CORINNE Coe is helping people to deal with mental anguish from the comfort of their own homes.
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The Cleveland psychologist and self-published author has penned a self-help book “Heal Your Mind, Heal Your Life”.
More than 55 copies have been sold since it was first printed in the weeks before Christmas, with Ms Coe (nee Mioche) soon to sell the book on Amazon and other online shopping sites.
The book is filled with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy techniques, which have been used by Ms Coe to treat patients throughout the past 19 years, including at her Bloomfield Street clinic.
The book is aimed at boosting the self-esteem of its readers, which Ms Coe said was vital to the recovery of those with depressive illnesses. She said people often formed perceptions of themselves based on inaccurate conclusions.
“A lot of people have a negative situation, emotionally react, and then after it is all finished they think it wasn’t as bad as what they thought it was,” she said. “But by then it has added to the database of what they believe in themselves.”
The book is divided into two parts – while the first of half the book is dedicated to CBT theory, the other is comprised of Do-It-Yourself exercises to help focus the reader to assess situations as they really are.
“A simple technique is to look at the evidence and to always look for the facts, rather than relying on what you feel or think,” Ms Coe said.
Ms Coe spent more than five years writing the book in between work commitments.
But the hard effort is worth it – Ms Coe, who is the first published author in her family, is delighted to be able to share her knowledge with others, she said.
“I want the book to make a difference and I think there is a need out there,” she said. “The book is all about strategies.”
Ms Coe said she had seen an increase in the number of patients seeking help for depressive illnesses throughout the past decade-and-a-half, which she attributed to rising public awareness of the need for help when depressed.
For more, visit corinnecoe.com.au.