Acclimatic Restorative Coaching: Solving Media Overload: a Guide for Therapists, Coaches, Peer Specialists, and Everyone Else! - Paperback

by Cindy Jill North Lcsw (Foreword by), Louie Cruz (Author)

Have you ever felt so "stuck in a rut" or emotionally drained that you were certain you'd never recover? Then one day, someone special came along whose understanding and words were so healing and transformative that your life changed forever.

That is the power of Acclimatic Restorative Coaching (ARC)!

This book can teach you to become one such healer!

Overexposure to information has become the anthem of the 21st Century, and mental-health workers are scrambling to catch up. If the information overconsumed is traumatizing it can be problematic because the human brain cannot always determine the differences between real environments and Information Environments. It can cause people to lose touch with their happiness, love, and values, and adopt survival responses like depression, anxiety, and even violence. Worse yet, such people may not even know that their Information Environments were to blame. The riots of 2020 and 2021 are just two examples!

ARC is a solution! It is the world's first evidence-based talk-therapy/ coaching technique ever designed from inside the news media looking out, rather than the outside looking in. It was made by a TV-news insider turned mental-health consultant.

Tired of the craziness? Welcome to the change!

About the Author:
Louie Cruz is a veteran of the United States Air Force who was deployed to the Middle East in the 1990s. While there, he witnessed a Middle Eastern nation weaponizing information against its own people, and saw the negative impact it had on society.

After military service, Cruz enjoyed a profitable career in TV news where he remained for 23 years. But his career ended when he unwittingly landed at a station that weaponized information to boost ratings. Upon receiving a diagnosis of PTSD, Cruz fought behind the scenes to make the content safer for viewers, he dove headfirst into the field of mental health, quit TV news, and then created Acclimatic Restorative Coaching.

This book will give you a healthy head start on what it means to be a 21st Century healer. You'll learn about how the brain works, how information is commonly structured by media outlets, clinical techniques every helping professional should know, and finally how Acclimatic Restorative Coaching is designed to help others.