Emotional First aid : : Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Self-Help / General / Winch, Guy
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Rejection : the emotional cuts and scrapes of daily life -- Loneliness : relationship muscle weakness -- Loss and trauma : walking on broken bones -- Guilt : the poison in our system -- Rumination : picking at emotional scabs -- Failure : how emotional chest colds become psychological pneumonias -- Low self-esteem : weak emotional immune systems -- Conclusion : create your personal psychological medicine cabinet.
Explains the long-term fallout that can result from seemingly minor emotional and psychological injuries and offers concrete, easy-to-use exercises backed up by hard cutting-edge science to aid in recovery.

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Just Okay submitted by purplewaves on July 23, 2019, 3:48pm The author takes a strong CBT, "your thoughts are the problem" approach to psychology. This isn't a surprise given the field's current landscape, but if it's something that can't work for your situation, or simply doesn't mesh with you as a person, then this book isn't super helpful. While I like the idea of taking care of your mental self as well as you'd take care of your physical self, the author came off as a tad creepy (and considerably fatphobic) when describing one patient in particular as going "from heavy to bombshell" after weight loss. He then blames her newfound hesitancy in dating men who would've been rude to her a few months and x pounds ago as a "personal problem" she simply had to overcome, rather than valuable insight into how people treat one another and what sorts of partners to pass up. That's a no from me, Dr. Guy.