Book Description

BLOCKED? Get Un-blocked-Now! by James A. Fragale - Several decades back, during a therapy session, a psychiatrist said to Nino Pino, "You're blocked. What's holding you back...what's standing in your way?" Gulp. Insulted and chagrined, at that moment, he began a long and agonizing journey. Over the next twenty years, he looked back. Examined. Questioned everything... and all along, all the while, filled page after page after page with notes...in dozens and dozens of various-sized, different-colored notebooks, that eventually teemed with his findings and feelings. In the last two years, he compiled his data into one enterprise. Now, in an original form, he passes that undertaking on to you: his answers, anecdotes, anathemas, quotes, paraphrases, discoveries, revelations, his work on that "sick syndrome of being stuck," blocked! All that, in a novel format. Lighting the light... The author follows up each finding with full, detailed insight on each source-further enlightening you, the reader, who is never in the dark as to who just spoke to you.Throughout the book, alter ego Nino Pino has provided easy-to-understand guidelines you can try on for size; to see how the block actually fits you: your hold back in a chokehold; on a paradigm, in a schematic, diagram, framework---your specific block. Then, you'll have a chance to see how they fit; to view the blocks for what they are; and then you will be able to come up with solutions...truths that will ("shall") set you free of them.In the background of all this, there's music...beautiful melodies swirling around. The author, a popular song aficionado of the beloved American Popular Standard Songbook conjures up nostalgic, uplifting lyrics you know and love. You'll find yourself whistling and humming along and having a better day. And, for music mavens there's something extra: insider tidbits on many of the familiar tunes.... And more? The author and his alter ego are in their finest form when reminiscing about their big Italian American family's tense and tender moments growing up in a coalmining/glass factory town in Northern West Virginia. On every page of this delightful, insightful, bright-full-of-light journey, there is something you'll want to remember and/or underline and even take with you. Yes, you can and will pocket useful, practical, workable solutions on being blocked, stuck-for you are now armed with new tools on how to get and stay unblocked.