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Name: Jackie McCullough
Phone number: 585-752-0274
E-mail: [email protected]
A Compelling, Inspiring, Succinct Handbook to Help Trauma Survivors Put Themselves Back in Control of Their Lives.
Simple Truths that Turned Severe Childhood Abuse, Depression, and Anxiety to Joy, Love, and Happiness.
An inspiring book from someone who has lived through extreme trauma.to help others find a way to bring control, peace, joy, and happiness to their lives
In Kathy Said, You’re Not Lost to Me, ($14.99 Joy Choice Press, 2013, ISBN 9781490442587) author Jackie McCullough, compellingly and succinctly gives readers a view of her childhood abuse and interaction with her therapist, Kathy Martin, LCSW, that helped her heal from post traumatic stress disorder. McCullough’s father was a raging alcoholic pedophile, and Kathy’s therapy was instrumental in her achieving the long sought after goal of a joyful, peaceful, happy life.
Easy to read, she relates specific tools she learned that gave her the courage to “hang in there” to achieve her goal. This is important information for those who suffer from stress, anxiety, and depression.
Kathy Said, You’re Not Lost to Me, is formatted in such a way that each powerful thought can stand alone and be of inspiration to the reader when he/she wants some relief, in the moment, from fear, anxiety, or overwhelming feelings.
The majority of people who have purchased Kathy Said, You’re Not Lost to Me, have either purchased another one for a friend, or passed theirs on to a friend they believed would be helped by it.
Name: Jackie McCullough
Phone number: 585-752-0274
E-mail: [email protected]
A Compelling, Inspiring, Succinct Handbook to Help Trauma Survivors Put Themselves Back in Control of Their Lives.
Simple Truths that Turned Severe Childhood Abuse, Depression, and Anxiety to Joy, Love, and Happiness.
An inspiring book from someone who has lived through extreme trauma.to help others find a way to bring control, peace, joy, and happiness to their lives
In Kathy Said, You’re Not Lost to Me, ($14.99 Joy Choice Press, 2013, ISBN 9781490442587) author Jackie McCullough, compellingly and succinctly gives readers a view of her childhood abuse and interaction with her therapist, Kathy Martin, LCSW, that helped her heal from post traumatic stress disorder. McCullough’s father was a raging alcoholic pedophile, and Kathy’s therapy was instrumental in her achieving the long sought after goal of a joyful, peaceful, happy life.
Easy to read, she relates specific tools she learned that gave her the courage to “hang in there” to achieve her goal. This is important information for those who suffer from stress, anxiety, and depression.
Kathy Said, You’re Not Lost to Me, is formatted in such a way that each powerful thought can stand alone and be of inspiration to the reader when he/she wants some relief, in the moment, from fear, anxiety, or overwhelming feelings.
The majority of people who have purchased Kathy Said, You’re Not Lost to Me, have either purchased another one for a friend, or passed theirs on to a friend they believed would be helped by it.
Life Coach/Counselor, Jackie McCullough, lives in the Charleston, South Carolina area. She has healed from clinical depression, a “fragmented psyche,” and post-traumatic stress disorder (resulting from her childhood of violence and abuse).
Kathy Said, You’re Not Lost to Me is the story of Jackie’s healing, and words her therapist said to her that helped her get through years of therapy - truths she held on to between therapy sessions to keep her going. Advice from her therapist also seemed to run through many of Jackie’s conversations with other people. She often heard herself saying, “Kathy said this” or “Kathy said that.” Her clients, as well as friends and associates, find these bits of wisdom helpful, and she believes others will too. She believes her most important message is: There is always hope. If she could get well, so can others.
She is working on a new book about beliefs she has changed that have empowered and enhanced her life and well being .
Jackie was certified as an Option Process® Mentor Counselor and Group Facilitator at the Option Institute in Sheffield, Massachusetts. She uses the things she learned in psychotherapy and at the Option Institute to help others improve their lives.
Jackie is active in her local Unity Church. Some of Jackie’s favorite pastimes are walking in the woods, bird watching, gardening, reading, golf, yoga, meditation, and helping others triumph.
