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In this life-changing book, writer and spiritual coach Neal Allen, teaches us a stunning new method for quieting the inner critic.
"Better Days will help you get to know your inner critic, and quiet its yammering, and in so doing, get to know the person you were born to be." - Anne Lamott, Author of Dusk Night Dawn, Bird by Bird and others
What if your superego has it wrong?
That snarky little bully in your head...you know the one.
You've lived under its weight for decades.
I'm a fraud, I'm lazy
I need to work harder
I need to be tougher, funnier, calmer...
I need to stay quiet, look pretty, stop showing off
I need to put others before me, I need to put myself first
I need to be perfect
I need to hide who I really am
Sound familiar?
You know that its scolding voice is harmful to you, but you can't will it away. You accept a life with short periods of peace and long stretches of stress and anxiety. But you don't have to.
In this revolutionary new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, writer and spiritual coach, Neal Allen, examines a critical aspect of the human psyche that often gets ignored - the superego.
Building on Freud's idea that the superego necessarily forms a person's moral conscience, Neal explains how this voice in your head develops in childhood as a survival mechanism, but when no longer needed for protection, camps out in your mind like a personal parasite. A parasite that doesn't belong.
Through simple and engaging exercises and explorations, Neal leads you into meeting, confronting, and ultimately quieting your own inner critic.
By shedding off the burden of the superego, you can overcome tired patterns of reward and punishment, reduce the self-talk that harms you, and ultimately clear an open space for the life you deserve, one that is gentler and more peaceful.
Just imagine...if all that nasty, negative chatter in your head just evaporated ... what would you do next?
Better days are just ahead.
Contents
Chapter 1 - Hello, Parasite
Chapter 2 - First Grade: Paradise Lost
Chapter 3 - Meet Your Inner Critic
Chapter 4 - Confront Your Inner Critic
Chapter 5- Take Charge
Chapter 6 - Grow Up and Relax
Chapter 7 - Tame the Parasite
Chapter 8 - Follow Your Nose to Freedom
Chapter 9 - Civilization and Its Discontents
Chapter 10 - What Me Worry?
Chapter 11 - Enjoy Being Ordinary
Chapter 12 - I See You, Superego
Chapter 13 - Repeating Questions
Chapter 14 - Identify Your Defenses
Chapter 15 - Waste Your Time
Chapter 16 - God and Religion
Chapter 17 - Love
Chapter 18 - Better Days
Appendix: Reading Group Guide
