This is a review of the CD set "Emotional Freedom," with Judith Orloff, MD

Dr. Judith Orloff is a holistic psychiatrist who focuses on teaching people psychospiritual approaches to handling psychological challenges.  In her 2-CD set Emotional Freedom, Dr. Orloff shares exercises to help transform emotions such as fear, anxiety, frustration, and loneliness.  Activating qualities such as courage, self-esteem, connection, and patience, Orloff guides the listener to begin to experience things in a different way.  The guidance includes a variety of cues to help the listener relate their emotions to where they are processed in the body.  There are many good insights here to build self-awareness and develop skills to process emotions in constructive ways.  One thing that I found missing here was more input about how belief-structures underlying emotional patterns may be addressed.  The approach Orloff shares may slowly help a person shift from negative thinking to positive thinking, but there are sometimes ways to foster a more rapid shift.  Overall, I found this CD set to be helpful.  As a holistic counselor and healer I find Dr. Orloff's approaches to be useful and would encourage those seeking to overcome emotional challenges to consider this recording as a potential tool to help them.  Self-help books and audios can be beneficial, while it is also quite valuable to have an experienced therapist/counselor/coach available to help you address emotional challenges in an individualized manner.

Jed Shlackman, LMHC, C.Ht.
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