Professional and
Self-Help Books

"This compelling and potent book not only illuminates exactly how emotions shape your choices for better and for worse, it also helps you tap the power of infinite games to play your way to being the best version of yourself in any moment. Dr. West takes the reader through a state of the art evidence-based skills training to harness choice points by decoding emotions, overriding unhelpful defaults, rewiring unhelpful patterns and making values-based moves—even in the face of intense stress, challenge and pain. Reflections and experiential learning opportunities throughout the book help you lock in the learning and level up. By increasing your emotional efficacy you’ll learn to become the hero of your own story, transforming what’s possible for you and the future you’re living into. "

"Grounded in scientific research, Dr. Aprilia West delivers an engaging, practical and powerful skills training based on a transformative idea:: when people break the trance of emotional reactivity they become more resilient, psychologically flexible and emotionally intelligent. This is an extremely well-considered, conceptualized, and accessible book. Highly recommended."

"Dr. West offers a brief, structured, highly practical emotion efficacy skills training, integrating the latest evidence-based practices of mindfulness, acceptance, and emotion processing strategies in a masterful way. The examples, reflections, and client dialogues really make the concepts come alive. And the experiential practice will help people learn and retain these important skills for wellbeing and performance. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants a more powerful relationship with their emotions."

"Regardless of whether you are well-versed in writings on emotional intelligence and agility, mindfulness, and coping with stress and adversity, you must understand how enjoyable and useful this book is. Aprilia isn't like other folks. She has a gift for illuminating complex evidence-based ideas through memorable examples and stories. She offers powerful questions and experiential exercises that will enhance your life. If everyone wrote with this level of clarity and poignancy the world would be a healthier place."

"Dr. West begins her book, What You Feel Is Not All There Is, with truly essential words: Your Life as Moments of Choice. The beauty of her work and dedication to making healthy change for all who explore this book unfolds from its opening. The reader is invited to take a journey of purpose, guided by fundamental elements for living well. The skills include tuning into the moment, cultivating curiosity, leaning into discomfort, and connecting to values-- creating vitality. This is a must-read book for those wishing to find every moment a moment of choice linked to meaning. What You Feel is Not All There Is will be a permanent fixture in my office and a wholly recommended book for clients and friends. Thank you, April, for writing this beautiful work to help others heal."

"In this indispensable guide on authentically choosing your emotional adventures, Dr. West distills decades of clinical experience into a compendium filled with wisdom. Using step-by-step experiential practices, you can move toward your innermost interests, desires and yearnings in order to step fully into your power, freedom, hope and selfhood. This book will be a treasured volume in my personal and professional library."

"Dr. Aprilia West writes in a way that seamlessly blends pop culture and evidence-based practice. She provides entertaining and informative case examples, applied exercises, and experiential scripts. In What You Feel Is Not All There Is, Dr. West guides readers on a journey that helps nurture flexible relationships with their emotions, empowering them to act upon what matters most. This book provides a trove of practical tips for regulation and resilience building; I highly recommend it."

"This is the book that all of us-- especially leaders--need to navigate the current and uncertain environment we all live in. Emotional Efficacy Training is a genuinely useful approach for developing a wise relationship with emotions and designing a more rich and meaningful life. In What You Feel Is Not All There Is, Dr Aprilia West has made the training accessible for everyone by combining empirical research with compelling real-life examples and experiential practice, all delivered with her trademark warmth, humour and honesty. Relevant, smart and fun. Highly recommended."

"In What You Feel Is Not All There Is, Dr. Aprilia West offers a guide for how readers can achieve meaningful engagement in every aspect of our lives, simply by mastering our relationship with our emotions. In doing so, Dr. West brings to bear her expertise as a psychologist, a coach, and a consultant to make the most impactful technologies of several empirically-based behavioral treatments available in a series of straightforward lessons and powerful exercises. The “Learnings” and “Challenges” at the end of each chapter make the text easy to use as a reference, and even the most psychologically savvy reader will find themselves returning to the text to they cultivate improved emotional efficacy. By the end of the book, what becomes possible is approaching life as a series of new and potentially, valued choices, by playing ‘infinite games’ in any moment.”"