WHO'S REALLY RUNNING YOUR LIFE?
 Free Your Self from Custody,
 and Guard Your Kids

By Peter Gerlach, MSW
Member NSRC Experts Council

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        This is the guidebook for self-improvement Lesson 1 in this Website. Based on three decades of clinical experience, it outlines how to assess for inherited psychological wounds and reduce them. Widespread social problems strongly suggest that well over half of average U.S. adults like you have significant inner wounds and unawareness - and they (you) don't know it or what it means. The fourth edition of this book is now available in hardback, softback, and ebook formats.

        This unique book provides a clear, practical answers to questions like these:

• What are "psychological wounds" and how do they happen?

• What are personality subselves, false selves, and my "inner family"?

• What do psychological wounds mean to me, my loved ones, and descendants?

• How can I assess whether I or another person has significant wounds?

• What does psychological wounding look like in a typical family?

• How can people heal these wounds, and typically what happens when they do?

• Where can I find more information on this?

The book is for anyone wanting to improve their life, health, and relationships; and to protect their vul-nerable kids against inheriting the lethal [wounds + ignorance] cycle.  

Table of Contents

Preface..................................................................................	9
Acknowledgements ................................................................	13
Introduction ...........................................................................	15
PART 1 - Your Inner Family
1) Our false-self legacy ........................................................	29
2) Your many-sided personltiy..............................................	34
3) Meet your inner family .....................................................	46
4) The effects of false-self dominance ....................................	72
PART 2 - Recovery
5) Overview: recovery from psychological wounds..........................	95
6) Recovery: inner-family (parts) work ....................................	133
7) Basic parts-work techniques ...........................................	172
8) Special parts-work techniques ............................................	198
9) Typical recovery phases, steps, and results .....................	228
PART 3 - Wound-assessment Worksheets
A) 28 Traits of high-nurturance families ...................................	257
B) Behavioral traits of wounded people...................................	267
C) Scan Your family tree for clues ........................................	274
D) Traits of high-nurturance group members.............................	281
Worksheets E-J): premises and directions	285
E) Symptoms of false-self dominance ...................................	288
F) Symptoms of excessive shame and guilt...........................	293
G) Symptoms of excessive fears..........................................	359
H) Symptoms of excessive dis/trust ......................................	299
I ) Symptoms of reality distortion.........................................	304
J) Symptoms of an Inability to bond or love..........................	312
K) Symptoms of codependence...........................	316
10) Using Your Assessment results.........................................	322
11) Summing up, and next steps ............................................	336
PART 4 - Resources
The Internet as a recovery resource .......................................	345
A Bill of Personal Rights .........................................................	350
The 12 Steps for recoverers ..................................................	356
Selected inspirations ..............................................................	361
Selected readings .................................................................	369
Index ....................................................................................	379

      I'd value any questions you have about the book or feedback on it, Lesson 1, and/or this non-profit educational Web site. I hope you find them clear, inspiring, and useful! Option - for more perspective, study the [wounds + unawareness] cycle that silently stresses many families like yours and is silently eroding our society.

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