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Better days : tame your inner critic / Neal Allen ; with foreword by Anne Lamott.
"If you're like most people, you have a voice in your head telling you to work harder, be better, make more friends, and screw up less. It frowns at your mistakes, warns you that your list needs tending, and questions your attractiveness. It's a bully. And you don't actually need it. The path to personal nirvana is routed through your inner critic. Better Days will help you confront and immobilize the superego-that nagging little voice in your head that sneers at your mistakes, questions your worth, and whose snarky commentary keeps you stuck in a childish cycle of reward and punishment. The method is simple, fun, and riveting: First you meet your inner critic. Then you talk to it. Then you speak up whenever it pokes in. Eventually it gets the picture that you don't need it, and it shuts up. Along the way you'll learn a dozen specific techniques anyone can use to move it to the side and reduce anxiety, increase satisfaction, and find your own freedom."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781897238844 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Namaste Publishing, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes a Reading Group Guide (pages 157-183). |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Confidence. Criticism, Personal. Self-acceptance. Self-talk. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 158.1 All | 31681010354843 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A writer and spiritual coach examines ways of meeting, confronting and quieting own inner critical voice to overcome stress and anxiety and clear spaces in our mind to live gentler and more peaceful lives. - Perseus Publishing
In this life-changing book, writer and spiritual coach, Neal Allen, teaches us a stunning new method for quieting the inner critic.
âBetter Days will help you get to know your inner critic, and quiet its yammering, and in so doing, get to know the person you were born to be.â - Anne Lamott, Author of Dusk Night Dawn, Bird by Bird and others
What if your superego has it wrong?
That snarky little bully in your headâ¦you know the one.
Youâve lived under its weight for decades.
Iâm a fraud, Iâm lazy
I need to work harder
I need to be tougher, funnier, calmerâ¦
I need to stay quiet, look pretty, stop showing off
I need to put others before me, I need to put myself first
I need to be perfect
I need to hide who I really am
Sound familiar?
You know that its scolding voice is harmful to you, but you can't will it away. You accept a life with short periods of peace and long stretches of stress and anxiety. But you don't have to.
In this revolutionary new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, writer and spiritual coach, Neal Allen, examines a critical aspect of the human psyche that often gets ignored - the superego.
Building on Freudâs idea that the superego necessarily forms a personâs moral conscience, Neal explains how this voice in your head develops in childhood as a survival mechanism, but when no longer needed for protection, camps out in your mind like a personal parasite. A parasite that doesnât belong.
Through simple and engaging exercises and explorations, Neal leads you into meeting, confronting, and ultimately quieting your own inner critic.
By shedding off the burden of the superego, you can overcome tired patterns of reward and punishment, reduce the self-talk that harms you, and ultimately clear an open space for the life you deserve, one that is gentler and more peaceful.
Just imagineâ¦if all that nasty, negative chatter in your head just evaporated ... what would you do next?
Better days are just ahead.
