Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again

Patterns learned early1

Self-defeating patterns, called lifetraps, come from messages people internalize, and keep them unhappy, unfulfilled or undeserving however well life goes.

They can be changed1

Recognizing a lifetrap and changing the thinking behind it can break the cycle, without drugs or long-term traditional therapy.

Eleven lifetraps1

Covers issues of abandonment, dependence, trust, social rejection, emotional deprivation, failure and vulnerability (Publishers Weekly).

Roots in childhood1

Each lifetrap is traced to its origins in childhood experience (Library Journal).

Test yourself1

A questionnaire for each lifetrap lets readers check which ones apply to them.

Three kinds of technique1

Experiential (getting in touch with your inner child), cognitive and behavioral steps, the same mix schema therapy uses (Library Journal).

The opening questions1

"Put the needs of others above your own? Start to panic when someone you love leaves—or threatens to?"

Build a case1

Readers write a 'case' against their lifetrap, then pick specific behaviors to change (Library Journal).

Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns

The newer self-help book, built on schema modes rather than single schemas.

Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide

The same model written for clinicians, with all eighteen schemas.

Schema therapy

The approach the book comes from.