Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

The completely updated edition of this classic includes powerful methods for freeing oneself from negative self-talk, self-defeating behaviors, and limiting beliefs

Your gremlin, that inner critic that narrates your life, interprets your every experience. He has nothing good to say about you or anything you do. Just when you feel you’ve out-argued him, he changes his strategy. Grapple with him and you become more enmeshed. What he hates is simply being noticed. That’s the first step to his taming. This and many other powerful techniques await you.

This is a low-key but tremendously effective approach to getting out of your own way and banishing the tenacious nemesis within. Readers will learn:

• How simply noticing their gremlin is the first step in gremlin taming.
• How to experiment playfully with new actions and attitudes.
• Simple exercises for tuning in to their true self and tuning out their gremlin…and much more.

Rick Carson's seminal work, Taming Your Gremlin^®, has been translated into several languages and has been a consistent seller since 1984. For thousands in a cross-section of cultures and circumstances, the Gremlin-Taming Method serves as a foundation for responding to everyday challenges and for living a satisfying life.

For over thirty-five years Rick has been a counselor, personal and executive coach, and trainer for mental health professionals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. His work is used in the training of psychotherapists, personal and executive coaches, substance abuse specialists, corrections personnel, teachers, corporate executives, clergy, and others. He is a former faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and a clinical member and approved supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

Rick is the founder of the Gremlin Taming Institute in Dallas, Texas.