Too Tired to Keep Running-Too Scared to Stop - Softcover

Patenaude, Joyce A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862042705 ISBN 13: 9781862042704

Publisher: Element Books Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Psychotherapist Joyce Patenaude draws upon more than twenty years of experience to examine what she has found to be the fundamental belief that underlies so many people's discontentment and unhappiness.

Beliefs that we are not smart enough, attractive enough, young enough, rich enough, thin enough are unfortunately universal. These thoughts are manifestations of our belief that perhaps something is inadequate at our core.

Too Tired to Keep Running-Too Scared to Stop shows how the core belief of our own inadequacy originates and takes hold, and how it develops into a multitude of limiting beliefs forming a blueprint of personal reality. Dr. Patenaude offers powerful techniques for eliminating these limiting beliefs and self-destructive patterns permanently.

With chapters on careers, relationships, health and the characteristics of limiting beliefs in men and women, Dr. Patenaude offers a highly practical guide for creating positive change at the most basic level.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Joyce Nelson Patenaude is a licensed psychotherapist supporting major changes in the lives of her clients. She has been in private practice for more than twenty years. She lectures and conducts seminars, workshops and retreats in the fields of mind/body healing, psychology, emotional health, women's emotional health issues and healthy relationships. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband, Andre.

From Publishers Weekly:

Despite its title, this isn't yet another directive to simplify one's daily life. The subtitle more aptly expresses psychotherapist Patenaude's message that inner convictions create a person's life, and that altering one will transform the other. She clearly illustrates how beliefs beget feelings, which in turn produce behavior, and she identifies the "core belief" underlying all others as a universal human sense of "not-enoughness," a "basic feeling of unworthiness," regardless of material wealth or accomplishments. Relying on many personal stories from her practice, Patenaude examines the childhood experiences and cultural views of gender, work and religion that, she says, create a "blueprint" for endlessly trying to become enough. But everyone is actually born "enough," she contends, with "a soul that is nameless and faceless and has a purpose." Uncovering and following this "true original blueprint" for each person's life promises "health, well-being, joy, peace, love, happiness, wisdom and fulfillment." With several comprehensive exercises for readers to work through, Patenaude offers an engaging mix of psychology and spirituality, as well as a gentle, intelligent voice of hope and encouragement for "getting off the merry-go-round" of one common belief that, apparently, has far-reaching effects.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Element Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1862042705
• ISBN 13: 9781862042704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296