Tessina, provides a road map Review by Trish Riley

Independent Journalist Tina Tessina, PhD, provides a road map for those who are ready to face and change the patterns that prevent happiness and fulfillment in their lives. It Ends With You, Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction, is a self-help tome that makes relatively quick work of years of therapy that some endure on an expensive couch. Like a fruitful meditation, It Ends With You is a guided visualization through one's past history and into a healthier future. Tessina understands that each of us is in charge of our own mental health, and helps readers find the reigns to take control of their happiness and their lives. "The task for all of us is to rise above the issues and wounds of childhood," writes Tessina. "Becoming truly adult, autonomous, able to govern ourselves and our responses to those around us." Tessina takes readers on a journey that examines family patterns that persist for generations, mapping the positive and negative trends to help recognize the habits we've unconsciously brought into our own lives from childhood. She helps us recognize negative habits of thinking and behavior and replace them with positive routines that lead to healthier outcomes. She calls it "recreating yourself." Tessina uses the weather to help readers identify and understand emotions – comparing sadness to a rainstorm, happiness to a clear, sunny day. She equips readers with the skills to be their own life coaches. "Ultimately it is you who must do the changing," Tara Solomon, Advice Diva of the Miami Herald advised a reader recently. "When you start believing that you have the ability to change the course of your life, including your relationships with men – no matter what you have been through – you will." But Tessina also offers guidance on selecting a therapist if the going gets too rough to manage on one's own, and tips to realizing when it's time for help. One way or another, Tessina helps readers put dysfunctional family habits in cold storage, for good

Because as Solomon says, "Don't you want to be happy?"