill Raiguel's "Life Skills" has given me a solid principles to live life daily feeling mentally and emotionally healthy and well. This is a must book for everyone in recovery or anyone living in today's world!

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Summary: Everybody's Raving About Life Skills!
Review: Jill Raiguel's "Life Skills" has given me a solid principles to live life daily feeling mentally and emotionally healthy and well. This is a must book for everyone in recovery or anyone living in today's world!

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Summary: "Life Skills: Keys to Effective Living" is a winner!
Review: Jill Raiguel's book, Life Skills: Keys to Effective Living is a comprehensive workbook for developing the skills necessary to create a happy, healthy life. Raiguel has developed a unique quiz that will show the reader exactly how many of the 20 identified life skills are missing. She then goes on to identify specific strategies that can be used to develop that particular skill. I thought this book was great. It's not only for those who have suffered from abuse, Life Skills: Keys to Effective Living is for anyone who wants to create a better life.

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Summary: Jill Raiguel's Work Is A Blessing!
Review: My husband and I were fortunate enough to be members of the author's second 6-month Lifeskills group in the middle 1980s. Her extraordinary work in teaching LifeSkills to adult survivors of abuse has profoundly changed both our lives and strenghthened our marriage immeasurably. Her life skills are a blue-print for all adults whose childhoods did not allow them to acquire the basic life-skills that most people take for granted, such as managing their own money, setting goals, setting reasonable limits, not accepting abusive behavior, prioritizing, etc. Each chapter contains deceptively simple exercises, that not only teach vital coping skills, but open the door to exploring why these skills have been lacking. The keynote of Ms. Raiguel's workbook is safety--she has an uncanny skill as a healer, and makes the reader feel safe while some very difficult issues are explored. This book is an essential manual for anyone who has survived childhood abuse or neglect.

The skills we both learned from Ms. Raiguel, all of which are covered in this workbook, have enriched our lives immeasurably. I earned a MS in Counseling after working with Jill, and took her Professional Training Course, then worked for many years with abusive mothers who had themselves been abused children. Jill's lifeskills were a key factor in helping them develop healthy skills, getting their children back, and ending the cycle of abuse in their families forever. Her work--all of which is covered in this book--has permanently changed countless lives for the better. Bravissima, Jill! Your work is one of my life's great blessings.

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Summary: The Best Emotional Support Book Written For Victims of Abuse
Review: My life has been one of grose alcohol abuse from all sides, both parents were alcoholics, both spouses and numerous friends in between. I attracted to me those that would hurt me. Jill's book helped me identify patterns in my life and understand how I was worthy of having a very different life. After reading the book and applying the principles and seeing who I am, my life has soared. My confidence in who I am has been elevated to new levels.... I am complete with me, and it is wonderful.....

I would recommend Jill's book to anyone who has had any verbal or physical abuse from twisted alcholic thinkers. You do not have to stay a victim nor do you need to remain in situations that corrupt your life. Read this book apply the insights to your life and become free to be who you are....You're worth it.

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Summary: "Life Skills: Keys to Effective Living" is a winner!
Review: We were the only married couple to be part of the pilot project that this book is based on. Fifteen years later, we still find ourselves using the skills we learned and the insights we discovered about ourselves and each other. Jill's work in the field of abuse is important and groundbreaking. The love, passion and integrity she brings to everything she does makes a difference in the lives of people she touches, especially ours. Now you can be a part of this wonderful work and benefit from her years of experience through this powerful book.