Synopses & Reviews
"Am I meant to be with my partner?" "Why can't I lose weight?" "Should I stay at this job?" "I need to talk to someone, but therapy takes too long and costs too much."
Wouldn't it be great to find a solid, reliable method for tackling your own personal, social, and professional issues and bringing true, positive change to your life right now? Here it is!
In Get a Grip, clinical psychologist and advice columnist Belisa Vranich helps you jump-start your transformation with a remarkable fourteen-day program of self-action and self-therapy. Guiding you through the process of keeping a daily journal, as if you were speaking to a therapist, she shows you how to find answers that heal and inspire change. Soon you'll be noticing recurring themes, breaking unproductive patterns, and getting yourself moving in the right direction.
Using a powerful combination of tough love and proven, traditional therapeutic techniques, this life-changing program:
Helps you determine the best course of action to achieve your goals and desires
Includes the twenty most commonly asked questions during a therapy session and shows you how to address them head-on
Challenges you, in incremental measures, to dig deeper
Shows you how to vent productively and problem-solve your own emotional issues
Provides methods and techniques to help you overcome plateaus and inertia and bring lasting change into your life
In two short weeks, you'll know yourself better than ever before. You'll develop instincts and intuition to help you make difficult choices, set and pursue your goals with confidence and skill, and understand what you really need from your closest relationships. You'll also learn how to use self-therapy every time you face a problem that involves your heart, soul, spirit, emotions, mind, brain, relationships, or ambitions and aspirations.
Don't wait any longer to start getting the most out of life. Take hold of Get a Grip and find the tools you need to begin building the new you today!
Synopsis
Learn how to change your life for the better-in just two weeks!
Everyone has things about themselves they'd like to change, relationships they'd like to be smoother, or something in the past they'd like to be more at peace with, but it's not always easy to know what to do or how to get started. Now clinical psychologist and advice columnist Belisa Vranich helps you jumpstart transformation with a remarkable 14-day program of self-action and self-therapy. She motivates you to start your own serious self-examination, get out of your individual ruts, and get moving in the right direction. Get a Grip will give you the means to answer the big questions you are grappling with or the specific ones that are gnawing away at you every day (e.g., Am I meant to be with my partner? Why can't I lose weight? Should I stay at this job?). If all the answers come from within, as long as you are asked the right questions, you can answer and resolve them by yourself!
With a combination of traditional therapy techniques and the author's ""tough love"" mantra, this book offers on-the-go treatment and the keys to emotional problem solving for your own challenges and lingering hang-ups. The book
- Helps you determine the best course of action to achieve your goals and desires
- Includes the top twenty most commonly asked questions during a therapy session-and how to tackle them head-on
- Challenges you, in incremental measures, to dig deeper
- Shows you how to vent productively and problem solve your own emotional issues
- Shows how to overcome plateaus and inertia to bring lasting change into your life
If you're through with quick fixes that fizzle or feel that expensive therapy sessions aren't for you, there is another way. Take charge of your life now with Get a Grip-and get started on the path to a happier, less stressed, and more balanced new you.
Synopsis
It takes only two short weeks to make real changes that last a lifetime!
"Get a Grip is a little like sitting down with a great therapist. You start listening to yourself and understanding your story, and then you have the power to make the next chapters really powerful. This book delivers different insights to every reader, because it will get to the heart of every reader."
—Keith Ablow, MD, psychiatrist and Fox News contributor
"How refreshing, a self-help book that doesn't suck. You don't get labeled, blamed, or scolded. Dr. Vranich actually 'talks' to you through the book, and you feel supported in the process."
—Joanne Kimes, author of Dating Sucks: What to Do When Your Love Life Makes You Miserable
"In a rut? Lost your momentum? Sounds as though it's time to jump-start your life. Grab a copy of Get a Grip. Dr. Vranich's practical guide offers helpful self-administered techniques that will get you back into the driver's seat of your life."
—Lawrence Balter, Ph.D., author of Who's in Control?: Dr. Balter's Guide to Discipline without Combat and editor of Parenthood in America
"If you are looking for the answer, you have to ask the right question. Get a Grip does just that! Dr. Belisa guides you to ask yourself the questions that will lead you to some very important realizations."
—Patricia Moreno, President and CEO, IntenSati, and named "Best Fitness Instructor" by Allure magazine and New York magazine
Synopsis
Learn how to change your life for the better-in just two weeks!
Everyone has things about themselves they'd like to change, relationships they'd like to be smoother, or something in the past they'd like to be more at peace with, but it's not always easy to know what to do or how to get started. Now clinical psychologist and advice columnist Belisa Vranich helps you jumpstart transformation with a remarkable 14-day program of self-action and self-therapy. She motivates you to start your own serious self-examination, get out of your individual ruts, and get moving in the right direction. Get a Grip will give you the means to answer the big questions you are grappling with or the specific ones that are gnawing away at you every day (e.g., Am I meant to be with my partner? Why can't I lose weight? Should I stay at this job?). If all the answers come from within, as long as you are asked the right questions, you can answer and resolve them by yourself!
With a combination of traditional therapy techniques and the author's "tough love" mantra, this book offers on-the-go treatment and the keys to emotional problem solving for your own challenges and lingering hang-ups. The book
- Helps you determine the best course of action to achieve your goals and desires
- Includes the top twenty most commonly asked questions during a therapy session-and how to tackle them head-on
- Challenges you, in incremental measures, to dig deeper
- Shows you how to vent productively and problem solve your own emotional issues
- Shows how to overcome plateaus and inertia to bring lasting change into your life
If you're through with quick fixes that fizzle or feel that expensive therapy sessions aren't for you, there is another way. Take charge of your life now with Get a Grip-and get started on the path to a happier, less stressed, and more balanced new you.
About the Author
Dr. Belisa Vranich is an established clinical psychologist and media personality. She is the former advice columnist for the New York Daily News and the current advice columnist for the Huffington Post. She is a regular guest on Good Morning America, the Today show, CNN with Anderson Cooper and Paula Zahn, Fox and Friends, Fox News, CNBC, and Inside Edition. Vranich has been widely published in outlets such as Jane magazine, Latina magazine, America Online, and the New York Post. She has also been profiled in several national magazines and lectures nationwide.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Introduction Lost Your Grip?
Day One How Self-Analysis Works.
Day Two Venting: Let It All Hang Out.
Day Three So . . . Tell Me About Your Childhood.
Day Four Fantasy and Feedback.
Day Five You’ve Got Mail.
Day Six Intermission: Breakdown or Breakthrough?
Day Seven Look Back, Then Look Forward.
Day Eight Internal and External Practical Work: Steps to Get There.
Day Nine One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Mechanics of Change.
Day Ten Myths, Lies, and Straight-Out Silliness.
Day Eleven Somewhere over the Rainbow?
Day Twelve Inertia and Momentum.
Day Thirteen The Fast Track.
Day Fourteen Happily Ever After?
Epilogue Keeping Your Grip.
References.
Index.