Survive and Thrive Series

Dr Eden P Fazel

Average Rating 9/10 (1 Review)

Dr Eden P Fazel travelled extensively working as an aid worker and medical trainer. He researched and experienced different traditions and cultural approaches to good health to write the Survive and Thrive series, a comprehensive emotional health tool kit, including books and audio-CDs.

DIY coaching: Drawing your Life Plan, is a step by step guide to show how it is possible to work towards the life you really want to live. Dr Fazel explains how to identify those areas of life that offer you emotional fulfilment, and shows how it is possible to take control and responsibility for your own life, health and well-being.This empowering guide provides the tools to take control of our destiny, with a series of practical exercises, processes and real life examples.

In Anger: A Very Healthy Emotion, Dr Fazal illustrates the damaging effects of our responses to anger, and shows how to express anger in a healthy way, to cultivate an honest and accepting attitude to anger, and grant ourselves permission to express negative feelings.
He shows how to deal appropriately and constructively with those who engender angry feelings within us and provides coping strategies to deal positively with negative and destructive people and situations in everyday life. Included are helpful examples, tools, and exercises to follow, in a reassuring guide towards healing and growth.

In Growing Out of the Blues, Dr Fazel has provided a user-friendly and compassionate guide for those experiencing depression and those close to, or caring for them. He provides insight into the experience of depression, explores the damaging effects of buried emotional pain, outlines steps towards healing and shows how with the right support it is possible for an episode of depression to eventually lead to a positive renewal of emotional growth.

Review by Ngo Netto (310809) Rating (9/10)

Review by Ngo Netto
Rating 9/10
Your Survive and Thrive Kit in times of Adversity.

Survive and Thrive has published three* new dynamic and challenging illustrated books by Dr Eden P Fazel:

1) DIY Coaching: Drawing Your Life Plan
2) Anger: A Very Healthy Emotion
3) Growing Out of the Blues

Eden's books are original and distinctive reading for anyone who wants to take his life into his own hands, rather than leaving it entirely in the hands of the health professionals and life coaches.

'I believe passionately that we can all take charge of our emotions and learn to live the life we want to,' says Eden. 'Too often we leave our lives entirely in the hands of health professionals but I want to help people take back control of their own lives.' Eden's approach to building physical and emotional health is summed up in two phrases coined by him, DIY coaching and DIY psychology.

His book DIY Coaching: Drawing Your Life Plan helps you to develop your own 'Life Plan', set your own objectives and take measured and reasonable risks to get to the place that you want to be. The Life Plan will help you find the courage to risk developing your life goals and points to the means for making it happen. The Life Plan also gives you a sense of balance and timing. Your personally designed Life Plan will give you the structure and discipline to pursue what you want, makes you aware of all your passions and interests and gives you a direction and a method for implementing your dreams. It will help you discover a new relationship amongst your various interests and create a life that is uniquely your own!

Anger: A Very Healthy Emotion explains how anger is to be embraced, not suppressed. And Growing out of the blues is all about moving out of depression. His words make perfect sense especially in the middle of the current credit crunch that limits our spending power.

Eden's books describe effective approaches to personal management of your life journey and your emotions, using Eden's extensive personal and professional experience across the world. Survive and Thrive Series (Books and Audio-CDs) draw heavily on Eden's personal and professional journey across the world.

Eden's life has been a tough training ground. His mother was killed tragically when Eden was just 14. He was himself detained several times and experienced severe hardship at the hands of different regimes around the world, only for his pursuance of peace and justice.

He trained as a doctor specialising in preventive medicine and population mental health and later qualified as an individual and organisational coach. He travelled the world for nearly a decade with the UN and Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders).

As an aid worker and medical trainer, Eden lived in 31 countries, including North Korea (where he made a rare, undercover film about famine), borders of Iraq (where he rescued the international aid cargo seized by local authorities and helped Kurds displaced by Saddam's regime), Sierra Leone (where he managed an emergency vaccination campaign that saved many lives threatened by whooping cough), as well as borders of Afghanistan (where he witnessed atrocities of the Taliban) and Sudan (where he noticed the US led espionage using international NGOs – and left Sudan as a result).

He witnessed famine, war, brutality and natural disasters – and endured his own private challenge with emotional distress caused by his difficult life experiences, and witnessing sufferings of others. "I've learnt forgiveness and can honestly say I have nothing against people who tormented me," Eden says. "I want to use my work through Survive and Thrive to bring the people of the world closer together by forging cultural and educational links."

*there are now a number of other titles in the series and we would assume this will keep growing over time. The Survive and Thrive Series can be bought directly from the Survive and Thrive website: www.edengalaxy.com or through Amazon.co.uk
Ngo Netto(31st August 2009)