Product Description Someone pushes your buttons . . . you feel rage . . . fear . . . sweaty palms . . . unbidden tears . . . you feel like a kid . . .
We've all experienced moments when we lose control of a situation and ourselves. Now, in Growing Yourself Back Up, the first book to explain the idea of emotional regression to the general reader, bestselling author John Lee identifies the circumstances that cause these seemingly uncontrollable feelings and shows how they are directly tied to our experience as children.
No adult, explains Lee, need ever experience the helpless feelings of childhood again. Here are his proven methods and visualization exercises, developed in his popular workshops, for recognizing, preventing, and diffusing regression in ourselves and others. He teaches, for example, that adults cannot be abandoned, they can only be left; if we're feeling abandoned we're regressing. He also reminds us that no matter how overwhelmed we are, adults always have options; if we believe we don't, we're in a regression.
Growing Yourself Back Up will show you how to: * develop strong emotional boundaries and convey them to others * learn the Detour Method that reverses regression * confront without regressing * communicate with the authority figures who push your buttons * minimize regression at family functions
Lee offers hope--as well as practical strategies that work--for conquering those childlike feelings of powerlessness that are almost always rooted in regression.
Growing Up August 3, 2008 So much good information in such a small book. A fast easy read. It's uncomplicated - and helps you uncomplicate your life as you acknowledge your own issues and release yourself from the negative impact they have had on your life. I read this book and my relationship made so much sense all of a sudden. I read the book outloud with my husband over a vacation - in snipits, we took turns reading, evaluating and digesting the information. Very quickly we were able to get past a pile of crap and get on th real healing conversation. A tiny investment with huge results.
Excellent Read November 4, 2007 I have read several books on human behavior, spiritiual growth, and many research reports on psychology. This book is truly amazing in that it has answered, as well as identified something for me that I always felt, but could never really identify exactly what was going on. I had spoken to some people about "feeling like a kid" in certain instances, but for many many years, I never had anyone speak of regression. This book is absolutely identifies things that we can do to eliminate subconscious behaviors and feelings, and act like the adults we are. Excellent Book!
Excellent book November 1, 2007 Has really helped me get a hold of dealing not only with my own regression but also other people's regression. Has made my life a whole lot easier to deal with by managing my environment and those people in it.
A True "Stroke of Genius" January 27, 2007 Never in my many years of therapy nor reading various self-help books have I ever ran across the likes that this gem of a book offers. The insight is truly amazing and is spoken from a perspective of one whom has - through the arduous process of elimination - able to discern the REAL heart of the matter that so many of us deal with - primarily on an unconscious level and convey the lessons in a friendly and easy to read format. I am already "catching myself" in the throes of regression as it is happening and it is making all the difference in the world to me.....(and that's only based on the Intro and Chapter 1.) My only regret is that I wasn't aware of this book many years ago!!! A MUST READ for anyone serious about changing the same ole, same ole dynamics in their life!!!
Read this book if you want to understand yourself and others for the first time ever January 11, 2007 I just wanted to say that John Lee did a great job on this book. It is a small little tome but it is packed with helpful and insightful information that helped me understand not only myself but my crazy husband and mother! It is one of those "ah-ha" type of books, where every paragraph made you gasp and grab your pen and underline an idea. My husband read this book and it helped him a ton with his "abandoned little boy" issues; it's done more for him than two years' of therapy. However, it is definitely a book you want to keep and re-read a couple of times, because you just can't absorb all of the information in it in one attempt. I want my husband to go and visit Lee next; I've heard he's even better in one-on-one therapy sessions.
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