Dream Journal: 60-day sleep, dream and wellbeing journal
This 60-Day Slumberland Dream Journal is for more than just dreaming, this journal is about wellbeing. Each section you can complete serves a purpose. You don’t have to fill each section in, as each section may not be relevant to you and your situation.
Gratitude – writing down what you have been grateful for and what you have to look forward to has been found to help reduce anxiety, worry and depression.
Compassionate Writing – writing down your thoughts and feelings about problems and how they impact on your life has been seen to help reduce worry, anxiety and depression.
Externalising and Problem-Solving Worries – writing down worries from the day and any solutions you may have, even if it is that you will do something, helps to close the pattern in your brain which reduces excessive dreaming, helping you to get more restful sleep.
As well as this additional wellbeing information that the journal can gather, you can also enter the time you went to bed, when you woke up, how many times you were awake during the night (if any) and record your dreams, what they may be related to, what you can learn from the dreams and whether they were lucid or not.
Sleepy Tales for Children: A Revolutionary way to help your children relax and sleep at night
Buy Now
Sleepy Tales for Children is a collection of 33 short stories written using various psychological principles and techniques to encourage restful sleep in your child. These stories present a revolutionary approach to helping children sleep at night, developed by the author, Dan Jones, during the early 2000’s to help distressed and troubled children and teens to settle at night in children’s homes.
The bedtime tales in this book are written to be read to 4-7 year olds, although the approach works with children of all ages. This book consists of 11 stories previously released in the book Sleepy Bedtime Tales, 11 stories previously released in the book Relaxing Tales for Children, and 11 new, previously unreleased bedtime stories for children.
As well as bedtime stories, this book offers other ideas about how to help children to settle at night and tips around developing healthy bedtime routines for children.
The stories in this book are written without pictures throughout the stories, because pictures can distract the child, encouraging them to want to see what is on each page as the pages are turned, which can stop them focusing on the story and falling asleep.
The font used in this book has been chosen to be easier to read under low light and by children perhaps of a reading age of about 6 or 7 years old who may be interested in reading the stories for themselves.
Look Into My Eyes: Autism, Hypnosis & Me
Autism autobiography Look Into My Eyes is a bestselling biography by autistic individual and autism and family support professional Dan Jones. It is an absorbing and fascinating autobiography that offers rare insight into the workings of the autistic mind. Using illuminating anecdotes that are both inspirational and informative Dan takes the reader on a chronological journey of discovery from early signs he was autistic as a baby and toddler through to what it was like to be an autistic teen and adult and his impact on his parents, family and others around him, finally ending with a chapter by his wife about life being married to an autistic individual.
Through brutal, and at times, shocking, honesty Dan exposes a deeper explanation of autistic behaviours that can at times appear mystifying or extreme and what can be done to help the autistic person cope with challenges they face while nurturing their strengths. He shares the mental processes he goes through to handle social and new situations, the difficulty he has handling sudden change, and the obsession he has to learn how to fit in and understand others.
Dan shares his thoughts and experiences across a wide range of topics including; his love of nature and being underwater, social interactions, quest for knowledge, panic, anxiety and depression, discrimination, role-models, challenges and strengths of being autistic, employment, and school.
This third edition has been written to remove the word ‘Asperger’s’ from the title and book contents, due to the negative history of the term and the fact that it isn’t used as a diagnostic term now.
Look Into My Eyes has been described by readers as:
“Inspirational and informative”
“Brutally honest… shocking… I think everyone should read it”
“This is a fascinating book…A rare gift for anyone interested in the subject”
“Wonderful insight…like viewing the world through his (Dan’s) eyes…allowed me to not only identify my own challenges with AS but also my son’s way in the world”
“I could not put it down…I kept thinking ‘this is like…reading about our life’…I would highly recommend reading it”
“The raw detail of daily life for Dan Jones with Asperger’s is detailed so finely that it takes you into Dan’s world and into his head. It opens up the world of everyone with Asperger’s and will hopefully prove a turning point for those either struggling with the condition themselves or parents and friends of ‘Aspies’.”
“This is a book of great positives”
“Deep and insightful”
“A must read for all and a definite for anyone wanting an understanding of autistic spectrum conditions and those seeking tips and guidance into how to support family or friends who display the traits of autistic spectrum conditions.”
“A fascinating view of life as a toddler, troubled teen and awkward adult living with Aspergers”
As well as being autistic Dan Jones has also spent much of his working career supporting autistic individuals, their families, friends, teachers, employers, and other involved professionals. Throughout the book Dan shares his professional knowledge around what can be done to help the autistic individual from seeking diagnosis through to social skills and handling situations, as well as his personal experiences.
