{"product_id":"9781897238851","title":"Better Days","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this life-changing book, writer and spiritual coach Neal Allen, teaches us a stunning new method for quieting the inner critic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBetter Days will help you get to know your inner critic, and quiet its yammering, and in so doing, get to know the person you were born to be.\u003c\/i\u003e” - Anne Lamott, Author of \u003ci\u003eDusk Night Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBird by Bird\u003c\/i\u003e and others\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat if your superego has it wrong?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat snarky little bully in your head…you know the one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou’ve lived under its weight for decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI’m a fraud, I’m lazy\u003cbr\u003eI need to work harder\u003cbr\u003eI need to be tougher, funnier, calmer…\u003cbr\u003eI need to stay quiet, look pretty, stop showing off\u003cbr\u003eI need to put others before me, I need to put myself first\u003cbr\u003eI need to be perfect\u003cbr\u003eI need to hide who I really am\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSound familiar?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou know that its scolding voice is harmful to you, but you can't will it away. You accept a life with short periods of peace and long stretches of stress and anxiety. But you don't have to.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this revolutionary new book, \u003ci\u003eBetter Days: Tame Your Inner Critic\u003c\/i\u003e, writer and spiritual coach, Neal Allen, examines a critical aspect of the human psyche that often gets ignored - the superego.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding on Freud’s idea that the superego necessarily forms a person’s moral conscience, Neal explains how this voice in your head develops in childhood as a survival mechanism, but when no longer needed for protection, camps out in your mind like a personal parasite. A parasite that doesn’t belong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough simple and engaging exercises and explorations, Neal leads you into meeting, confronting, and ultimately quieting your own inner critic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy shedding off the burden of the superego, you can overcome tired patterns of reward and punishment, reduce the self-talk that harms you, and ultimately clear an open space for the life you deserve, one that is gentler and more peaceful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust imagine…if all that nasty, negative chatter in your head just evaporated ... what would you do next?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetter days are just ahead.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neal Allen","offers":[{"title":"Namaste Publishing |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-12-15","offer_id":44414011277567,"sku":"9781897238851","price":32.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f4410b40-2756-4fbd-87bb-70711c606ea6.jpg?v=1697660979","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781897238851","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}