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Confidence: The Path to Freedom. A podcast with Sheenah Hankin, Ph.D

Sheena Hankin, Ph.D

According to Dr. Hankin, confident people react positively and successfully to life's problems and challenges. Those who lack confidence often view themselves as victims - blaming others or binging on drugs, sex, food, or alcohol to mask their feelings of shame or worthlessness. Her book, first published in 2005, has been revised and updated for 2008, and is published by Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins. Sheenah is one of New York's most popular psychotherapists. She practices Cognitive Appraisal Therapy, an approach she developed with her husband, Dr. Richard Wessler. Sheenah has conducted numerous workshops in North America and Europe. Based on her expertise and experience in helping people to turn around their careers and businesses, she has recently begun to offer courses for the public based on her book Complete Confidence.

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Questions Peter Clayton Asked Sheenah:

• What’s new about confidence? Why the revised edition of your book?
• You’re a shrink based in NYC, and you compare you job to that of a NY taxi cab driver. Can you explain this?
• Yours is the first book I’ve seen which asks the reader to sign a contract which stipulates, among other things, that the reader will indeed, read the entire book, from cover to cover. Why?
• Why did you write Complete Confidence?
• You write “the majority of depressed people have emotional immaturity.” Can you explain?
• Sheenah, do you ever procrastinate?
• People who lack confidence are self-centered?
• I want to talk about the old, fat, stupid, loser syndrome, because I think everyone at one time or another has put themselves in at least one of these categories. I score on all five. How do you break out?
• The infomercial business can be broken down into weight-loss, wrinkle loss, or get rich in real estate.
• I want to discuss age - there is definitely a grey ceiling out there - in the workplace and in the media. the only lifestyle magazine you’ll find with someone over fifty on the cover is AARP. The media and the advertisers are again’ us Sheenah - unless they’re marketing ED or prostate drugs. -- Tell us about Bob, the 58 year old who came to see you.
• So how do you go from the losing hand to the winning hand?
• What are the elements of complete confidence?

In Complete Confidence, renowned psychotherapist Dr. Sheenah Hankin points the way to a confident life free of self-criticism, anxiety, and immature anger. Her Winning Hand of Comfort technique is a clear, concise, and powerful prescription for dealing with everyday situations - from resolving conflicts to ending unhealthy habits like overeating, complaining, and procrastinating. This essential handbook will teach you how to retrain your brain to manage your emotions and put your problems into perspective. You will learn how to calm down, clarify your thinking, challenge your blame habit, comfort your negative feelings, and achieve confidence. That is Dr. Hankin’s promise.

Sheenah Hankin Bio

Sheenah is one of New York’s most popular psychotherapists. She practices Cognitive Appraisal Therapy, an approach she developed with her husband, Dr. Richard Wessler. The tenets of this cutting edge system for dealing with difficult people were described in their book Succeeding with Difficult Clients (Academic Press), and in many other articles in books and journals for their profession. Sheenah has conducted numerous workshops in North America and Europe. Based on her expertise and experience in helping people to turn around their careers and businesses, she has recently begun to offer courses for the public based on her book Complete Confidence.

Born in England and now a proud American citizen, Sheenah received her graduate diploma in counseling from Aston University in Birmingham, and a Ph.D. from International University. She is a member of both the American Counseling Association and the Mental Health Counselors Association, and is listed in Who's Who in America. She is the author of the final chapter in Howard Stern’s best-selling Private Parts, in which she profiles his controversial personality. Sheenah has contributed to magazines: Allure, Elle, Mademoiselle, Marie Clare, New York, Self, Vogue, Redbook, Cosmo, Real Simple, Details, GQ, More, Ms, Womens’ World, and New York magazine; and in newspapers: New York Times, Daily News, Newsday, New York Post, and in the U.K., Daily Express Magazine and Daily Telegraph. Newsweek complemented her for her practical "get over it" advice. Sheenah has been featured on Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show,ABC’s 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, Maury, The O’Reilly Factor , NBC Today , and on Court TV, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Network, plus British, French and Russian television. She is a member of AFTRA.

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