Why Do I Keep Doing That? Why Do I Keep Doing That?: Breaking the Negative Patterns in Your Life

by Dennis Wholey

Why We Do What We Dont Want to Do--and How to Stop Why Do I Keep Doing That? Why Do I Keep Doing That? explains why we all experience the compulsion to repeat and discover the most successful ways to stop doing what we dont want to do . . . whether we drink it, smoke it, snort it, pop it, spend it, gamble it, eat it, work it, feel it, or have sex or a relationship with it. As a recovering alcoholic, Dennis Wholey knows firsthand what it takes to break an addiction. In his New York Times bestseller The Courage to Change, Wholey brilliantly changed the way people viewed the negative pattern of substance addiction. Now, in this highly anticipated book, Why Do I Keep Doing That? Why Do I Keep Doing That?, Wholey expands the exploration of the compulsion to repeat by tackling other negative and self-defeating patterns of various types and degrees. Habits are hard to break--especially destructive ones that bring about pain in our lives, create continuous problems or obstacles, keep us with people who are bad for us, and prevent us from reaching our full potential. We all have our own answer and our own path to healing. Dennis Wholey helps you find yours. He shows us how to make these changes with expert insights from his team of behavioral experts along with personal stories of different negative behaviors and lifestyles, questionnaires, evaluations, and personal inventories that dig into your own life and background. Why Do I Keep Doing That? Why Do I Keep Doing That? shows you how to find the answers you seek, the support you deserve, and the understanding you must have to forge your way to a happier, more rewarding life--and a truer sense of who you are.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 13, 2003

Reviews

[Yasmin Tawil · Rating 5 out of 5]

كتاب رائع يجيب علي ابسط و اعقد سؤال يواجهنا" لماذا لا أتوقف عن فعل ذلك"؟ انصح جداً بقرائتة!

[Jojo_booread · Rating 5 out of 5]

💕-من أقرب الكتب غير الروائية التي قرأتها إلى قلبي، وأحبها إلي، ومن أكثر الكتب التي حزنت بعد فراقها وتعلقت بها جداً، للكتاب نواحٍ جمالية كثيرة ومنها تجنب الكاتب للرتابة والملل في السرد من خلال التنوع.. من دراسات علمية، وحوارات مع مختلف المستشارين من شتى المجالات، وقصص لأشخاص وصفوا مشاكلهم مع عاداتهم السيئة وكيف استطاعوا التغلب عليها، وما أثر ذلك في نفوسهم، بل وقصة الكاتب نفسه الذي عانى من نفس المشكلة! التنوع في سرد المحتوى في الكتاب جعله ممتعاً جداً بالنسبة لي، بل وجعل من السهل وصول المعلومة إلى الذهن، وحفظها والعمل بها. الكتاب يعطي أملاً عظيماً محفزاً من خلال أن هناك دائماً فرصة للتغيير! فهنا ستجد كل الأجوبة على سؤال لماذا نستمر في القيام بأمور لا نرغب بالقيام بها✔️. السلبيات؛ التناقض الذي لم ينجح الكاتب في فك شيفرته، والذي أعلم جيداً أنه غير مقصود، فقد ذكر في بادئ ذي بدء-من معنى كلامه-تحمل الأهل والبيئة التي عاش فيها الطفل كامل المسؤولية على عاداته السيئة التي سيكتسبها في سن الرشد، ثم في فصول أخرى يبين تحمل الفرد كامل مسؤولية نفسه🤷‍♀️❗

💕-مناسب للقراء المتقدمين.

[Mark Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book helped me learn quite a bit about myself.

[Ann Warner · Rating 4 out of 5]

With these kind of books, there are usually one or two things that end up sticking in my mind. With this one, what stuck was the description of a specific approach to overcoming bad habits...something called the Yoga Technique. It, of course, requires one to identify the bad habit and then to make 2 lists. One list is of all the bad things associated with the habit. The second list is of all the good things about not having the habit any more. Then one reviews the lists regularly...a type of training of the subconscious brain.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

One to make you think -- and change!

[Annie]

i'm working up old memories, painful ones with this one. never quite finished it though.

[Saeed · Rating 5 out of 5]

To read it more than one time

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