Telling Yourself the Truth

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Most of What Happens in Your Life Happens Because of the Way You Think

Wrong thinking produces wrong emotions, wrong reactions, wrong behavior--and unhappiness! Learning to deal with your thoughts is the first step on the road to healthy thinking.

How to handle one's thoughts properly is what this book is all about!

It explains the life-changing method the authors call ...

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Overview

Most of What Happens in Your Life Happens Because of the Way You Think

Wrong thinking produces wrong emotions, wrong reactions, wrong behavior--and unhappiness! Learning to deal with your thoughts is the first step on the road to healthy thinking.

How to handle one's thoughts properly is what this book is all about!

It explains the life-changing method the authors call Misbelief Therapy, and it can work for you--

-In your home
-In your own circumstances
-In your own problems
-In your own adverse environment
-in your own thinking

Based on the Bible, this book has helped thousands of people for many years, and it can help you!

Telling Yourself the Truth can show you how to identify your own misbeliefs and replace them with the truth.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764223259
  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 2/1/2000
  • Edition number: 20
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 73,776
  • Product dimensions: 6.07 (w) x 8.51 (h) x 0.59 (d)

Meet the Author

Dr. William Backus is founder of the Center for Christian Psychological Services, and an ordained clergyman in the Lutheran church. He is also a licensed Consulting Psychologist. He has a master's degree in theology from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Backus has conducted follow-up studies of his clients, which show a 95 percent improvement rate, compared to a 67 percent success rate for other methods of therapy. The difference, Dr. Backus says, is "the truth of God as revealed in the Word."

In addition, he serves as an assistant pastor on the staff of North Heights Lutheran Church, Roseville, Minnesota, where he has founded and directed a lay-staffed free counseling clinic. He and his wife live in Minnesota.

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Table of Contents

1. What Is Misbelief? 13
2. Do We Really Want to Be Happy? 23
3. Misbelief in Self-Talk 28
4. Misbelief in Depression 36
5. Misbelief in Anger 46
6. Misbelief in Anxiety 63
7. Misbelief in Lack of Self-Control 78
8. Misbelief in Self-Hate 103
9. Misbelief in Fear of Change 115
10. Misbelief in Never Taking a Chance 126
11. Misbelief in Our Relationships With Others 139
12. Misbelief in Being Indispensable 150
13. More Misbeliefs Guaranteed to Make You Miserable 159
I Want It, Therefore I Should Have It 160
It's Terrible to Have Hurt Feelings 161
In Order to Be Happy I Must Be Loved by Everybody 163
Things Have to Go Right 164
I Should Always Be and Act Happy in Spite of All Hardship or Trouble That Comes My Way 166
14. What Must I Do to Be Miserable? Or, When the Truth Does Not Set Us Free 173
Study Guide 183
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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 8, 2001

    This book changed my life!

    This book opened up a whole new world to me. Thoughts are very deceiving and this book will help you sort through what is the real truth about yourself... Don't believe everything you think!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 19, 2001

    Understanding why you do what you do

    This book was extremely helpful during and after a painful divorce. It was more helpful because I am a Christian, but anyone that feels like their life is out of control can gain so much from this book. The sections let you see the impact of emotions on how and why we do and say the things we do. Perhaps you don't feel that you can change the way you are, but the authors give alternatives that can be practiced to start you on the way to a new personality.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2012

    Wonderful help in overcoming anxiety and depression!

    Telling Yourself the Truth helped me to have a better understanding of the ways that I was lying to myself and how to replace the lies with truth based on the Word of God. It is especially effective when used along with another book by Backus entitled, Learning to Tell Myself the Truth. This workbook-style book really helped me to put the message into action. I was able to greatly reduce my anxiety about flying with very little effort with the help of these books. My husband has benefitted from these books as well. We were introduced to them through Dr. Neil Nedley's Depression Recovery Program and we now recommend them to help others in the process of overcoming depression and anxiety.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 6, 2010

    A MUST READ

    This book changed my life when I read it almost twenty years ago, and I still apply its principles today. I hope it going to be available in Nook, as I keep giving away my copy.

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