[email protected]
Kathy Said, You’re Not Lost to Me is the story of Jackie’s healing, and words her therapist said to her that helped her get through years of therapy - truths she held on to between therapy sessions to keep her going. Advice from her therapist also seemed to run through many of Jackie’s conversations with other people. She often heard herself saying, “Kathy said this” or “Kathy said that.” Her clients, as well as friends and associates, find these bits of wisdom helpful, and she believes others will too. She believes her most important message is: There is always hope. If she could get well, so can others.
She is working on a new book about beliefs she has changed that have empowered and enhanced her life and well being .
Jackie was certified as an Option Process® Mentor Counselor and Group Facilitator at the Option Institute in Sheffield, Massachusetts. She uses the things she learned in psychotherapy and at the Option Institute to help others improve their lives.
Jackie is active in her local Unity Church. Some of Jackie’s favorite pastimes are walking in the woods, bird watching, gardening, reading, golf, yoga, meditation, and helping others triumph.
[email protected]
Seven Tips Kathy Said, You're Not Lost to Me/Jackie McCullough
Seven Ways to Turn Severe Abuse, Depression, Hopelessness, and Anxiety into Peace of Mind.
According to Healthline.com, Depression is a condition that reportedly affects one in ten Americans at one time or another in their lives. This book is designed as a user friendly handbook for fearful, anxious, or depressed people, and gives simple tips to readers to help them navigate through those dark days.
McCullough says: “As you read this book I will be holding your hand and reassuring you, that no matter how distressed you feel, there is always hope for recovery, peace of mind, and happiness.
Seven Tips to help fearful, anxious, or depressed people get through the day.
Tip 1: Embrace your innate lovability, your personal relationships will dramatically improve. No matter what you may have been told or believed, You are lovable!
Tip 2: There is always hope. Hopelessness is from the past. It probably was hopeless to take care of yourself in ways that you needed when you were small, but you are an adult now and Today there is hope.
Tip 3: We each have all of your own answers inside ourselves. We were told by others that they had all of our answers and we believed them. The reality is that we know what is best for us and we can look inside for our answers.
Tip 4: We are each responsible or our own feelings. We can’t hurt anyone else’s feelings and they can’t hurt ours.
Tip 5: Feelings come and feelings go. So often we have believed that if we let ourselves cry, we would never stop. We have always stopped and will again. Crying can be very healing.
Tip 6: It is not our feelings that make us so depressed; it is holding down (depressing)
the uncomfortable feelings so as not to feel them, that keeps us stuck.
Tip 7: You can trust yourself. I Repeat: You can trust yourself.
Seven Ways to Turn Severe Abuse, Depression, Hopelessness, and Anxiety into Peace of Mind.
According to Healthline.com, Depression is a condition that reportedly affects one in ten Americans at one time or another in their lives. This book is designed as a user friendly handbook for fearful, anxious, or depressed people, and gives simple tips to readers to help them navigate through those dark days.
McCullough says: “As you read this book I will be holding your hand and reassuring you, that no matter how distressed you feel, there is always hope for recovery, peace of mind, and happiness.
Seven Tips to help fearful, anxious, or depressed people get through the day.
Tip 1: Embrace your innate lovability, your personal relationships will dramatically improve. No matter what you may have been told or believed, You are lovable!
Tip 2: There is always hope. Hopelessness is from the past. It probably was hopeless to take care of yourself in ways that you needed when you were small, but you are an adult now and Today there is hope.
Tip 3: We each have all of your own answers inside ourselves. We were told by others that they had all of our answers and we believed them. The reality is that we know what is best for us and we can look inside for our answers.
Tip 4: We are each responsible or our own feelings. We can’t hurt anyone else’s feelings and they can’t hurt ours.
Tip 5: Feelings come and feelings go. So often we have believed that if we let ourselves cry, we would never stop. We have always stopped and will again. Crying can be very healing.
Tip 6: It is not our feelings that make us so depressed; it is holding down (depressing)
the uncomfortable feelings so as not to feel them, that keeps us stuck.
Tip 7: You can trust yourself. I Repeat: You can trust yourself.
Sample Questions & Answers re. Jackie McCullough/Kathy Said You’re Not Lost to Me
Q: What is a fragmented psyche?
A: If you have heard of multiple personality disorder, it is similar, but not as extreme. Instead of “an” inner child, I have 9. These are mind fragments that I made up because of the extreme abuse and having no one available to rescue me or nurture me.
Q: What do you mean?
