Living Better with Yourself : A Practical Guide to Embodied Growth

Embark upon a journey of embodied self-development that enables you to live better with yourself.

Living Better With Yourself is a practical guide to help you increase your awareness of how you currently experience your life and incorporates different psychological and body-focused approaches. Acting as your personal journal, this book offers you the opportunity to better understand how your past has impacted your own development and provides you with numerous exercises to further your personal growth. It combines key psychological insight with tools to help you integrate different parts of yourself, while using your body as the primary way of bringing about change.

Living Better With Yourself includes:

• 180 exercises to get to know yourself better and grow further in an embodied way
• Space to write and sketch while journaling your personal journey
• Over 50 audio files to guide you through a number of the exercises
• A trauma-informed perspective to better understand why we act and feel the way we do in difficult circumstances
• Key insight into 10 main areas of the human experience, namely the emotions of fear, anger, shame and guilt, the balance between thinking and feeling, the inner critical voice and 'should' statements, the need for control and safety, the 'good' and 'not-so-good' sides of oneself, and self-esteem.

This book is also an excellent resource for professionals accompanying others in their personal development.