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MEET MICHAEL ODEN




Michael S. Oden, is the founder of “The Final Step”  and The Needs Based
Method®.  He is  a Speaker, Behavioral Specialist, Personal & Corporate Coach,
with Masters in Counseling  Psychology and Author.

In the early stages of his professional career, Michael pursued an acting career
that expanded 8 years. During that time, Michael also taught at the  juvenile
halls as a substitute teacher and the juvenile camps as a Deputy Probation
Officer. Today, Michael is currently a Deputy Probation Officer II for the
County of Los Angeles who has mentored thousands of individuals and worked with
various support groups with behavioral issues for the past 15 years.

Because of his day to day contact with his clients, as a Deputy Probation
Officer, Michael decided to write a book about their life experiences in a book
titled, “When Nobody’s Home” – Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award 2016 – Self-help
– which discusses the impact of growing in a fatherless home. Due to this
experience, Michael has combined several powerful techniques  that make up what
he utilizes in his practice called, “The Needs Based Method®.” This approach
gives awareness and understanding about the “whys” of  an individual’s behavior
and  how getting or not getting specific social/emotional “need(s)”  met  during
childhood and present  day can impact how a person navigates in their world;  be
it life diminishing or life fulfilling.  The goal of TNBM is to acknowledge the
origins of the wanted or unwanted behavior, shift the belief about the behavior(
if need be), and  heal the belief  so the individual can be empowered to
change.  This holistic approach has allowed Michael to enhance thousands of
lives. Those who are willing to understand, listen, learn and apply will gain
the best results. With this approach Michael has reached an 85% success rate.

“When Nobody’s Home”: Reveal and Heal the Missing Pieces of Childhood Trauma and
Painful Experiences

“…sometimes we need to go through the darkness to get to the light and that it
may be emotionally painful…”

Having conducted “over 8,000 plus interviews with emotionally troubled and
alcohol and drug offenders, regarding their drug/alcohol dependency,” Oden
developed an effective program to help his clients break the cycle of
dependency. “With that in mind, this book reviews and explains the Needs Based
Method® of [overcoming] alcohol and drug abuse,” and how Oden deals with the
“why” dependency happens—”the emotional, physical, or social absence of or
‘neglect’ by a caretaker, or when nobody’s home.”



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When Nobody’s Home is both book title and metaphor on the underlying
contributing factors leading to addiction. As a title, this book presents
information based on the author’s thousands of interviews and statistics on the
increasing incidence of single parent families and families in which the parents
are absent, either due to the requirements of working to support the family or
neglect in the role and responsibilities as caregiver in the home. As a
metaphor, When Nobody’s Home speaks to the unmet needs addicts experience during
childhood that creates emotional suffering. Often, this underlying root cause is
unrealized by the individual, and in an attempt to gain relief from this
emotional suffering, individuals frequently find solace in drug or alcohol
addiction.

Michael Oden’s book is clearly written and an easy read in plain language
without psychological jargon. The author’s compassion for those suffering from
addiction and his desire to help them understand their addiction, and how they
can turn their lives around, is evident in his effort to strive to understand
them, not just their problems, but as feeling human beings. Spread throughout
the book are client stories that reveal the family experiences of his clients,
explaining how Oden helped them identify the unsatisfied needs of their
childhood, and sharing the impact this had on their self-image and prospective
outlook on life changes they needed to make. I especially appreciated the
various diagrams and charts in the book that defined and demonstrated the
concepts, methodology, development, and thinking processes relevant to helping
addicts make a lasting change.

In today’s society, addiction can be seen everywhere: a family member, friend’s
family member, in certain neighborhoods, and even on television in the news or
in fictional shows. While this book focuses on the author’s experience in
assisting those with drug and alcohol addictions, I think the process applicable
to the broader population. I feel we are all affected, to some degree, in our
life stories by unmet needs at some point in our lives, and, as a result, we
experience some emotional discomfort or trauma. Like drug and alcohol addicts,
we seek solace in other things to lesser degrees that are likely more acceptable
in society and not illegal. We have sought solace in shopping, eating comfort
foods, sweets, or risky behaviors that are unhealthy for us. We even make light
of these other pursuits by calling ourselves shopaholics and even chocaholics!
How many other behaviors might we gain more control of and perspective on if we
used the tools offered in this book to better understand ourselves and the
drivers for our own behavior?

Parents can also gain lessons from this book on how their children might be
impacted by unmet needs. Parents should not feel judged by this or complacently
feel this book is not applicable to them. Today’s youth are also highly
influenced by their peers and can be traumatized by these peers through school
or cyber bullying, very pertinent issues in our present day lives. Nothing is as
indelible as a child, and children often adopt misconceptions that we as adults
don’t even realize they harbor. How can we make children less vulnerable if we
don’t know how the potential seeds of these issues are first sown?

Some readers might argue the statistics in this book or the suppositions made as
to the origins of addiction, but I urge those readers to approach this not as a
scientific treatise or journal article, but as the insightful offering of a
compassionate professional with years of experience in helping those most in
need. For those who are open with a desire to learn more about the human
condition and underlying psychological factors that can impact us all, I highly
recommend this book.

Reviewed by Valerie Freitas
San Francisco Book Review





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