Excess Baggage: Discover Which Ruling Passion is Weighing You Down! - Couverture souple

Sills, Judith

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ISBN 10 : 0722528116 ISBN 13 : 9780722528112

Editeur : Thorsons, 1993

Synopsis

The five most common ways people make their lives harder for themselves are: the need to be right, to feel superior, to create drama, to dread rejection, to hold onto anger. Excess baggage is the psychological baggage that people carry around with them. People are often unaware of their own baggage, although it is blindingly obvious to others. Everyone is dominated by one of five ruling passions - control, attachment, self-esteem, security, justice - which govern reactions, speech, behaviour, expectations, dreams, loves and hates. They are essentially "dysfunctional" pieces of personality which cause problems when allowed to get out of hand. This book examines the ins and outs of working out what the reader's ruling passion is, seeing how it affects life and relationships, understanding it, and then improving life by changing behaviour. The personality needn't be changed - just minimize the effect of it's excess baggage.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Maybe you always have to finish what you start—from a book to a dismal marriage. Or your mother is always there when you need her—but sometimes you wish she had somewhere else to go. Each of us has a little too much of our own good thing—it's excess baggage that's holding us back.

As Judith Sills says in this exceptionally wise and refereshingly pragmatic book, everyone has baggage. It's the aspect of your personality that keeps getting in your way.

Excess Baggage shines a light on our blind spots, defining five common obstacles to happiness that we create:

• We need to be right
• We feel superior
• We dread rejection
• We create drama
• We cherish our anger

Life doesn't have to be so hard. Using easy-to-follow but powerful psychological excercises, Dr. Sills helps you discover just what it is about yourself that keeps you from getting what you want. Then you can set your excess baggage down foerever—and get out of your own way.

Biographie de l'auteur

Judith Sills, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who for the last decade has appeared regularly on such national television shows as Oprah, Sally Jessy Raphaël, and NBC News. She is a contributing editor to Family Circle, the largest-circulation women’s magazine in America, and also writes for O, The Oprah Magazine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thorsons
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0722528116
• ISBN 13: 9780722528112
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible