Psychotherapist Joyce Patenaude draws upon more than 20 years of experience to examine how the core belief of a person's own inadequacy originates and takes hold, telling how it develops into a multitude of limiting beliefs that form a blueprint of personal reality.
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Despite its title, this isn't yet another directive to simplify one's daily life. The subtitle more aptly expresses psychotherapist Patenaude's message that inner convictions create a person's life, and that altering one will transform the other. She clearly illustrates how beliefs beget feelings, which in turn produce behavior, and she identifies the "core belief" underlying all others as a universal human sense of "not-enoughness," a "basic feeling of unworthiness," regardless of material wealth or accomplishments. Relying on many personal stories from her practice, Patenaude examines the childhood experiences and cultural views of gender, work and religion that, she says, create a "blueprint" for endlessly trying to become enough. But everyone is actually born "enough," she contends, with "a soul that is nameless and faceless and has a purpose." Uncovering and following this "true original blueprint" for each person's life promises "health, well-being, joy, peace, love, happiness, wisdom and fulfillment." With several comprehensive exercises for readers to work through, Patenaude offers an engaging mix of psychology and spirituality, as well as a gentle, intelligent voice of hope and encouragement for "getting off the merry-go-round" of one common belief that, apparently, has far-reaching effects.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Dr. Joyce Nelson Patenaude is a licensed psychotherapist supporting major changes in the lives of her clients. She has been in private practice for more than twenty years. She lectures and conducts seminars, workshops and retreats in the fields of mind/body healing, psychology, emotional health, women's emotional health issues and healthy relationships. She lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband, Andre.
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If you've been a self-help junkie who has read and tried everything, attended every seminar, etc., and still looking for answers, then this is it. If you're just starting out, then you'll save yourself a TON of time and energy. This gets right to the core of what keeps us from our happiness and potential in a direct and powerful way. I'm going to send this to everyone I know. Thank you Dr. Patenaude!!
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I highly recommend this book to anyone who is tired of struggling with the question of how to fix what is wrong with you, and would welcome the opportunity to relax into the joy of finding out that you are already all that you need to be! Dr. Patenaude believes that everyone is capable of having a fulfilled and fulfilling life, and the key to having this fulfilled life is to find your way back to your "original self". Dr. Patenaude offers many examples of how we become trapped in old and detrimental behaviors that act to sabotage us by providing vignettes from her client base as well as referencing her own struggles toward her original self. The book is more than just explanations and advice - practical exercises have been provided to assist us in finding our way back. It's a great book, highly readable, highly effective!.
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- Too Tired to Keep Running, Too Scared to Stop: Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life by Joyce A. Patenaude in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples by Harville Hendrix on page 113, and page 262
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