Self-Therapy for Your Inner Critic: Transforming Self Criticism into Self-Confidence
From the Foreword This extraordinarily helpful book uses transcripts from real conversations, playful illustrations, checklists, and questionnaires. The authors, both deeply experienced in Internal Family Systems Therapy, clearly show a step-by-step process of diminishing the critic's power and transforming it into an ally through psychological alchemy, which is at the heart of their therapeutic method. They've found the perfect balance point by writing a book that isn't too dense in theory to be useful and isn't too superficial to have much lasting impact. The inner critic is often disguised, defended, and deeply enmeshed within us in contradictory thoughts, feelings, and sensations. In a further sign of the authors' true mastery of the topic, they make this confusing bundle of reactions clear and accessible. The book also shows how we can gain access to parts of ourselves that can bring encouragement, continuous learning and self-correction to our most important activities and relationships. As a consequence, readers can develop themselves into someone with much greater confidence and independence of thought and action. Please jump into this book and take on its activities, at first for yourself; they will bring you immediate relief and learning. Then, if you're someone who works with others, bring the book's practical wisdom to your clients. They will be grateful, well served, and left with much greater self-knowledge and competence. With gratitude, respect, and admiration for Jay and Bonnie, I wholeheartedly recommend you bring your full commitment and dedication to this book. James FlahertyFounder of New Ventures West, Integral Coaching®Author ofCoaching: Evoking Excellence in Others