Reinventing Your Life: the bestselling breakthrough programme to end negative behaviour & feel great

Reinventing Your Life sets out a programme designed to help you end self-destructive behaviours that can prevent you from living the life you want. It explores how unsatisfactory relationships, an irrational lack of self-esteem and persistent feelings of being unfulfilled may be linked to the messages people internalise over time.

Written by American psychologists Jeffrey E. Young, PhD, and Janet S. Klosko, PhD, the book draws on principles of cognitive therapy to help you recognise and change negative thought patterns without the aid of drugs or long-term traditional therapy. It introduces ‘lifetraps’ as self-defeating behaviour patterns, describes eleven common examples, and provides a diagnostic test for each. Step-by-step suggestions are included to support breaking the cycle and working towards greater happiness and a more fulfilling, productive life.

Key details

• Authors: Jeffrey E. Young, PhD, and Janet S. Klosko, PhD
• Based on principles of cognitive therapy
• Explains self-defeating patterns described as ‘lifetraps’
• Covers eleven common lifetraps
• Includes a diagnostic test and step-by-step suggestions for each lifetrap

Synopsis

The book focuses on changing the types of messages people internalise in order to address recurring problems such as unsatisfactory relationships, low self-esteem and feeling unfulfilled. It explains how ‘lifetraps’ can keep you stuck in self-defeating cycles, and sets out practical ways to recognise and change negative thought patterns. Using cognitive therapy principles, it offers diagnostic tests and structured, step-by-step suggestions intended to help you break free from these patterns.