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"Practical suggestions, sympathetic understanding, a clear
style, and user-friendly organization add to this above-average manual for
maximizing personal happiness."
―
Publishers Weekly, Feb.
16, 2004
When we feel overwhelmed, stuck, or dissatisfied,
we often yearn for a heart-to-heart no-nonsense conversation with someone we
trust. This book offers straight talk on how to turn your life around and shows
how to create powerful self-motivating conversations on your own whenever you need them.
In this engaging "How To" for increasing self-awareness
and self-acceptance, bestselling author and practicing therapist Dan Neuharth
shows how to detect and overcome the psychological "blind spots" which
can undermine
your relationships, health, success, and happiness. You’ll learn how to
transcend paralyzing thoughts like "I can’t" or "I don’t want to" and vanquish
tyrannizing beliefs like "I shouldn’t" or "I must."
Aimed at the heart of your counterproductive habits and
patterns, this book offers dozens of tools and insights powerful enough to break
through the stubborn and complex phenomenon of denial. Self-sabotaging denial is
akin to keeping a beach ball submerged; it requires constant energy. By
discovering how and why you get in your own way, you free tremendous energy to
move forward on your unfinished projects and unlived dreams.
Getting in your own way is not a sign of weakness,
nor does it mean that you’re a bad person or that there’s something wrong with
you. The good news is that self-inflicted losses are avoidable. This book shows
you how to bring greater honesty and authenticity to your one-and-only 24/7
relationship.
Written in a compassionate tone and easy-to-follow
format, the book contains fascinating case studies, powerful exercises, and
straight talk to help you overcome counterproductive habits including:
- Procrastinating
- Overindulging in food, drink, or
spending
- Ignoring or minimizing problems in
relationships, finances, or health
- Taking on too many tasks
- Holding unrealistic expectations
- Acting impulsively without considering the consequences
- Getting distracted or losing your focus
- Feeling stuck or overwhelmed when starting an
important task
- Having difficulty believing in yourself or your dreams
- Dwelling on regrets or resentments and feeling unable to move on
- Skipping exercising
- Overruling your intuition or feelings
- Obsessing over a trip, purchase, or other decision
- Feeling as though you don’t deserve what you most desire
This thought-provoking
exploration of how and why we lose touch with our “best” selves
offers features including:
- A surefire Litmus Test for detecting self-sabotage in its earliest stages
- Ten proven techniques for “fear-busting”
- Foolproof ways to identify and correct the “fuzzy math” we use in justifying self-defeating
choices
- An “Inner Character Detector” to illuminate potentially counterproductive
coping styles
- A “Hidden-Self Portrait” to reveal hopes and fears which may be influencing
you without your knowledge
- “Psychological wake-up calls” to help you create and maintain a healthy
balance among your mental, physical, and emotional selves
SECRETS YOU KEEP FROM YOURSELF will help
you move beyond fears which have stopped you in the past, bring more of yourself
to each present moment, and craft a
future of greater contentment, self-acceptance, and
honesty with yourself.
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