Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

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Three Minute Therapy can help to change your life for the better. You will find yourself looking at life in a different way. Your emotional troubles will seem less mysterious and less powerful. If you take the trouble to learn the techniques explained in Three Minute Therapy, think about them, and apply them to your problems, you will be able to tackle difficulties that may have seemed impossible. Some of your worst fears and anxieties can diminish or dissolve away, and you will become more effective at pursuing your chosen life goals. The techniques used in Three Minute Therapy show you, clearly and simply, how you needlessly upset yourself, and it gives you many thinking, feeling, and action methods of reducing your disturbances while still retaining your main goals, values, and preferences. Three Minute Therapy can add years of healthier and happier living to your life. Contents Foreword Preface: What This Book Can Do for You Acknowledgments 1 Ending Your Self-Inflicted Pain 2 Worry: Sharks in the Swimming Pool 3 Self-Esteem: The “Feel Good About Yourself” Trap 4 Marriage: Vicious and Delicious Circles 5 Anger: The High Price of Losing Your Cool 6 Procrastination: The Easy Road to a Stressful Life 7 Depression: To Hell and Back 8 Overeating and Smoking: It’s All in Your Head 9 Panic Attacks: They Don’t Come Out of the Blue 10 Money: You Make Your Own Misery 11 Compulsive Drinking: Don’t Swallow the AA Brew 12 Social Anxiety: To Hug and Hug Not 13 Secondary Disturbance: Getting Upset About Being Upset 14 How to Be Happy: A Beginning Index