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Table of Contents for Be Your Own Therapist
Chapter 1: Introduction: Self Help Book
Doing 90+% Of Therapy Yourself Popular Ideas May Be Harmful To Your Happiness Empowering Yourself Help For Your Problems? We Are Like Fixer-Upper Houses Let Me Be Your Guru Follow Your Own Yellow Brick Road Find Your Optimum Therapeutic Focus Being Your Own Therapist There Are Many Choices Being Grateful And Appreciative
Chapter 2: Creativity & Spontaneity
Spontaneity, Creativity, Playfulness, Fun & Laughter Changing Fear And Ignorance Imagery I-Want-Lists
Chapter 3: Psychology (Simple But Essential)
psychology K.I.S.S.= Keep It Simple Stupid (Directions From Me To Me) The Nature Of Trauma Your Wish Is My Command The Search For Approval Untying Trauma Knots Later Stress Reducing/Resolving Stress = Therapy Result
Chapter 4: Making Changes / Stages Of Healing
Stages Of Healing Making Changes In Small Steps (Stage Iva Above) "Impossible" Successes Procrastination A Personal Example Changing Others Effectively A Lousy Way Of Making Changes = Self Criticism
Chapter 5: Your Body Is Not A Carcass
Ignore Your Body, Suffer The Consequences Bodywork Therapy Be Your Own Bodyworker Touching And Being Touched Avoiding Toxins Couch Potato Benefits psychological Reasons Why We Don't Exercise Fitness In 30 Minutes A Week? An Exercise Program For Those Who Hate To Exercise Awakening And Revitalizing The Bodily Senses
Chapter 6: Mystery Meat
Is Mystery Meat Your Problem? Common Food Allergies What Test For Food Allergies? Doing The Testing Yourself Appendix D Do-It-Yourself Allergy Testing Appendix D: Personal Example - Testing For Food Allergies
Chapter 7: Permanent Weight Loss
Your Impulses Lead To Blind Alleys Add-A-Carrot Weight Loss Diet Changing Food Preferences psychology Factors In Your Fat/Obesity Lady Macbeth's Weight Loss Diet Was Doomed Food Binges Are Natural Phenomena Success Tip: Flavor Instead Of Fat
Chapter 8: Thinking/Cognitive Processes
Let Me Hit You With A Sledgehammer The Tyranny Of Judgments That Is The Way I Am You Make Me Unhappy You Hurt My Feelings- Therefore You Should Change Sticks And Stones We Dig Thinking Ruts Size And Contents Of The Unconscious Nature Vs. Nurture Vs. Lifeplan The Perfection That You Are Now Be Happy Getting What You Don't Want You'll See It When You Believe It You Get What You Believe In How Close Can We Come To "Happily Ever After"?
Chapter 9: Emotions (Love, Hate, Etc.)
Emotional Health = Mental Health Anger And Outrage Holding On To The Rage Anger Keeps Coming Back Love 1 2 Sadness Fear Stuck Feelings Skewed Emotional Expression Is Rampant
Chapter 10: Trauma Roots = Therapy Roots
People Are Not Flocking To Join This Club Blaming Is Valuable - Blaming Is Useless Hatred Hurt Hopelessness Healing The Future
Chapter 11: Spirituality
Was This Chapter Banned In Boston? Golden Retriever Magic Spirituality - Truth Or Quackery? Spirituality Is Not Religion When Does Random Chance Become A Fraud? Earth School Happier Choices Two Happier Belief Systems One-Time-Around Vs. Reincarnation Past Lives Therapy Astrology This Is A Safe Universe I Get Exactly What I Need What About Being A Victim? Summary Of Beliefs Happy And Unhappy
Chapter 12: Our Favorite Groups
This Author Wants You! Celebration Time Must Lack Of Understanding Feel Bad? Hard Truths @ Understanding And Being Understood Your Group Has The Same Problems As Acme Inc. Going-Along Disease Blaming Others Disease Effective Activism Today Think Globally, Act Locally
Chapter 13: Men - Women
Women & Men: Our Masculine-Feminine Misconceptions I Want A Cheese Sandwich Men Don't Listen; Men Don't Communicate Left Brain - Right Brain The Housework Battlefield Friends Better Know Their Roles Support May Be Dangerous To Relationships The Insensitivity Of Men The Saga Of John Doe (White Male, Average Guy) The Insensitivity Of Women Feminists Are A Diverse Group
Chapter 14: Work
Work: Doing What You Love That Impossible Boss/ Committee Job Stress Women's & Men's Work - Will They Ever Be The Same? Discrimination In The Workplace The Glass Ceiling Competition: What We Learned Competition: Good Or Bad? Job Do's
Chapter 15: Accepting Our psychology Of Sex Education - psychological Sexual Health Care
Accepting Our psychology Of Sex Education - psychological Sexual Health Care The Caviar Of Sex What About Your Dreadful Sexual Dream Last Night? Overcoming Our Puritan Heritage Sex By The Scorecard Do We Choose Our Sexual Preferences? Sexual Boxes Treatment Of Gay Men, Lesbians And Bisexuals Achieving A Calmer Pornography Viewpoint 1 2 Sex & The Catholic Church Rape Sex Therapy Sex Therapy We All Received Women And Men Will Never Be The Same Sexually
Chapter 16: Family
Are 97% Of Families Neurotic? Traumatizing Children - 97% Of Them? Are We Really Humane? Effective Parenting Our Current Families Bring Out Our Skewness Mothers Can Be Sexist Too Many Men Still Abdicate Their Parenting Roles Working Moms - Are Their Kids Ok? Latchkey Children Don't Do As Well The Search For Approval The Elderly
Chapter 17: Violence
Violence: How Do I Contribute To The Added Violence? Teaching Our Children To Be Unhappy Our Values & Spiritual Beliefs Help Cause The Violence The Numbing Process How Do We Contribute To The Homeless Problem? Verbal Bashing Can Lead To Violence Opportunities To Change The Violence How Ingrained Is The Violence?
Chapter 18: Therapists And Therapies
Recommended Goal Of Therapy: Inner Peace Don't Give All Your Personal Power To A Therapist Therapists Will Disagree With These Words Finding A Therapist - Setting Therapy Goals Life Is Lumpy Changes, Self-Growth And Therapy Don't Always Tickle Ventilation Is Not Enough Suffering Smarter Is Dumb Each Therapy Has Its Own Limits All People Do Not Have The Same Motivations Feelings Therapists In Therapy Lemon Therapists Our Society Is On The Right Track Missing From This Book Your Perfect Therapy
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