An Autistic Perspective: Working with Autistic Clients in Counselling & Psychotherapy
This is a short, easy-to-read book, part of the An Autistic Perspective series, sharing how to work with diagnosed and undiagnosed autistic clients in counselling, psychotherapy or coaching.
About 1 in 68 people are autistic. Many autistic adults are undiagnosed and may not even realise they could be autistic. Any counsellor, psychotherapist or coach in full-time practice will encounter diagnosed and undiagnosed autistic clients, so it is important to know how you can best help them and tailor your support to their needs.
In this book on Working With Autistic Clients in Counselling and Psychotherapy I share the different challenges and traits autistic people have and how these can manifest and impact on the problem the client is presenting with and on the therapy and how you can work with the client and present your therapy to get the best results.
You will also have an idea of the kinds of things which clients may say and do that could lead to you as a therapist to feel that the client could be autistic. This isn’t a book teaching you how to do therapy or coaching, the expectation is that you are already trained to do therapy or coaching if you are working as a therapist or coach, it also doesn’t teach you how to ‘cure’ autism as autism can’t be cured.
This book teaches you about the traits, challenges and strengths of autistic clients and how the client being autistic can impact on their life and on how they respond in therapy, hopefully helping you understanding autistic clients better and have ideas and insights for how you can best help them.
An Autistic Perspective: Tips for Autistic Individuals & Others in Their Lives
This is a short, easy-to-read book, part of the An Autistic Perspective series. This book on Tips for Autistic Individuals & Others in Their Lives, focuses on offering helpful tips specifically for fellow autistic people, both diagnosed and undiagnosed and those in the life of the autistic individuals, like friends, partners and employers.
Areas covered in this book for autistic individuals include:
- Tips and strategies for how to calm your emotions
- Developing social communication skills
- Finding and keeping friends
- Understanding how others think and feel
- Tackling bullying and discrimination
- Dating and relationships
- Managing shopping and restaurants
- Navigating the challenges of public transport
- Interview skills, knowledge and tips
Additional areas covered in this book include:
- Friends with autistic individuals
- In a romantic relationship with an autistic individual
- Work colleagues of autistic individuals
- Employers of autistic individuals
My hope is that this book is as helpful as possible for autistic people as well as supporting those around them in best interacting and understanding their autistic friend, partner, colleague or employee.
An Autistic Perspective: Parenting Autistic Children & Teens
This is a short, easy-to-read book, part of the An Autistic Perspective series. This book on Parenting Autistic Children and Teens draws on my extensive knowledge of supporting thousands of families, as well as my personal experiences of being autistic, to help the reader to best support their autistic child or teen.
I write in a matter-of-fact way and sometimes say things some people don’t want to hear. However, if the reader engages with the content then they will be in a much stronger position to help their child or teen with challenges they may be facing.
I cover various areas including:
- Helping the autistic child or teen to relax and keep calm
- Supporting the development of your child or teen’s social skills
- The importance of routines, consistency, boundaries and consequences
- Supporting the autistic child or teen if they are experiencing discrimination or bullying
- The benefits of a collaborative communication approach
- How to get an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis for your child or teen
- Tips for teaching autistic children and teens
My hope is that what I share in this book is as helpful as possible to parents and carers of autistic children and teens, whether diagnosed or undiagnosed, offering a wide selection of practical tips and strategies that the reader can implement.
An Autistic Perspective: Death, Dying & Loss
This is a short, easy-to-read book, part of the An Autistic Perspective series, sharing how death, dying and loss are experienced from the perspective of someone autistic. I share observable behaviours and the thinking behind these behaviours and what you can do to support the autistic individual.
It is important to note that I am writing about my own autistic perspective and drawing on my professional experiences with other autistic individuals, but this perspective won’t be shared by all autistic people. There will be similarities that most autistic people will share based on traits we have, but how these present themselves from person to person will differ.
I share an autistic perspective around relationship breakups, life transitions, my experiences around death and the positive and negative aspects of my way of being in relation to those who are dying.
I also break down the triad of impairments which is an easy way to look at the areas autistic traits fall into for diagnosis and additional needsthat many autistic people have, sharing what you can od to help the autistic person to manage loss, dying and death.
My hope is that by going into detail in an honest and frank way, this will help to give insight into the autistic mind and how my mind processes these areas of life, to help the reader understand how autistic people can process these topics. Throughout the chapters I share various tips and ideas to try to make this short book as helpful as possible.
