Table Of ContentContents Introduction: An Epidemic of Nice People Section One: Nice Peope Chapter One: How to Make a Nice Person: The Enduring Effects of Anxious Attachment Chapter Two: A Natural History of the Nice Person Chapter Three: Pedestals, Altars, and Gilded Cages Section Two: The 7 Practices Chapter Four: Awareness Practice Chapter Five: Desert Practice Chapter Six: Warrior Practice Chapter Seven: Brotherhood and Sisterhood Practice Chapter Eight: Family Practice Chapter Nine: Disillusionment Pracitce Chapter Ten: Integration Practice Section Three: Romantic Relationships Chapter Eleven: The Transforming Relationship Chapter Twelve: Creative Conflict Chapter Thirteen: Union Chapter Fourteen: Stand by Your Transforming Man or Woman Epilogue Index About the Authors
SynopsisSeven powerful practices designed to bring about: resilient self-esteem, a happier and calmer emotional life, a reality-based optimism for the future, and satisfying relationships. Do you or someone you know: Apologize frequently or for things you are not responsible for? Get preoccupied with what other people think of you? Become unhappy when your partner isn't happy? Feel worried or fretful so often it seems normal? Often not know what you want? Constantly second-guess yourself? Chronic Niceness affects multitudes, causing severe anxiety and depression, crippling self-esteem, and undermining and destroying relationships. Anxious to Please reveals the primary psychological cause of Chronic Niceness: Anxious Attachment. Anxious Attachment drives the Nice Person to accommodate, acquiesce, and avoid conflict. Nice People take what they're given rather than asking for what they want, often sacrificing relationship, careers, and their own integrity. With this book, you'll learn seven tools for hope, healing, and transformation, ultimately setting you on the path to a less stressful and more peaceful life., Seven powerful practices designed to bring about- resilient self-esteem, a happier and calmer emotional life, a reality-based optimism for the future, and satisfying relationships. Do you or someone you know- Apologize frequently or for things you are not responsible for? Get preoccupied with what other people think of you? Become unhappy when your partner isn't happy? Feel worried or fretful so often it seems normal? Often not know what you want? Constantly second-guess yourself? Chronic Niceness affects multitudes, causing severe anxiety and depression, crippling self-esteem, and undermining and destroying relationships. Anxious to Please reveals the primary psychological cause of Chronic Niceness- Anxious Attachment. Anxious Attachment drives the Nice Person to accommodate, acquiesce, and avoid conflict. Nice People take what they're given rather than asking for what they want, often sacrificing relationship, careers, and their own integrity. With this book, you'll learn seven tools for hope, healing, and transformation, ultimately setting you on the path to a less stressful and more peaceful life., Do you (or does someone you know) Apologize frequently or for things you are not responsible for? Get preoccupied with what other people think of you? Become unhappy when your partner isn't happy? Feel worried or fretful so often it seems normal? Often not know what you want? Constantly second-guess yourself? Chronic Niceness affects multitudes, causing severe anxiety and depression, crippling self-esteem, and undermining and destroying relationships Anxious to Please reveals the primary psychological cause of Chronic Niceness--Anxious Attachment. Anxious Attachment drives the Nice Person to accommodate, acquiesce and avoid conflict. Nice People take what they're given rather than asking for what they want, often sacrificing relationship, careers and their own integrity. Anxious to Please presents seven powerful practices designed to bring about: resilient self-esteem; a happier and calmer emotional life; a reality-based optimism for the future; fulfilling sex; and satisfying relationships.