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Self-Sabotage: How To Stop It & Soar To Success

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I almost didn't buy this book. I saw buzzwords like "inner child" and "saboteur" and references to "transactional analysis" (which I knew nothing about, but somehow had an aversion to) ... but I bought the book anyway. I've been "reorganized" out of my job of 20 years, and wanted to see if some suspicions about my sabotaging myself held up. Well, they did ... and Ms. Baldwin explained why, and explained how to stop. She also explained, with more clarity than I've seen before, the difference/sameness between individuals and partners in a loving relationship. I also wish I had had this book as I was trying to be the best parent I could be. There's a lot of wisdom here.

Thought provoking and insightful, Self-Sabotage: How to Stop it & Soar to Success, is a novel of action. This book includes a workbook, encouraging self-examination through writing at the close of each chapter. I strongly recommend this book.

At the risk of empowering the author's "Inner Critic" to beat the bejeezus out of her "Inner Child," this book is awful. Those who do not have serious mental and emotional issues will find it useless, and those who do may find it damaging. This book offers few to no actual examples of self-sabotaging behavior (other than the catch-all self-sabotage of "listening to your inner critic") nor does it offer concrete recommendations on how to stop or avoid such behaviors (other than "don't listen to your inner critic"). Unless you're into really stupid pop-psych self-examination exercises, you will find nothing here. Don't waste your time.

Mindless drivel. Ouch.

I am intelligent, good looking, and reasonably wise - yet I keep taking actions both personally and professionally that sabotage my own success. "Bathing in white light and imagining dark arrows coming at me..." is less than helpful in understanding and redirecting the sinister nature of recurring self-defeat.

It's more likely that I get more goodies and connection (in the form of sympathy and compassion) from those who are close.

This is pop-psych gone bad.