The complete set of simple exercises to successfully tame your inner critic. Whether an infrequent occurrence or a constant running narrative, internal self-talk ranges from the mildly irritating to the debilitating. Not always the classic sign of schizophrenia or other serious psychiatric disorder, it’s a common mental health complaint that can lead to depression, anxiety, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive thoughts if left unchecked. In this new two-book set of practical, take-charge strategies, Steve Andreas reveals how self-critical voices can be transformed and used to your own advantage. This package collects Andreas's popular first book, Transforming Negative Self Talk, with its sequel, More Transforming Negative Self Talk. It shows how to engage a voice rather than simply contradicting it. Rather than talk back or try to silence it, Andreas teaches readers how to join with a voice, clarify what it’s saying, ask for its positive intent, and use its specific abilities to their own advantage. Follow the exercises and you’ll be equipped to better manage your worst self-talk.

Provides exercises and strategies to use to control and maintain a positive and empowering spin on persistent negative inner chatter, including how to change the location, tempo, tone or volume to change the meaning of self-critical thoughts.

80% of the average person's inner mental chatter is negative. But everyone has the power to change theirs. Want to achieve your goals, be more content with yourself, and live your best life? Don't let negative thinking hold you back. Changing how you talk to yourself in your thoughts is the most effective way to change your approach to your exercise routine, diet, relationships, work and life. After reading this book you will know how to: Apply better mental strategies and tricks to daily life through changing negative thinking into positive thinking Use simple exercises to expand your thinking Declutter your mind of unproductive thoughts Finally achieve the things you couldn't motivate yourself to do before Approach your relationships to others and yourself with better understanding with self love Stop racing thoughts Stop worrying Gain distance and necessary perspective from your thoughts

A toolkit of simple exercises to successfully tame your inner critic. Whether an infrequent occurrence or a constant running narrative, internal self-talk can be mildly irritating or severely debilitating. Not always the classic sign of schizophrenia or other serious psychiatric disorder, it’s a common mental health complaint that can lead to depression, anxiety, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive thoughts if left unchecked. In this rich collection of practical, take-charge strategies, the author reveals how self-critical voices can be transformed and used to your own advantage. As a follow-up to his first popular book, Andreas digs deeper here, showing how to actually engage a voice as opposed to simply change it. Rather than talk back or try to silence it, Andreas teaches readers how to join with a voice, clarify what it’s saying, ask for its positive intent, use its specific abilities to your advantage, and more. Follow the exercises and you’ll be equipped to better manage your worst self-talk.

"Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It is an immediately helpful, life-changing handbook of how to deal with negative self-talk -- for yourself, or anyone in your life. Shad Helmstetter, Ph. D., the best-selling author of more than twenty books, is the leading authority in the field of self-talk today. In this 60-Minute Book written for today's reader, Dr. Helmstetter gives you all of the important information you need to change negative self-talk forever, in a short, easy-to-read, and condensed format. Also included is a special Guide to Changing Your Self-Talk from The Self-Talk Institute"--Page 4 of cover.

A toolkit of practical strategies for managing intrusive, negative self-talk and how you respond to it. Hearing a judgmental or disapproving internal narrative is a very common mental health complaint, and not always a sign of schizophrenia or another serious diagnosis. Persistent inner chatter and rumination can lead to depression, anxiety, phobias, trauma, obsessive-compulsive thoughts, and more. In this unique collection of practical, take-charge strategies, the author reveals how self-critical voices can actually be altered and used to your own advantage. Rather than changing the words themselves, Steve Andreas’s approach is to change how the words are spoken through specific, easy-to-implement techniques, such as changing the location of the voice; its distance from you; its tempo, tone, or volume; and much more. Unlike most therapies that advocate talking back or ignoring it, this guide offers exercises for viewing our self-talk as a useful and productive indicator of our emotions, and shows us how to take control of them in a more meaningful way.

Using Guided Imagery and Hypnosis in Brief Therapy and Palliative Care presents a model for effective single-session therapy. Chapters include more than a dozen case studies with transcripts and commentary. Readers will learn how to use an adapted model of Remen’s healing circle for preparing patients for surgery, and guided imagery and other approaches are presented for enhancing palliative care. Extensive appendixes provide a wide variety of valuable tools that psychotherapists can use with clients concerned with end-of-life issues.