I May Have Pushed Your Buttons, But I Didn't Install Them: 52 Pieces of Practical Wisdom to Live and Love Effectively - Softcover

Swantkowski PhD, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798986052311

Publisher: Sfumato Press, 2024

Synopsis

Are you struggling to feel effective in your life and relationships? Do you feel that you are waiting for life to begin, are no longer in the driver's seat, or are unmotivated to make necessary changes?

In I May Have Pushed Your Buttons, But I Didn't Install Them, Jennifer Swantkowski, drawing from her three decades of experience in the therapist's chair, provides simple yet thought-provoking and invaluable insights to help her readers slow down, reclaim a sense of agency and infuse their work, play and relationships with meaning and purpose.

Through anecdotes and recollections from working with clients as well as her own personal journey, Buttons provides the reader with 52 profound and concise pearls of practical wisdom that are presented in a straightforward narrative.

Woven throughout this collection of vignettes and observations is the recurring theme of personal responsibility and holding ourselves accountable for our predispositions, attitudes, and mindsets and how they affect our perceptions about adversity, success, love, and life. Most importantly, readers will appreciate this book for its simple and memorable takeaways; easily recalled when their own choices get in their way of living and loving effectively.

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer Swantkowski, PhD, is a coach, consultant, and mentor who works with clients worldwide, focusing on issues such as personal goals and accountability, anxiety, early recovery, and building effective and resilient relationships. Jennifer earned her Master's degree at the University of Houston and her doctorate at Smith College in Northampton, MA. During her career, she served as a clinician at two world-renowned psychiatric hospitals, the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA, and The Menninger Clinic in Houston, TX. She has also taught at the graduate level at Smith College, the University of Houston, and Boston College. She resides in Houston, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sfumato Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798986052311
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226