Break free from self-sabotaging survival patterns and transform your life
• Discover the six keys to empowerment and take ownership of your life
• Activate the healing power of your subconscious mind to accelerate change and growth and eliminate the root causes of chronic anxiety, depression, and other limiting mental and emotional challenges
• Learn effective brain-rewiring methods and practical tools based on neuro-linguistic programming and clinical hypnotherapy
When you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, just keeping your emotions in check seems like a full-time job. Yet, what may hold you back in life even more are your survival patterns. Have you ever wondered why you make yourself invisible, procrastinate, or please others to get their approval? Our subconscious employs survival patterns like these to protect us from rejection, failure, and hurt. However, living in subconscious “survival mode” has significant downsides: when we live “just to survive,” we become disconnected from our true selves and our innate ability to live an empowered life of purpose, fulfillment, and self-reliant confidence.
In this step-by-step guide, Friedemann Schaub, M.D., Ph.D., explores how to break free from the six most common survival patterns—the victim, invisibility, the procrastinator, the chameleon, the helper, and the lover—by engaging the part of the mind that created them in the first place: the subconscious. Providing research-backed insights and brain- rewiring methods based on his 20 years’ experience, Dr. Friedemann details how, through activating the healing power of the subconscious, you can throw off the shackles of these self-sabotaging patterns and “flip” them into the six keys to self-empowerment, allowing you to take self-reliant ownership of your life. Revealing how to work with the subconscious mind and become the leader of your life, the author details how to free yourself from living in survival mode, learn to love and accept yourself, and make authenticity and confidence your everyday way of being.
ISBN-13: 9781644116418
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication Date: 03-21-2023
Pages: 352
Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Friedemann Schaub, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician, researcher, personal development coach, and the author of the award-winning book The Fear and Anxiety Solution. His research and advice have been featured in many publications, including Nature Medicine, Oprah Magazine, Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest, Teen Vogue, and Shape. He is the host of the Empowerment Solutions podcast and lives between Seattle, Washington, and the South of France.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I
Taking Inventory
Why You Are Never Powerless
1 Survival and the Slow Loss of Self
2 The Subconscious Mind: Your Agent of Change
PART II
Taking Responsibility
From Anxiously Avoiding Discomfort to Confidently Creating Your Reality
3 The Victim Pattern and the Illusion of Powerlessness
4 Self-Responsibility: The Key to Owning Your Past
5 The Invisibility Pattern: Living Under the Radar
6 Self-Compassion: The Key to Owning Your Hidden Gifts
7 The Procrastinator Pattern: Waiting for Tomorrow
8 Self-Reliance: The Key to Owning Your Actions
PART III
Taking a Stand
From Pleasing Others to Loving Your Authentic Self
9 The Chameleon Pattern: Fitting In at All Costs
10 Self-Reflection: The Key to Owning Your Truth
11 The Helper Pattern: Over-Extended and Underappreciated
12 Self-Commitment: The Key to Owning Your Energy
13 The Lover Pattern: Aching for Love
14 Self-Love: The Key to Owning Yourself
PART IV
Taking Charge
Integration through Implementation
15 The Empowered Leader of Your Life
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author and Resources
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