Do you find yourself a victim of life’s challenges? Are you stressed out and overwhelmed? Do you get triggered into a spiral of negative thinking?
A psychotherapist and professor with decades of clinical, teaching, and research experience distills the 2 techniques that have the biggest impact on her clients’ stress, anxiety, and setting healthy boundaries and rewiring the human bias toward negativity to better able to cope with life stressors.
In Changing Negative Self-Talk and Setting Boundaries, you will learn the following science-supported ways to challenge toxic thinking5-minute thought log process to deal with triggers and painful feelings1 word that is the basis for all boundary-setting and it’s not NO6 reasons to draw a boundary3 steps to boundary setting5 ways to get motivated to set boundariesChanging Negative Self-Talk and Setting Boundariesis packed full of examples in which people used the tools to empower themselves. Additionally, the exercises prompt you to put them into practice for an immediate impact on your ability to handle stress and improve coping.
Jacqueline Corcoran was born in England, but has lived in the U.S. for most of her life - in Boston, California, Michigan, Texas, and now in the Washington D.C. area with her husband, two children, and three rescue animals. She is a social worker, psychotherapist and professor (at the University of Pennsylvania), as well as an author. Her published work includes 17 textbooks, two non-fiction trade titles, and several novels.
I found this to be such a helpful and thorough guidebook for working through stress and negative self talk. Sometimes we aren’t ready or in a position to work with a therapist; I think this is a fantastic resource for people who want to cultivate mental well being independently. Well done.