Addicted to Unhappiness: Free Yourself from Moods and Behaviors That Undermine Relationships, Work, and the Life You Want
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Author: Martha Heineman Pieper
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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ISBN 10: 0071433694
ISBN 13: 978-0071433693
Drawing upon their years of counseling experience, the bestselling author team of Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D. and William J. Pieper, M.D. explain how parenting styles based on discipline and excessive expectations condition children to equate unhappiness with love. This often persists into adulthood, leading to behaviors including eating disorders, compulsive gambling, disastrous romantic choices, substance abuse, and more. This book supplies readers with powerful tools, including self-assessments, checklists, diaries, and exercises, to overcome their need for unhappiness.
From the Publisher
Martha H. Pieper, Ph.D., and William J. Pieper, M.D. (Chicago, IL) coauthored the bestselling Smart Love. They have been in private practice for more than 25 years. Both have pursued clinical research at the University of Chicago and other prestigious academic and professional institutions.
From the Inside Flap
If you have difficulty keeping resolutions, fight with those you care about, are in the power of substance abuse, or find it hard to rebound emotionally from upsetting events, you may be suffering from an addiction to unhappiness. Fortunately, the power to improve the most meaningful aspects of your life always remains in your own hands with Addicted to Unhappiness as your guide.
Like so many others who struggle to better their lives, you have probably made repeated attempts at improvement that never resulted in lasting change. Best-selling author team Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D. and William J. Pieper, M.D. apply their years of psychotherapeutic work with children, adolescents, and adults to show you that before you can live the life you want it helps to recognize and understand the internal struggles that stand in your way. You'll discover how to overcome your addiction and achieve a stable sense of inner balance and happiness.
Both optimistic and realistic, Addicted to Unhappiness focuses equally on effective strategies for positive change and on combating the forces that oppose self-improvement. The authors guide you through getting started I(even when you don't feel like it), coping with episodes of backsliding, keeping your resolve when it starts to evaporate, and thinking of yourself as a recovering addict to unhappiness.
The Piepers offer a lifelong program to guide you through the journey to self-fulfillment. You'll learn how to transform those inevitable moments when you lose momentum into opportunities for growth and long-term success. You will discover that backsliding is actually part of the healing process rather than a reason to feel upset and discouraged.
Start getting more pleasure out of life. Addicted to Unhappiness arms you with the knowledge to change your life for the better, and forever.
From the Back Cover
Are YOU Addicted to Unhappiness?
Are you unable to follow through on important resolutions?
Are you frustrated or inefficient at work?
Is your love life unrewarding or filled with conflict?
Are you plagued by unpleasant emotions for no apparent reason?
Is your life ruled by substance abuse, gambling, or other addictions?
Is your life restricted by compulsions, phobias, or obsessions? Everyone is born with the potential to live fulfilled lives, but many of us find it difficult to realize that potential. Now the best-selling author team of Drs. Martha Heineman Pieper and William J. Pieper help you understand how you may have unknowingly become an addict to unhappiness. Using real-life examples drawn from their clinical experience, the authors provide insights and effective strategies that will help you choose and maintain the happiness you deserve. Optimistic--and realistic--
Addicted to Unhappiness will help you discover:
- The origins of your addiction and ways it interferes with your life
- A step-by-step plan to kick your habit
- How to turn setbacks into victories
- The ability to move beyond relationship conflicts and embrace closeness
- Effective ways to get control over painful moods
- A successful approach to achieving a healthy weight and a fit body
. . .And much more to help you break free from discomfort and hold on to happiness.
About the Author
Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D., and William J. Pieper, M.D. (Chicago, IL) coauthored the bestselling parenting book Smart Love: The Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Regulating, and Enjoying Your Child. They have been in private practice for more than 35 years. Both have pursued clinical research at the University of Chicago and other prestigious academic and professional institutions. Martha Heineman Pieper recently wrote her first children's book, Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream! The book is based on the principles of Smart Love and entertains children while at the same time it helps them understand and master their bad dreams. It also provides parents with loving and effective strategies for responding to children who wake them in the night with bad dreams.
