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Your Coping Skills Aren't Working

Move Beyond the Outdated, Ineffective Habits That Once Worked but Now Hold You Back
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Your Coping Skills Aren't Working by Richard Brouillette explores how childhood traumatic experiences shape maladaptive coping mechanisms that no longer serve us in adulthood. Drawing on cognitive behavioural therapy, schema therapy, and attachment theory, this guide helps readers identify and change self-sabotaging habits, giving voice to unmet needs and building clarity, security, and confidence. It empowers you to move beyond destructive patterns, enhancing personal growth and healthier relationships.
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This book is ideal for adults seeking self-improvement and healing from past trauma, especially those interested in cognitive behavioural and schema therapies. It suits readers aiming to understand and transform their coping mechanisms to foster healthier relationships and personal growth.

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It's time to move beyond the self-destructive coping "skills" that hold you back!

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It's time to move beyond the self-destructive coping "skills" that hold you back!

The coping styles we develop in childhood are often the result of stressful or traumatic experiences. While they once worked to keep us feeling safe, they do not serve us well in adulthood. Your Coping Skills Aren't Working offers an innovative and evidence-based approach grounded in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), schema therapy, and attachment theory to help you break free from the coping habits that keep you stuck in a cycle of self-sabotaging negative thoughts and behaviours.

In this eye-opening book, you'll identify the maladaptive coping patterns you developed in childhood, understand why you developed them, and learn how to change those destructive habits standing between you and a happier life. You'll also discover powerful strategies to help you give voice to your unmet needs, and learn to cultivate clarity, security, and confidence in yourself and what you need.

Dysfunctional coping styles are often the relics of damaging childhood experiences. But your past doesn't need to dictate your future. With this guide, you can finally get unstuck from the habits that hinder your personal growth, get in the way of healthy relationships, and keep you from reaching your highest potential.

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Praised for its profound insight and practical strategies, the book offers a user-friendly approach to healing the inner child and breaking free from destructive coping behaviours. Kathryn Rudlin, LCSW, commends its powerful therapeutic techniques and emotional resonance. Susan Simpson, ClinPsyD, highlights its inspiring methods to uproot entrenched self-sabotaging patterns, urging readers to discover healthier coping strategies.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781648480997

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 June 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Richard Brouillette, LCSW is a certified schema therapist working with entrepreneurs, creatives and activists who have plateaued and are trying to overcome anxiety, find fulfillment, and improve relationships. Richard has published in The New York Times, Salon and Psych Central. He is the Psychology Today Expert Opinion blogger of "Flipping Out: Changing Mindsets with Schema Therapy." He has a number of professional affiliations, and in 2020, Richard was elected Executive Board Secretary of the International Society for Schema Therapy.

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