We had a packed house from around the planet! People from Canada, Australia, Great Britain and many others from various corners of the US joined us in our Author Interview/Book Tour launch last evening. Audio recordings will soon be available for all participants, and for others, at a very modest $7.95

If you were not there, you missed a superb delivery of much exciting research about how to parent teens in today's world, with multiple forms of technology appended to them….

Best of all, Dr. Rosen has agreed to come teach a 6-hour workshop, again by telephone and Internet. That makes it an "teleworkshop'. Details can be found at our new sister-website, TeleWorkshops.com

Dates: October 8, 15, and 22 for 2-hours per evening, Wednesdays

Times will be from 6 - 8 p.m., Pacific time, or

9 - 11 p.m. Eastern time.

Fees include last evening's audio recording, a copy of Dr. Rosen's book chapter and of course, the 6 hours of TeleWorkshop participation!! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit with your children and teens, all in one room, and listen to a renown psychologist talk about the issues that every family faces, and how to resolve them. If exposure to Dr. Rosen doesn't get them talking to you, nothing will! Have your kids and other adults join you, all for the same low price of $59 per household!

Sign up here to get this time-limited price discount. 100% Money Back Guarantee! You will be satisfied

Dr. Marlene

As you probably know, the best selling author of Me, MySpace and I will be speaking with you, our SHM readers, next week on Wednesday at 6PM Pacific time. He is accepting questions for review now, and will be answering the most frequently asked questions on the call.

Get your question(s) in now by sending them here. You privacy is guaranteed, and we will take all questions seriously. Then just attend the call next week, keep a pad and pen by the phone, sit back and get some fresh ideas from the expert!

Invite your teen to listen with you. Invite your teen's friends to come over and listen too! Why not? It's FREE! Just pay the price of your call to our number. Sign up for all details, as well as get access to a full chapter of Dr. Rosen's book for free by registering at the bottom of this page.

Dr. Marlene

We are preparing for an eye-and-ear-opening hour with Dr. Rosen! Remember how I told you that we're having a book tour on August 13 with Dr. Rosen? Well, now you'll be able to hear him on High Definition telephone lines, both from the United States and Canada.

We were just notified that we have successfully acquired the new HiDef telephone service today. So you'll be able to hear him more clearly than you do your own family members when you telephone us on August 13, (remember, it's at 6PM, Pacific, 9PM Eastern time).

Who is he? Take a minute to get a good look at Dr. Rosen's credentials, and while you're at it, sign up for our SHM Book Tour reminders by filling out the form at the bottom of this bio page we created for him here at SelfhelpMagazine. When you register, you'll be given FREE ACCESS to the entire second chapter of his book, the chapter that gives you the low-down about the chart that shows WHY parent's are having more difficulty THAN EVER with their teens. If you haven't seen that yet, look here.

Here's the Dr. with the answers! Join us. This hour could change your relationship with your teen(s) forever. Seriously.

We have a date!!

Dr. Larry Rosen is giving a FREE Book Tour, based on his run-away-best-selling book, Me, MySpace & I! Get this: the entire first printing was SOLD OUT in the first month after release!

Dr. Rosen has now agreed to speak to SelfhelpMagazine readers, that's YOU, on August 13 at 6PM, Pacific time. Mark your calendar right now!! Sign up at the bottom of this page.

If you are worried about how to best communicate with your teen, be available for the call on August 13th! If you have a TELEPHONE, you can hear it all!

Sign up for our reminder list at the end of this page.

Ask your questions NOW so he can address them during the call. Ask them here.

Dr. Marlene

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I'm one of the regulars who posts in the Community Forum and just want to add to Dr. Maheu's post about paying it forward by saying that there's another way that people can pay it forward. They can come and post and have the courage to keep coming back without waiting for an answer before saying more.

The people who are most successful here are the ones who keep telling us what's going on. People get answers as others wander in and out, and write back. People always answer, but maybe not on your timeline. So why wait?

Those who keep posting end up with a whole diary of their own thoughts to look at, in additon to comments from other people.

It's all anonymous so no one will ver know who you are, and it's FREE support! What's to lose? Do it now.

Here are few suggestions to get you money's in our Forums. What… our Forums are free? Oh, right! Well, here's how to get the most out of the time you spend here, and have some fun, too.

1. Pay it forward. You know: give before you get. Before people will take the time to read and answer you, you've got to show them you are worth their time and energy.

If you're mature enough to give before expecting something of value back, you'll find some of the brightest, most generous and helpful people in these forums.

2. Next, search the archives using keywords related to the question you have in your mind (or heart) when you come to SelfhelpMagazine. Look for search box in upper right hand corner of every page.

Ignore the dates you see in those archives. People have lived with the same sort of issues and problems and pains since the dawn of humanity. The issue you have today might be similar enough to an issue someone else discussed three years ago that their discussion will show you new perspectives, help you see things you aren't seeing now. Start reading other people's questions and their answers. You'll be amazed at what you see, I promise.

3. Once you find a prior question or comment that is similar to yours, type something, even if it's an older discussion. Agree or disagree, or state your case in your way, or offer a solution that you've learned about some aspect of what is being said. Write something - anything that is honest and sincere, not silly.

4. Ask somethign specific and give enough detail for people to understand your situation. Let people get to know you, and want to give back to you later. Vague questions often get no answers.

5. Take advantage of being able to make up your name. Call yourself someone you admire, or some characteristic you want to be, or an emotion that typifies your mood right now. That's telling people something important about you, without mentioning your name and possibly compromising your identity. No one will ever know who you are, so let it rip.

6. If you've read anything about your issue in our SelfhelpMagazine or other online resources, mention what you read and what you think about it. Link to the page that inspires you, either in another website or this one. Links help other people glimpse into your thinking.

7. Make yourself vulnerable right from the start. Admit your character defects. Name the ways in which you know you messed up. Give details of how you sabotage yourself. People will sit up and take notice of your courage, and guaranteed, you will get more responses than if you blame everything on your boss, or husband, or therapist.

And here's the biggest secret of them all - it's by being vulnerable that you will have real conversations with real people who will take the time to help you think things through. Some of those people are in our forums right now, waiting for someone like you to come and talk.

Go try it - right now! Go here: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/phorum/index.php

And please do come back to let me know how it worked.

I'll be back soon with more pointers for you another day:)

Dr. Maheu