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Want to Be Happier? Reparent Yourself.
The right to pursue
happiness is the most personal of all of our inalienable rights.
Unfortunately, many people experience difficulty in this pursuit due to
flawed psychological life-programming they received during their
formative years. This programming often came from well-meaning parents or
parent substitutes. People who receive this type of programming
frequently develop characteristics which prevent them from either
pursuing or attaining consistent happiness in their lives. However, a
simple strategy to remedy this situation is available for the millions of
adults—including senior citizens—who wish to enjoy greater or more
sustained happiness.
In It’s Never Too Late to Be Happy: Reparenting
Yourself for Happiness (Quill Driver Books, $12.95), Muriel James,
coauthor of the 4-million-copy best-seller Born to Win, presents a
clear, layman-friendly self-reparenting program
through which the reader can actually create a new internal parent—one
which is fully functional, supporting, encouraging, and loving—to replace
the old parent figure, whose negative psychological messages consistently
thwart one’s hopes for happiness. Interestingly, the “parent figures”
that James identifies as the molders of a child’s personality include not
only one’s real parents (or stepparents, foster parents, grandparents),
but also those influential adults outside of one’s family who also affect
personality development, both in childhood and in later years, such as
teachers, bosses, mentors, and coaches.
In the field of psychology, self-reparenting is
recognized as a highly effective strategy for pursuing happiness.
Thousands of people worldwide have used it successfully to discover what
went wrong in childhood and throughout their lives that restricted their
freedom to succeed and be happy to move from discontenment
to happiness—in effect reparenting themselves
for a fuller, happier life.
Muriel James, marriage counselor, therapist, international lecturer,
consultant in human communications, and pioneer in Transactional
Analysis, has an impressive track record in assisting her clients to
achieve greater degrees of happiness and success. Her 19 books,
translated into 26 languages, have touched the lives of millions.
It’s Never Too Late to Be Happy presents coherent, straightforward
insights into how personality is developed during a person’s early years,
how parents use and misuse the parenting skills that influence
personality, how children react to negative or inconsistent messages, and
many other issues that work together to prohibit both satisfaction and
happiness in later life. Combined with chapter by chapter self-analysis
exercises, these insights will lead any reader through the reparenting process which will invariably lead to
greatly increased happiness—at any age.
It’s Never Too Late to Be Happy: Reparenting
Yourself for Happiness by Muriel James (Quill Driver Books, $12.95,
ISBN 1-884956-26-2), is available at local bookstores, from online
bookstores, or from the publisher at (800) 497-4909.
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