A: I made up children in my mind when the feelings of fear and anger were too overwhelming for a small child to handle. So I “created” other children to share those feelings. Two of these fragments “children” dealt with the world and my mother, six of them dealt with my father and the sexual abuse and the ninth one was the go-between who was always trying to decide “who” to be.
Actually, I understand now that they were my ego trying to make me feel safer in an unsafe world. They were helpful in enabling me to survive childhood, but not useful in the adult world.
Q: What do you mean?
A: Because the fragments held on to the fear and anger of my childhood, I spent my adult life in anxiety and depression, until I had therapy to heal that. Now my mind knows I am one adult and because of the healing, I can choose how I want to feel, instead of being stuck in the past.
Q: How do you see this book helping others?
A: It gives a few pages of my life story and then the main part of the book is a kind of handbook for people who are struggling emotionally. Each page contains just one situation that came up in therapy, and the bit of wisdom my therapist, Kathy Martin, told me that helped me through it.
Q: How did you arrive at the format?
A: I had two friends who were in therapy with Kathy at the same time I was and we were often reminding each other of things “Kathy said” to get us through our days between therapy sessions. Then when I started counseling others, I also referred to the things “Kathy said” to help my clients. It grew out of that.
Q: You also give credit to the Option Institute in Massachusetts for your healing and joy of life. Can you tell me about that?
A: I believe the Option Institute and what they teach is the best kept secret on the planet!
I was still in therapy when I found the Option Institute (though maybe it found me). It is in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts. They teach personal growth programs. I learned there that every feeling and behavior I have is generated by a belief and our beliefs can be changed. Even the beliefs that we aren’t aware of can be brought to our attention by something called the Option Dialogue. Then we get to look at our deeply held beliefs and decide if we want to keep them or change them.
Q: Do you have an example of that?
A: Yes, I used to be afraid to speak in front of groups. In an Option Dialogue I uncovered my belief that it was “dangerous to speak to a group (my parents)” because they would likely be angry and physically hurt me. I then realized that was an old belief, and I was in no danger speaking to groups of people today.
Q: What is a fragmented psyche?
A: If you have heard of multiple personality disorder, it is similar, but not as extreme. Instead of “an” inner child, I have 9. These are mind fragments that I made up because of the extreme abuse and having no one available to rescue me or nurture me.
Q: What do you mean?
A: I made up children in my mind when the feelings of fear and anger were too overwhelming for a small child to handle. So I “created” other children to share those feelings. Two of these fragments “children” dealt with the world and my mother, six of them dealt with my father and the sexual abuse and the ninth one was the go-between who was always trying to decide “who” to be.
Actually, I understand now that they were my ego trying to make me feel safer in an unsafe world. They were helpful in enabling me to survive childhood, but not useful in the adult world.
Q: What do you mean?
A: Because the fragments held on to the fear and anger of my childhood, I spent my adult life in anxiety and depression, until I had therapy to heal that. Now my mind knows I am one adult and because of the healing, I can choose how I want to feel, instead of being stuck in the past.
Q: How do you see this book helping others?
A: It gives a few pages of my life story and then the main part of the book is a kind of handbook for people who are struggling emotionally. Each page contains just one situation that came up in therapy, and the bit of wisdom my therapist, Kathy Martin, told me that helped me through it.
Q: How did you arrive at the format?
A: I had two friends who were in therapy with Kathy at the same time I was and we were often reminding each other of things “Kathy said” to get us through our days between therapy sessions. Then when I started counseling others, I also referred to the things “Kathy said” to help my clients. It grew out of that.
Q: You also give credit to the Option Institute in Massachusetts for your healing and joy of life. Can you tell me about that?
A: I believe the Option Institute and what they teach is the best kept secret on the planet!
I was still in therapy when I found the Option Institute (though maybe it found me). It is in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts. They teach personal growth programs. I learned there that every feeling and behavior I have is generated by a belief and our beliefs can be changed. Even the beliefs that we aren’t aware of can be brought to our attention by something called the Option Dialogue. Then we get to look at our deeply held beliefs and decide if we want to keep them or change them.
Q: Do you have an example of that?
A: Yes, I used to be afraid to speak in front of groups. In an Option Dialogue I uncovered my belief that it was “dangerous to speak to a group (my parents)” because they would likely be angry and physically hurt me. I then realized that was an old belief, and I was in no danger speaking to groups of people today.
