Reinventing Your Life: How to Break Free from Negative Life Patterns and Feel Good Again (Paperback)

Reinventing Your LifeForeword by Aaron Beck, M.D. Preface 1. Lifetraps 2. Which Lifetraps Do You Have? 3. Understanding Lifetraps 4. Surrender, Escape, and Counterattack 5. How Lifetraps Change 6. "Please Don't Leave Me!": The Abandonment Lifetrap 7. "I Can't Trust You": The Mistrust and Abuse Lifetrap 8. "I'll Never Get the Love I Need": The Emotional Deprivation Lifetrap 9. "I Don't Fit In": The Social Exclusion Lifetrap 10. "I Can't Make It on My Own": The Dependence Lifetrap 11. "Catastrophe Is About to Strike": The Vulnerability Lifetrap 12. "I'm Worthless": The Defectiveness Lifetrap 13. "I Feel Like Such a Failure": The Failure Lifetrap 14. "I Always Do It Your Way!": The Subjugation Lifetrap 15. "It's Never Quite Good Enough": The Unrelenting Standards Lifetrap 16. "I Can Have Whatever I Want": The Entitlement Lifetrap 17. A Philosophy of Change References Index