Incredibly interesting, relevant, and true!
The Bitch in Your Head
How to Finally Squash Your Inner Critic
Description
Do you ever find yourself thinking, how could you be so stupid, you look fat, or you’re a horrible mother? Are you afraid people will find out you’ve fooled them into thinking you're competent? If you’re guilty of expressing these types of discouraging messages, then you have a bitch in your head. This self-critical behavior can wreak havoc with your life—it can keep you from getting the love you want, the raise you deserve, or even a good night’s sleep.
Dr. Plumez began to notice a pattern with her patients being too hard on themselves. She found that gentler approaches didn’t work, but when she told them they were being a bitch—to themselves!—they finally recognized their self-defeating attitude and how much it was weighing them down.With this book, Dr. Plumez can help you banish the bitch. It identifies the different types of “bitches”—work, marriage, parenting, and so on—and provides effective tools and techniques to combat the forms of self-destruction described. Once you begin to encourage rather than criticize, you will find that your career, social life, and relationships almost magically improve.
Reviews
Whatever you call that nagging voice in your head, it won’t help you reach your goals. This book teaches you how to recognize and silence the inner critic who constantly undermines your self-esteem. Dr. Plumez combines a warm personal style with the sound professional strategies needed to cultivate positive self-talk. With greater awareness, you will learn to shift negative attitudes and become a kinder, more nurturing daily partner for yourself.
The Bitch in Your Head is important reading for mental health professionals and readers alike. Dr. Jacqueline Plumez brings to light a previously unaddressed area of irrational negative self-talk and presents the reader with the opportunity to reexamine this self-criticism and see themselves anew through the eyes of loving friend—a friend they can keep on their bookshelf and in their head.
Dr. Plumez is the mother and the therapist we all should have had. But at least we can have her book.
