Excess Baggage: Getting Out of Your Own Way

Judith Sills

ISBN 10: 0142004197 / ISBN 13: 9780142004197

Published by Penguin Putnam Inc, 2003

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Maybe you always have to finish what you start--from a book to a dismal marriage. Or your mother is always there when you need her--but sometimes you wish she had somewhere else to go. Each of us has a little too much of our own good thing--it's excess baggage that's holding us back.   As Judith Sills says in this exceptionally wise and refereshingly pragmatic book, everyone has baggage. It's the aspect of your personality that keeps getting in your way. Excess Baggage shines a light on our blind spots, defining five common obstacles to happiness that we create:    * We need to be right    * We feel superior    * We dread rejection    * We create drama    * We cherish our anger Life doesn't have to be so hard. Using easy-to-follow but powerful psychological excercises, Dr. Sills helps you discover just what it is about yourself that keeps you from getting what you want. Then you can set your excess baggage down foerever--and get out of your own way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Excess Baggage: Getting Out of Your Own Way
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0142004197
• ISBN 13: 9780142004197
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Maybe you always have to finish what you start—from a book to a dismal marriage. Or your mother is always there when you need her—but sometimes you wish she had somewhere else to go. Each of us has a little too much of our own good thing—it's excess baggage that's holding us back.

 

As Judith Sills says in this exceptionally wise and refereshingly pragmatic book, everyone has baggage. It's the aspect of your personality that keeps getting in your way.

Excess Baggage shines a light on our blind spots, defining five common obstacles to happiness that we create:

   • We need to be right
   • We feel superior
   • We dread rejection
   • We create drama
   • We cherish our anger

Life doesn't have to be so hard. Using easy-to-follow but powerful psychological excercises, Dr. Sills helps you discover just what it is about yourself that keeps you from getting what you want. Then you can set your excess baggage down foerever—and get out of your own way.

About the Author

Judith Sills, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who for the last decade has appeared regularly on such national television shows as Oprah, Sally Jessy Raphaël, and NBC News. She is a contributing editor to Family Circle, the largest-circulation women’s magazine in America, and also writes for O, The Oprah Magazine.