Claim Your Inner Grown-up (Self-Maturity)

Author: Ashley Davis Prend
Publisher: Plume
Publication Date: 2001-06-01
Features: A much-needed antidote to the indulgent trends of recent years, Claim Your Inner Grown-up will help us become authentic adults without losing the innocence, freedom, and wonder that are also an integral part of our psychological makeup and help make us who we are. Many books have been written about our inner child. In Claim Your Inner Grown-up, psychotherapist Ashley Davis Prend stands this cultural phenomenon on its head by offering a revolutionary four-pillar program that dares us to become adults. Claim Your Inner Grown-up shows us how we can develop and improve our lives by becoming more mature, loving, responsible, and spiritual. By incorporating the four-step DARE thought system into our lives (Detach, Aware, Reorient, Enact), we can become happier and more productive in the long term. Prend's unique, liberating approach helps us to develop a solid sense of self without giving up the positive qualities that also distinguish us as individuals. In this wise, compassionate handbook, you'll read about