Don't Feed the Monkey Mind by Jennifer Shannon

Author:Jennifer Shannon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SEL036000 Self-help / Anxieties & Phobias, PSY022060 Psychology / Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Use the Perfectionist Mind-set chart available at http://www.newharbinger.com/35067 to help turn your own perfectionist mind-set into a more expansive way of thinking.

Beyond Over-responsible

Samantha’s primary safety strategy was calling to check on her alcoholic son. Her new expansive strategy was simple: Don’t call and check.

In order to follow through with her plan, Samantha would need to change her default mind-set. She had always operated under the assumption that If something bad happens to him and I didn’t do anything to prevent it, it would be my fault. Her new way of thinking would have to be, I cannot prevent my son from hurting himself.

Naturally this was challenging for Samantha to contemplate. As a mother, the stakes felt overwhelmingly high. If she didn’t check on him and something happened, her pain and guilt would be enormous. But Samantha’s present mind-set and safety strategies were seriously affecting her mental and physical health. She knew she had to change.

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