Monster Relationships: Taming the Beasts that are Killing Your Relationships
by Rod Louden., MA., MFT
Price: $14.95
233 Pages, Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN-10: 0-9765902-0-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-9765902-0-0
Monster Relationships: Taming the Beasts that are Killing Your Relationships is a journey - not the type of fun and fabulous travel during which you get on an airplane and fly away to some exotic land. Rather, it’s a quest to acquire new knowledge about yourself, knowledge that can be used to defeat the problems that are killing your relationships. The author, Rod Louden, takes you on a wonderful journey through your personal belief system. At the same time, Rod will arm you with “weapons” and tools that you’ll use to defeat the tyrannical beasts that are keeping you in the bondage of relationship hell. Self help books fill the shelves. What sets Monster Relationships apart from the rest is that it combines colorful and insightful tales from Rod’s own journey of personal change, with the theories and techniques that he uses as a licensed marriage and family therapist to empower clients. This distinct blend creates an enjoyable, insightful, and enlightening read. In the end, you’ll have the knowledge to forge a new and reliable Roadmap, one that you’ll follow, as you strive to create relationship bliss.
About The Author
Rod Louden is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Woodland Hills, California. He is married and has one child. Rod is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology. Rod received his Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in Los Angeles. Rod also holds a vocational degree in music from the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California.
In addition to running a private practice, Rod is a therapist at the Child Sexual Abuse Program in Van Nuys, California and a Supervising Children’s Social Worker for the Department of Children and Family Services for Los Angles County, where he has been on the front line for nine years. Rod is also a professional mediator, skilled composer and musician, professional chef, French pastry chef, tournament Texas Hold’em player, craftsman, athlete, and red belt in tae kwon do. Rod’s wide range of life experiences has led him to be called a modern day "Renaissance Man.”
Rod considers his array of life experiences to be a therapeutic asset, allowing him to have insight into and direct experience with understanding and bringing forth solutions to a multitude of life stressors/problems. Daily, through his work as a therapist, social worker, author, and mediator, Rod helps people defeat the problems that are wreaking havoc in their lives.
Reviews
“Monster Relationships: Taming the Beasts that are Killing Your Relationships is inspiring and provocative. It makes you think! You are encouraged to visit places in your psyche that will test your commitment to yourself, and to your growth as a person. It doesn't promise you a magic wan: instead, it shows you ways to achieve positive life changes that will help you create loving and lasting relationships.”
—Birgitta Gregory, Ph.D., Life Coach and Teacher
Author, Get Your Relationships Right: Inside and Out
“Once I started reading Monster Relationships, I couldn't put it down. It led me to the answers that I had been searching for about myself — answers that two years of therapy had failed to produce. It was an incredible weekend of therapy that touched my heart and soul.”
—Deborah Green, Executive Assistant
“Monster Relationships is a unique and imaginative book for anyone who has ever wondered why they have experienced so many failed relationships. It is also a rare opportunity to understand relationship counseling from the perspective of how Rod Louden would work in a therapeutic setting as your relationship Tour Guide. So, what are you waiting for? — it doesn't get any easier than this.”
—Richard Greene, Psy.D., Marriage and Family Therapist
Director, Abuse Prevention Associates
“Monster Relationships blew me away! I've read Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, and other self-enlightenment books in an attempt to improve my life journey. While I enjoyed these writers, Rod Louden took it to an entirely new level. He took me on an amazing journey across what he calls the ‘Emotional Desert.’ Along the way, Mr. Louden gave me easy to understand metaphors, and helped me to focus on how to make positive changes in my life. I realized that the journey which he asked me to take with him was one that I was already on, but did not know how to put into words.”
—Stephen Gomez, Youth Guidance Counselor
