45 reviews for:

Reinventing Your Life: How to Break Free from Negative Life Patterns and Feel Good Again

Janet S. Klosko, Jeffrey E. Young

4.09 AVERAGE

enilaa's review against another edition

4.0

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

pilichiwhite's review

5.0

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

diana_eliana's review

4.5

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

books_before_sunset's review

4.0

informative reflective slow-paced

teenytardigrade's review

5.0

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I highly recommend this to anyone who's experienced, or is experiencing fundamental frustrations, depression, emotional insecurity or anxiety in life, love and work. Reading this book was hugely enlightening, validating, if not tiring. If reading this to analyse and start addressing issues in your life, it will take mental and emotional work. Committing to improving such deeply ingrained patterns and behaviours takes effort, time and perseverance.

It's worth it.

It's helped me understand a few things about myself that I hadn't yet been able to stitch together, and things about my childhood. It's helped me better understand other people, as well as my interactions and experiences with them.

I will definitely come back to this regularly, to reaffirm some things and to (re)cast off others. It's a keeper. (I might put a different cover on it though ;)

scribepub's review against another edition

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Several of the most painful petards upon which people become hoisted during an unhappy childhood are neatly dispatched here by two cognitive therapists, who attack 11 common ‘lifetraps’ — destructive patterns that underlie a variety of emotional problems. Young and Klosko ably demonstrate how to deal with issues of abandonment, dependence, trust, social rejection, emotional deprivation, failure and vulnerability. They provide meaningful case histories, perceptive descriptions, diagnostic tests and a variety of nugget-sized, easily understood lists detailing the causes, danger signs and effects of negative impulses and actions, as well as ways to short-circuit them.
Publishers Weekly

Using illustrations from case studies, the authors describe each lifetrap, discuss its origins in childhood experience, and provide a questionnaire for self-assessment. They then offer a program for change using techniques ranging from experiential (getting in touch with your inner child) to cognitive (writing a ‘case’ against your lifetrap) and behavioural (identifying specific behaviours to be changed).
Library Journal

carolyngrace's review against another edition

3.5

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

crochetplush's review against another edition

3.25

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

asiaa's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

lydnt94's review

5.0

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced