Empowerment Therapy

"In his book FROM EMPTINESS TO EMPOWERMENT, Brian J. Hubbard draws on his numerous contacts, own experiences and extensive training to write a wonderful book that will help many people, whether or not they consider themselves as having a disability. It clearly delineates the empowering steps that people can take to take charge of their life, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, and truly become "king of their own mountain."

Even though I consider myself quite successful in challenging my own severe hearing loss in becoming a physician as well as a professor of family medicine, I without a doubt have found this invaluable book not only to be very practical with its clear easy to understand empowering steps to reaching my fullest potential, but also to be highly inspirational as well.

Brian Hubbard's sharing of his personal experiences of successfully confronting two devastating challenges - blindness and profound deafness - to go on to become a very successful Clinical Social Worker and therapist as well as a leader in the psychosocial field of the disabled and the chronically medically ill ( he was the founder of the nation's first program to provide professional to the disabled and chronically ill on a community-based level as well as the Father of EMPOWERMENT THERAPY, a new therapy approach for other professionals ), leaves the readers feeling, whatever their challenges, that they are definitely not alone, but, rather, someone is in their corner who truly understands not only the struggle, but what it really takes to rise above these struggles.

Whether your challenge has been a physical loss, or any loss of heart wrenching emotional significance, you know how difficult its impact has been on you. Go ahead and treat yourself to a copy of FROM EMPTINESS TO EMPOWERMENT. I recommend it heartily, as the book has the potential to significantly improve your life. It will make you feel like life is not only worth living but also worth crowing about.

Phillip Zazove, MD, University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine
and Author WHEN THE PHONE RINGS, MY BED SHAKES