COMPETITION

Other books in today's market talk about the "problems" we have when we are dependent upon others for our success, but Take Back Your Power! offers the solutions for those problems. This book offers resolutions for the 94% of us who cannot create "effective habits" because we are stuck spinning our wheels, unable to develop the desires of our heart. Other books focus upon one aspect of the problem or else they are very general. Take Back Your Power! addresses the root of the problem and shows us how to successfully transition to our dream, the life that is burning deep within. People in support groups and professionals state, "There is nothing like it on the market," and, "This book should be on the coffee-table of every home."

Emotional Intelligence: Author, Daniel Coleman; Publisher, Simon & Schuster, 1990, and, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Author, Stephen Covey; Publisher, Bantam Books, 1990
Take Back Your Power! is the "missing link" between these two bestsellers. The first tells you how your emotions control your intellect and the second informs us of the "habits" others have used successfully. Take Back Your Power! teaches you how to balance your emotions with your intellect, and how to develop your own dream instead of following others' ideas of successful habits. Our dream is the blueprint to our success and Take Back Your Power! is cutting edge with The 7 Secret Steps to living our dream, which have never been taught before.
This book uniquely reveals our dormant inner passions as we develop our own personal "style" instead of imitating someone else's successful habits, because imitation robs us of our authentic identity which lies within, and is only actualized by following our own gut instinct intelligence. We learn from the experiences that our instincts lead us to when we perceive them as lessons, through our own unique "view" - that is not colored by the "view" of someone else who has a totally different path than our own path - or we are destined to repeat each lesson until its unique message is learned. The Steps were developed to uncover the life-style that is inimitably our own, just like our fingerprints.

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: Author, John Gray; Publisher, Harper/Collins, 1992

    Author John Gray presents a short term solution which is highly popular in cognitive therapy; however, it keeps the person tied to their source of help when problems continue to recur. His book fails to address "the mirror instinct" that prevents us from accepting his suggested behaviors, or how to desensitize "instinctive fear" that traps us in our old patterns.
    He uses his book for successful seminars that have been franchised, but participants report that when they go back to "real life" their old habits reappear and they feel like they "failed" when the problem is that the book and seminar stop short of reaching the full solution. Take Back Your Power! teaches us how to look inside for our answers so we become self-sufficient and are no longer dependent upon others to solve our problems.

Uncommon Sense for Parents: Author, Michael Riera, Ph.D.; Publisher, Celestial Arts, Berkeley, CA, 1995
    This book was a selection from the "Oprah Show Book Club" that became a best seller. This author focuses upon the tough questions parents face during their children's adolescent years. He is quite candid in assessing how it's difficult to answer the questions posed because each child is "unique." Take Back Your Power! provides tools to create the basic parenting knowledge and experiences that most of us are missing because we can't teach something we haven't experienced.

Take Back Your Power! reveals we have to learn how to "value" our Self before we can teach a child how to value his or her Self - his or her uniqueness - the basis for self-esteem! It teaches us that our primary opportunity to create a feeling of being esteemed is through the experience of being valued in childhood so as an adult we can re-create the feeling. Experiencing being valued through nurturing love is the most important parenting of all. When children are taught to value their uniqueness, we will eliminate teen suicide which is now at its highest rate.

MARKETS
Take Back Your Power! has phenomenal universal appeal since 94% of our society experienced "ineffective parenting." It's the first book to teach The 7 Secret Steps to Re-Parenting to the mass audience. The markets include:

the fifty million of us seeking to stop spinning-our- wheels in tug-of-war relationships, who purchase books on Self Help/Personal Improvement, Relationships, Education, Psychology, Pop-Psychology, Health, New Age/Metaphysics, Women's Studies/Women's Issues, Parenting, Inspirational and Spiritual Healing -- a huge market now. The current trend towards spirituality called "hyper-reality" by media analysts, reflects the dissatisfaction with the mundane world and the longing for a more meaningful, fulfilling inner experience.

all Mental Health Professionals, for use in creating support groups in order to avoid lawsuits from transference that occurs in one-on-one "Re-Parenting" sessions, which is the primary reason re-parenting has been avoided. This book has such phenomenal appeal because it is the first book to resolve this issue for the mass audience. At this time, in handbook form, it's being used successfully in Dr. Smith's support groups. It has new step by step practical, tested techniques on how to develop the life we yearn for in the depths of our Soul, using Dr. Smith's expertise.

people between the ages of thirty to fifty five, including the "Baby Boomers," a highly educated market of seventy-seven million. Many are disillusioned with corporate promises that left them devoid of the "illusions of success," so they are seeking to fulfill their inner hunger which Take Back Your Power! will satisfy.

both young and old readers seeking to develop a healthy family. The book has huge appeal as a "Parenting" tool and can be used as promotional material for banks, hospitals and other institutions as a give-away to build public relations. This market includes practically everyone since we all have a family of some sort, even if it's an extended family of friends and community.

leaders and organizers of seminars and workshops making it perfect for franchising, using the book as the reference guide it was designed to be. Dr. Smith plans to continue teaching and her classes will also be a source of sales

the broad range of students, teachers, media people, researchers, thinkers, activists, and professionals, providing an avenue to market work-books, for which Dr. Smith is in the process of compiling material from her groups

education professionals for use in elementary, high school, graduate school, English as a second language classes and the burgeoning field of continuing education. Dr. Smith plans to create Educational and Professional versions for this market. This vital information on human development cracks open the baffling field of teen-age behavior and has the potential to reduce or possibly eliminate teen suicide which is at epidemic proportion today!

No other book on the market has the power to satisfy the yearnings of our heart, leading us to our "bliss," our inner freedom, self-fulfillment, independence, freedom from dominance and control, and, the healing of our "wounded" SpiritSelf, like Take Back Your Power!