Taming Your Gremlin Revised Edition..., Rick Carson
Taming Your Gremlin Revised Edition..., Rick Carson
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Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition)
A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

Author: Rick Carson

Narrator: Rick Carson

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/22/2013

Synopsis

This is a completely updated edition of the 1983 classic that introduced a powerful method for gaining freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. Rick Carson, creator of the renowned Gremlin-Taming™ Method, has revised the book to include fresh interactive activities, real-life vignettes we can all identify with, and new loathsome gremlins ripe for taming. Carson blends his laid-back style, Taoist wisdom, the Zen Theory of Change, and sound psychology in an easy-to-understand, unique, and practical system for banishing the nemesis within. Among the things you will learn are: Techniques for getting a sliver of light between the natural you and the monster of your mind. The extraordinary power of simply noticing and playing with options. Six keys to maintaining emotional balance amid upheaval.

About Rick Carson

Rick Carson's seminal work, Taming Your Gremlin®, has been translated into several languages and has been a consistent seller since 1984. For thousands in a cross-section of cultures and circumstances, the Gremlin-Taming Method serves as a foundation for responding to everyday challenges and for living a satisfying life.For over thirty-five years Rick has been a counselor, personal and executive coach, and trainer for mental health professionals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. His work is used in the training of psychotherapists, personal and executive coaches, substance abuse specialists, corrections personnel, teachers, corporate executives, clergy, and others. He is a former faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and a clinical member and approved supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.Rick is the founder of the Gremlin Taming Institute in Dallas, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sid on December 24, 2015

This book has been sitting on my to-read shelf for about 20 years. I just pulled it out and read it, and was blown away by how it is able to communicate so much psychoeducation in such a user-friendly, understandable format. As a therapist, I've ordered copies for most of my clients, as the book cov......more

Goodreads review by Terence on December 13, 2022

Taming Your Gremlin is another one of the books saying the same thing in its own way. Rick Carson fully embraced the idea of Gremlins to the point there is hideous Gremlin artwork throughout the book. The concepts aren't bad, but I have definitely heard them explained better. The below quote however......more

Goodreads review by Pallavi on April 13, 2020

****5.0**** You likely already have some sense of your gremlin, which has influenced you since your birth. Did I? Well, I do know that I never looked it in that perspective. Everybody has a inner voice that stops you from doing things or encourages you to try some stuff or just normally continously ra......more

Goodreads review by Giorgi on June 08, 2019

A great book about an ego mind which the author calls the Gremlin that lives inside of us. What I liked the most are the approaches that Rick presents as coping mechanisms to our Gremlins' behaviors. Mindfulness is encouraged and simply noticing is said to be the first step of taming the Voice. And,......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on July 03, 2012

I only finished 70% of this book. I just didn't like it. He has some good points, but his language and writing is offensive at times. I did like the idea of our trying to live up to our own self-concept (not a good thing) and acknowledging that we all have acts that we perform in front of different......more

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