Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating BehaviorPractical, proven self help steps show how to transform 40 common self-defeating behaviors, including procrastination, envy, obsession, anger, self-pity, compulsion, neediness, guilt, rebellion, inaction, and more. |
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Page xvii
... mind, work was not supposed to be something you enjoyed but something you endured. If it wasn't hard, it wasn't legitimate. I told all this to the dean. He thought the answer was simple: become a psychiatrist. “But that would be the ...
... mind, work was not supposed to be something you enjoyed but something you endured. If it wasn't hard, it wasn't legitimate. I told all this to the dean. He thought the answer was simple: become a psychiatrist. “But that would be the ...
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... mind to the loop, allowing you to be reflective instead of reflexive, to act on intelligence instead of on impulse and consciously choose the best course of action. Step 1: Increase physical awareness. Impulses begin as physical ...
... mind to the loop, allowing you to be reflective instead of reflexive, to act on intelligence instead of on impulse and consciously choose the best course of action. Step 1: Increase physical awareness. Impulses begin as physical ...
Page xxv
... minds long after they first hear them. One patient called them “the gift that keeps on guiding.” I recommend that you write down the insights that pertain to the behaviors you are working on and post them on the bathroom mirror or ...
... minds long after they first hear them. One patient called them “the gift that keeps on guiding.” I recommend that you write down the insights that pertain to the behaviors you are working on and post them on the bathroom mirror or ...
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Contents
Section 1 | 71 |
Section 2 | 95 |
Section 3 | 99 |
Section 4 | 138 |
Section 5 | 173 |
Section 6 | 177 |
Section 7 | 179 |
Section 8 | 181 |
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Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior Mark Goulston,Philip Goldberg Limited preview - 1996 |
Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior Mark Goulston,Philip Goldberg Limited preview - 1996 |
Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior Mark Goulston,Philip Goldberg No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
able accept adult advice AESCHYLUS afraid Alcoholics Anonymous ALEXANDER POPE anger angry avoid become child Columbo core of hate create defeating effort emotional empathy envy example expect express fear feel safe feel sorry felt forgive FRANCIS BACON frustration getting give happen hope husband important impulse keep kids less listen lives look lose Mark Goulston marriage Menninger Foundation mind mother needy never okay OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES OSCAR WILDE ourselves overcome pain parents partner patients Paul Penguin Group Penguin Group USA PERIGEE person play problem procrastinate promise psychosomatic illness quitting too soon RALPH WALDO EMERSON realize reason rebel relationship resentment self-defeating behavior sense situation someone spouse stop sure TAKING ACTION talking tell therapist therapy things thought told trauma trust turn understand upset USABLE INSIGHT usually wait wife wrong you’re