Monday, September 15, 2008
Welcome Readers, old and new … it’s Spring in the Southern Hemisphere!
Time for that famous phrase “spring clean” – making sure things are not just tidied away or half-done, but thoroughly cleaned out ready for summer.
Do you want to lose weight, a little or lots?
Do you want to stop feeling guilty, or ‘out of control’ [...]
One of the biggest aspects of self-help is most certainly safety and it’s opposite, danger.
A huge chunk of psychiatry is taken up with the manifestations of this issue – anxiety, phobias, worry, self-confidence issues, paranoias, anger, violence.
A patient of mine gave me the trememdous gift of introducing me to a man who specializes in helping [...]
This is the first full book review I have ever done on this blog. I am delighted that it is a review for this book, because “I Can Make You Thin” makes an historic contribution to weight loss and being naturally thin, and also to the entire field of self-help.
For almost 2 years now I [...]
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I ended Part 1 of this series by asking when someone might WANT to have anorexia.
When might you actually want to be repulsed by the thought of eating food?
Put another way, could anorexia ever be “useful”?
Well it is a standard question that I have asked of every so-called problem that I have been told about [...]
Most people have never heard of a Forcing Function, because it’s not commonly thought of as a self-help principle.
However of the 1001 reasons you might want more willpower, my claim to you is that almost always willpower is the wrong tool for the job.
On some of these occasions a Forcing Function will do much better.
But [...]
Sunday, November 18, 2007
One of the reasons I wanted this web-site to be about self help rather than psychiatry, psychology or therapy, is because much of what people actually have as problems and limitations is not covered in the textbooks.
This is slowly changing however.
Psychiatry is finding labels for more and more, whether by extending current labels, such as [...]
One of the basic assumptions in any self help process has to be that you can assess yourself.
However when a survey shows that 60% of drivers on the road think they have above average driving skills, this is not an assumption that can be taken for granted.
How well do you assess your own performance, in [...]