Take Control of Your Life

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Chances are, you’ve already had run-ins with your Outer Child — the self-sabotaging, bungling, and impulsive part of your personality. This misguided, hidden nemesis blows your diet, overspends, and ruins your love life. Your Outer Child acts out and fulfills your legitimate childlike needs and wants in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in counterproductive ways: It goes for immediate gratification and the quick fix in spite of your best-laid plans.

Now, in a revolutionary rethinking of the link between emotion and behavior, veteran psychotherapist Susan Anderson offers a three-step program to tame your Outer Child’s destructive behavior. This dynamic, transformational set of strategies — action steps that act like physical therapy for the brain — calms your Inner Child, strengthens your Adult Self, releases you from the self-blame and shame at the root of Outer Child issues, and paves new neural pathways that can lead to more productive behavior. The result is happiness, fulfillment, self-mastery, and self-love.

Part I: Getting to Know Your Outer Child
Chapter 1: Introducing Your Outer Child
Chapter 2: Three Parts of the Personality
Chapter 3: Exposing Your Outer Child

Part II: The Outer Child Program
Chapter 4: Outer Child and Your Abandonment Issues
Chapter 5: Outer Child and Your Self-Esteem
Chapter 6: Outer Child and Your Future
Chapter 7: Outer Child and Your Past
Chapter 8: Outer Child, Your Stress and Trauma

Part III: Special Applications
Chapter 9: Outer Child and Diet
Chapter 10: Outer Child and Procrastination
Chapter 11: Outer Child and Love Relationships
Chapter 12: Outer Child and Losing Passion
Chapter 13: Outer Child and Feeling Unbeloved
Chapter 14: Outer Child and Debt
Chapter 15: Outer Child and Clutter
Chapter 16: Outer Child and Depression
Conclusion: Living a Conscious Life

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