A much-needed How-Not-To guide from the author of The New York Times bestseller The Courage to Change.
Damaging relationships. Bad financial and career decisions. Substance abuse. Ceaseless approval seeking. To some degree, we all create and give in to patterns of behavior that lead to pain, harm and self-defeat. Aren't we supposed to "know better?"
Forget such unhelpful platitudes! Dennis Wholey has assembled a top-flight team-bestsellers Peter Kramer (Listening to Prozac), Dr. Natalie Shainess (Sweet Suffering) and Brad Blanton (Radical Honesty) among them-to skillfully guide every reader into a way of life unhindered by compulsive, repetitive urges.
The book's first section explores just what makes us , from genetics to childhood programming, and explains how and why we write the destructive mini-scripts that can hold sway over us even in adulthood. (Invaluable for proactive parents!)
Next we meet real people, once slaves to their impulses, to hear firsthand their inspiring accounts of liberation. Finally, the book's last section integrates all that has come before to offer effective-and doable-methods for living compulsion-free. Professional and group therapy is candidly discussed, and plain-English "self-quizzes" engage and sustain the reader throughout.
It's about getting better, not "knowing better." So, ask yourself: Why Do I Keep Doing That?
