Supermarket Tabloid features the Stosny Boot Camp! - 8/06

Tue Aug 29 15:31:50 EDT 2006

- MAKING THE TABLOIDS!!
- DR STEVEN STOSNY CREATED THE HUSBAND BOOT CAMP TO SAVE MARRIAGES
- YOU CAN TEACH THE BOOT CAMPS: TRAINING OCT 13-15 IN MARYLAND
- ALL THIS, AND A FREE TELECOURSE, TOO.....

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- MAKING THE TABLOIDS!!

> Diane, 
> I made the grocery store tabloids. This week’s National Examiner has a piece
> on the Boot Camp.  They excerpted from a longer piece in Woman magazine of
> Great Briton. 
> Steven Stosny 

Wow, I was curious so had to see it.  Oprah, Farrah, Goldie and Nancy Reagan
are on the cover with a big green circle that says: "BOOT CAMP FOR HUSBANDS
- make him a better mate!"  Inside there's a photo of Dr Stosny holding up
his picture of lit up brains. This will probably reach more people with our
"you can learn marriage skills" than we can imagine!  - diane

Here's the article:
- DR STEVEN STOSNY CREATED THE HUSBAND BOOT CAMP TO SAVE MARRIAGES
September 4, 2006
National Examiner

HEY, wives, have you ever wished you could send your lovable slacker spouse
to obedience school?

Have you ever dreamed of shipping off the sloppy, forgetful, insensitive
couch potato for a few weeks and having him return as a combination of
Johnny Depp, Bobby Flay, Mr. Clean and that hunky handyman at Home Depot?

Just imagine your mate never leaving wet towels strewn around the bathroom,
never losing the Honey Do List, never going all weekend without shaving or
showering - and showing a lot more concern about your feelings, to boot.

Well, wish no more because boot camps for husbands are turning thousands of
frogs into princes.

In the hot new novel The School For Husbands (Plume), a man tries to save
his marriage by enrolling in a course that teaches him the manly arts of
being a good husband - including housework, child-rearing, listening,
emotional self-expression and toilet-seat etiquette.

Now life imitates author Wendy Holden's art. Since 2005, thousands of women
have hauled their husbands off to marital counseling boot camps like
psychologist Dr. Steven Stosny's CompassionPower programs.

His seminars have waiting lists a mile long, even with pricetags of $600 to
$2,000 a day. And Shelley Amaddeo, 49, swears Stosny's boot camp was worth
every penny after it saved her marriage and prevented a divorce that might
have scarred her pre-teen child.

"My husband Ed complained constantly about my cooking and cleaning," says
Shelley. "But he never helped out."

"He'd come home from work, eat dinner and just stare at TV. He didn't
interact with me or our 11-year-old daughter. I felt my love for him dying
because of his criticism and coldness, and I was considering leaving."

In Holden's novel, which is already a best seller in Great Britain, the
crisis comes when the workaholic husband doesn't come home one night,
provoking his wife to pack up their baby and move back in with her mother.
But when it came to Shelley's marriage, she stood her ground and delivered
an ultimatum - boot camp or divorce.

"He didn't want a divorce," says Shelley. "And he was willing to do whatever
was necessary to make our marriage work."

On the CompassionPower Web site, a participant says: "My husband says that
the boot camp was able to reach him in a way no one ever has before."

Stosny, who's based in Germantown, Md., compares his marriage retreats to
boot camps because husbands and wives must perform rigorous psychological
exercises that push them to the limit emotionally, much like military basic
training pushes recruits to the physical limit.

Stosny explains: "We focus on changing men's behavior because men are most
vulnerable to a loss of status and to feeling like a failure as a provider,
lover, protector and parent."

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- YOU CAN TEACH THE BOOT CAMP: TRAINING OCT 13-15 IN MARYLAND

Steven Stosny will offer the Boot Camp training for the first time at the
Smart Marriages Denver conference July 2 & 3, 2007. Or, you can come to
Gaithersburg, Maryland and take the training Oct. 13-15. Or, come for your
own marriage - make it better.  Or, refer a client.

"Stop Walking on Eggshells" Special weekend Treatment of Resentment, Anger,
or Emotional Abuse developed to meet the overwhelming requests for the boot
camp demonstrated on Oprah, this group version includes learning how to
replace resentment, anger, and jealousy with COMPASSIONATE NEGOTIATION plus
relapse prevention.

$595 per single person/$725 per couple (includes book, handouts, audio tape,
coffee, and snacks). Courtyard Marriott Gaithersburg, $79 per night.

For Info or to register: 301-921-2010 or http://www.compassionpower.com/

Refer individuals or couples with problems of resentment, anger or emotional
abuse, OR, attend to learn how to use this approach in your setting.

You can preview Stosny's work by listening to his highly-rated sessions at
the Atlanta Smart Marriages Conference - all of which were in the top ten -
a record for any one presenter. He is clearly onto something - has struck a
nerve, not just with Oprah, "O" Magazine, the New York Times, Psychology
Today. Etc etc - and now the National Examiner - but with the whole Smart
Marriages crowd.  Order these recordings at 800-241-7785:

> 756-405 
> You Don't Have to Take it Anymore
> Steven Stosny, PhD
> Learn how to use this approach in marriage ed settings to help overcome
> entrenched resentment, anger, verbal and emotional abuse BEFORE you try to
> teach communication skills.

> 756-702
> Power Love - MINI
> Steven Stosny, PhD
> Women maintain and nurture relationships, but men decide if, and when,
> they¹ll improve. In this male-friendly program, learn to engage men and
> teach scientifically-validated behaviors to improve marriage.

> 756-P5 - Keynote: You Don't Have To Take It Anymore! - on DVD, CD, MP3
> Steven Stosny, PhD
> Untreated resentment will eventually destroy a relationship leading to
> verbal aggression and frequently to violence, infidelity and/or divorce. Learn
> how to dissolve resentment by increasing core value.

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- ALL THIS, AND A FREE TELECOURSE, TOO.....

You Don't Have to Take It Anymore: A free telecourse on resentment, anger,
and emotional abuse with Steven Stosny, Sept 12, 8-9 Eastern. Info at
http://compassionpower.com.

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