cover image Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing: The Last Self-Help Book You Will Ever Need

Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing: The Last Self-Help Book You Will Ever Need

Gloria Arenson. Fireside Books, $14 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-1387-5

For those scared off by the seemingly endless self-help road and amenable to New Age philosophy, Gloria Arenson, a psychologist specializing in energy and power therapies, presents Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing: The Last Self-Help Book You Will Ever Need. Arenson practices and ardently recommends Meridian Therapy, a technique stemming from acupressure that allows people to decrease their levels of stress without professional help. By tapping on eight different spots on their bodies, practitioners can alleviate anxiety, the impacts of trauma, compulsive behaviors and any number of other difficulties. (Dec.)