Be the One to Heal Your Self: A Workbook for People Who Want Results Now

You don’t need to spend years and years on a therapist’s couch to improve your life for the better. Instead, you can learn how to reduce or even eliminate feelings of anxiety, stress, and depression for yourself with this workbook. This step-by-step guide, designed to support you in writing from the different parts of yourself, will walk you gently through the process of finding the roots of these feelings so you can begin to heal them. Be the One to Heal Your Self is based on the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, an approach to self understanding that reveals all of us have competing sub-personalities (“parts”) that are trying hard to protect us from bad feelings. IFS teaches us that our parts have good intentions, but they can never truly remove anxiety and stress from our lives. The only way to restore inner harmony is to locate your Self, or the true you that lives at the center of it all, and grow its qualities of calm, compassion, curiosity, courage, clarity, creativity, confidence, and connection. Be the One to Heal Your Self has specific exercises to help you go at your own pace, practical techniques for managing difficult emotions as they pop up, and strategies to change your life over the long term.