Excess Baggage: Discover Which Ruling Passion is Weighing You Down! - Softcover

Sills, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0722528116 ISBN 13: 9780722528112

Publisher: Thorsons, 1993

Synopsis

The five most common ways people make their lives harder for themselves are: the need to be right, to feel superior, to create drama, to dread rejection, to hold onto anger. Excess baggage is the psychological baggage that people carry around with them. People are often unaware of their own baggage, although it is blindingly obvious to others. Everyone is dominated by one of five ruling passions - control, attachment, self-esteem, security, justice - which govern reactions, speech, behaviour, expectations, dreams, loves and hates. They are essentially "dysfunctional" pieces of personality which cause problems when allowed to get out of hand. This book examines the ins and outs of working out what the reader's ruling passion is, seeing how it affects life and relationships, understanding it, and then improving life by changing behaviour. The personality needn't be changed - just minimize the effect of it's excess baggage.

About this title

About the Author

Judith Sills, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who for the last decade has appeared regularly on such national television shows as Oprah, Sally Jessy Raphael, and NBC News. She is a contributing editor to Family Circle, the largest-circulation women s magazine in America, and also writes for O, The Oprah Magazine."

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0722528116
• ISBN 13: 9780722528112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288