Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Compulsive Behavior - General

In a society where it is often easier to discuss sex than money, many of us have hidden issues about personal finances. But when fending off bill collectors, begging for salary advances, or borrowing from relatives becomes a way of life, unresolved money problems can lead to enormous stress and destroy relationships, careers, and lives. Do you recognize yourself or someone you love in any of these descriptions?

THE COMPULSIVE SPENDER
Do you buy things and hide them?

THE BIG DEAL CHASER
Do you refuse to watch your money because one big deal is going to make everything all right?...

For many of us, perfectionism can bring life's most desired rewards. But when the obsessive need for perfection and control gets in the way of our professional and emotional lives, the cost becomes too high. Although many of us appear cool and confident on the outside, inside we are in emotional turmoil, trying to satisfy everyone, attempting to direct the future, and feeling that we are failing.
In TOO PERFECT, Dr. Allan Mallinger draws on twenty years of research and observations from his private practice to show how perfectionism can sap energy, complicate even the simplest decisions,...

Are you a shopaholic?
Do you use shopping as a quick fix for the blues?
Do you often buy things that you don t need or can t afford?
Do your buying binges leave you feeling anxious or guilty?
Is your shopping behavior hurting your relationships?
Have you tried to stop but been unable to?

If so, you are not alone. Nearly 18 million Americans are problem shoppers, unable to break the buying habits that lead them into debt, damaged relationships, and depression. If this describes you, or someone you care about, the help you need is here.
Drawing on recent research...

Take Control of Your Life

Chances are, you've already had run-ins with your Outer Child -- the self-sabotaging, bungling, and impulsive part of your personality. This misguided, hidden nemesis blows your diet, overspends, and ruins your love life. Your Outer Child acts out and fulfills your legitimate childlike needs and wants in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in counterproductive ways: It goes for immediate gratification and the quick fix in spite of your best-laid plans.

Now, in a revolutionary rethinking of the link between emotion and behavior, veteran...

Bad habits steal your energy, your time and peace of mind. How much time do you spend thinking about how to stop doing that, but never truly stop? Vicki and Ellie's "Just Stop Doing That" helps you examine the underlying reasons for your bad habit in Part 1, then you immediately work through the Rapid Advance Process in Part 2.

Behavioral Addictions: A New Solution to Very Old Problems is a pioneering work. It expands the whole arena of how addiction is regarded and the extensive ground addictions can cover. The book honors early self-help pioneers who noticed certain hallmarks of addiction in behaviors far-removed from their prior drug- and alcohol-based addiction histories. What they noticed is now codified as the Five Diagnostic Criteria for diagnosing addiction-all addictions. The Five Diagnostic Criteria, because they are derived directly from the world of alcoholism and drug addiction, are especially important...

This story is more than my story, it is another example of the saving grace of Jesus. It is a story of how He pursued a very lost and broken heart, yet one He ransomed on the cross so many years ago. It is a story that keeps telling, as He continues to teach me what walking and living with Him looks like since He has called me out of homosexuality and into His embrace. It is a story of a war that waged in a realm I could not see, but so deeply felt. Most importantly, it is a story of victory, a message of hope for anyone who may be fighting a similar battle.

This book was written as a result of the many individuals I had the opportunity to treat who had addiction issues. As a Probation officer, Correctional Counselor and Psychotherapist, I would make referrals to various agencies to assist these individuals in their recovery. I also provided group and individual counseling for them. What I found to be most effective was the incorporation of the spiritual aspect of addiction. Addiction can portray itself in many different forms, but the spirit is the same. The principles found in this book will work with any form of addiction, because it addresses...

From the author of The Anxiety Toolkit, an empowering guide to overcoming self-defeating behaviors, using cutting-edge clinical and cognitive-behavioral concepts and tools

Whether we're aware or not, most of us are perpetrators and victims of self-sabotage, a powerful pattern of negative behavior in which we act against our own best interests and then blame ourselves or others for these self-inflicted failures. Self-sabotage can manifest as seemingly innocuous things like not following through on New Year's resolutions or as harmful actions like blaming or abusing someone we...