Hypnotherapy Revealed: Introduction to Hypnotherapy
The way I like to teach people is from the deepest level up, rather than the surface level down. My experience is that most hypnotherapy courses and books teach the surface level information first and many never touch on the deeper nature of things. They will often give you an explanation of what hypnosis is, perhaps some history of hypnosis, and then they will teach you some techniques for doing hypnosis. When you understand the deeper nature of trance and pattern-matching and the different ways hypnosis can be evoked you don’t need to have structured inductions or techniques for doing hypnosis: you can create your own ways of eliciting hypnotic responses in people in a client-centred way that is unique to each person you work with.
This first volume will teach you the history of hypnosis, various theories of hypnosis including what I think hypnosis is, it will teach you different ways hypnosis can be evoked and deepened and will teach you how you can use self-hypnosis for yourself and why it can be helpful to teach clients self-hypnosis. You will also learn a selection of structured inductions, hypno-therapeutic techniques, how to carry changes from within therapy sessions into clients lives and how hypnosis fits into therapy because there is a misconception that hypnotherapy is somehow different from other psychological therapies when in-fact hypnotherapy is just some form of therapy done with hypnosis as an adjunct to that therapy, hypnosis itself isn’t a therapy.This book on an introduction to hypnotherapy is the first in a planned series of ten volumes about hypnotherapy.
You will also learn about the trance nature of reality, about the pattern matching brain and about responsivity.
Hypnotherapy Revealed: The Ericksonian Approach
This book will teach you my perspective of the Ericksonian approach to hypnosis and therapy. It will demonstrate the simplicity that I believe underlies the Ericksonian approach and will teach Ericksonian hypnotic language patterns in a simple and easy to learn and understand way.
In this book I share the skills to use so that you can take the knowledge you have from book one in the Hypnotherapy Revealed series about hypnosis, pattern-matching and the trance nature of reality and use this therapeutically with clients. The knowledge you will gain from this book can be mastered allowing you to be able to confidently hypnotise and therapeutically work with almost anyone using the approach that is right for them as an individual. You will be able to do what I think of as client-centred hypnotherapy.
Learn the fundamental principles of the Ericksonian approach, hypnotic language patterns, paradoxical interventions and how to craft healing stories.
Hypnotherapy Revealed: Hypnotherapy Trance Scripts
This 3rd book in the Hypnotherapy Revealed series, Hypnotherapy Trance Scripts was previously released as ‘Advanced Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Scripts’. This new and expanded 3rd edition contains 50% more content than the 2nd edition, with additional hypnotic inductions and updated therapeutic hypnosis scripts including information about the evidence for the use of hypnosis in the treatment of many of the conditions covered in this Hypnotherapy Trance Scripts book. This Hypnotherapy Trance Scripts book has been written to be as helpful as possible, there is information to help you understand the scripts, an introduction to Ericksonian hypnotic language and techniques being used, and an overview of how to do hypnotherapy, and how to hold hypnotherapy sessions. There are 88 hypnotic induction scripts, deepeners and scripts to help people stop smoking, lose weight, lift depression, calm anxiety, sooth pain, increase performance enhancement, tackle insomnia, and much more. . . This all round package makes this book a valuable resource for anyone wanting to learn more about Ericksonian hypnosis and therapy. Hypnotherapists in training can also read and analyse the scripts and study the language, structure and multi-level communication used to further their skill and knowledge.
Unlocking the Superpower Within: FourGame Dynamics Coaching & Personal Development
“Unlock Your Full Potential with FourGames Coaching & Personal Development”
Unlocking the Superpower Within is not just any coaching and personal development book, it’s a comprehensive guide that will take you on a transformational journey to discover and unleash the hidden potential within you and others. Based on the innovative FourGames approach developed by Jamie Combs, this book offers a powerful toolkit for personal growth and transformation.
Through a series of thought-provoking chapters and engaging exercises, you will learn how to tap into your innate abilities, you will uncover the FourGames of Genius approach to unlocking the genius strategies of others, discover how to enhance your communication skills and improve your emotional intelligence to unlocking your creative potential, tapping into your intuition and working with ideo-dynamics and temporal reprocessing. The FourGames approach will equip you with the tools and techniques you need to achieve your full potential in life and help others achieve theirs.
Whether you are looking to enhance your leadership or coaching skills, improve your relationships, or simply achieve greater fulfillment, happiness or wellbeing in life, this book has something for you. With step-by-step guidance and practical tips, Unlocking the Superpower Within will empower you to help yourself and others break free from limiting beliefs, overcome obstacles, and achieve your dreams.
Written by psychological therapist and trance-formation coach Dan Jones, this book provides a comprehensive and holistic approach to personal growth and transformation.
