About the Book
When you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, just keeping your emotions in check seems like a full-time job. Yet, what may hold you back in life even more are your survival patterns. Have you ever wondered why you make yourself invisible, procrastinate, or please others to get their approval? Our subconscious employs survival patterns like these to protect us from rejection, failure, and hurt. However, living in subconscious “survival mode” has significant downsides: when we live “just to survive,” we become disconnected from our true selves and our innate ability to live an empowered life of purpose, fulfilment, and self-reliant confidence.
In this step-by-step guide, Friedemann Schaub, M.D., Ph.D., explores how to break free from the six most common survival patterns--the victim, the invisible, the procrastinator, the chameleon, the helper, and the lover--by engaging the part of the mind that created them in the first place: the subconscious. Providing research-backed insights and brain-rewiring methods based on his 20 years’ experience, Dr. Friedemann details how, through activating the healing power of the subconscious, you can throw off the shackles of these self-sabotaging patterns and “flip” them into the six keys to self-empowerment, allowing you to take self-reliant ownership of your life.
Revealing how to work with the subconscious mind and become the leader of your life, the author details how to free yourself from living in survival mode, learn to love and accept yourself, and make authenticity and confidence your everyday way of being.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I
Taking Inventory
Why You Are Never Powerless
1 Survival and the Slow Loss of Self
2 The Subconscious Mind: Your Agent of Change
PART II
Taking Responsibility
From Anxiously Avoiding Discomfort to Confidently Creating Your Reality
3 The Victim Pattern and the Illusion of Powerlessness
4 Self-Responsibility: The Key to Owning Your Past
5 The Invisibility Pattern: Living Under the Radar
6 Self-Compassion: The Key to Owning Your Hidden Gifts
7 The Procrastinator Pattern: Waiting for Tomorrow
8 Self-Reliance: The Key to Owning Your Actions
PART III
Taking a Stand
From Pleasing Others to Loving Your Authentic Self
9 The Chameleon Pattern: Fitting In at All Costs
10 Self-Reflection: The Key to Owning Your Truth
11 The Helper Pattern: Over-Extended and Underappreciated
12 Self-Commitment: The Key to Owning Your Energy
13 The Lover Pattern: Aching for Love
14 Self-Love: The Key to Owning Yourself
PART IV
Taking Charge
Integration through Implementation
15 The Empowered Leader of Your Life
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author and Resources
About the Author :
Friedemann Schaub, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician, researcher, personal development coach, and the author of the award-winning book The Fear and Anxiety Solution. His research and advice have been featured in many publications, including Nature Medicine, Oprah Magazine, Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest, Teen Vogue, and Shape. He is the host of the Empowerment Solutions podcast and lives between Seattle, Washington, and the South of France.
Review :
“A truly life-changing read! If you’re stuck in fear and anxiety, The Empowerment SolutionSolution is a stalwart guide into the realm of personal freedom. Dr. Schaub masterfully channels his wealth of experience into helping readers create greater self-love, acceptance, and personal empowerment. His unique method helps readers actually rewire their brains to unleash the immense positive power of the subconscious mind.”
“We humans need this book now! Our thoughts and our minds have the ability to heal with this guidance. The greatest relationship you have is with yourself, and Dr. Schaub does an incredible job of teaching us to empower ourselves with the amazing information in this book.”
“So many of us are looking for answers to help with anxiety, poor self-esteem, lack of confidence, insomnia, and countless other issues. Many of these issues stem from stories never told or beliefs that are not founded in reality. Friedemann Schaub, M.D., Ph.D., has compiled in The Empowerment Solution all the tools that will bring freedom from anxiety and self-doubt and then enhanced personal empowerment, which we all strive for in life. It is a must-read for all of us on a quest for self-empowerment.”
“Living in survival mode makes us feel anxious and powerless. Dr. Schaub’s book will show you how to get through survival mode and come out on the other side. The Empowerment Solution puts you on a path of self-exploration to learn how to own your energy and life again. This very helpful guide not only provides practical and powerful steps for how to regain your power but also shares real-life examples from Dr. Schaub and his clients in stories that we can all identify with. Dive into this book, implement the exercises, and on the way discover how effortlessly you can become empowered.”
“The Empowerment Solution is such an insightful book. A light went off inside when I learned about anxiety being an inner compass that alerts us when we’re off our path. It makes perfect sense. I also found the chapter “Self-Compassion: The Key to Owning Your Hidden Gifts” very moving and profound. It truly helped me connect to the scared little boy in me. I lost my dad to cancer and that loss would’ve been much, much harder for me had I not connected those fears into strengths. Dr. Friedemann and this book helped me do that.”
“In this insightful and helpful book, Dr. Schaub offers far more than the standard techniques for dealing with fear and anxiety. He goes deeper and gets at the real causes of our discontent. Most importantly, Schaub provides solutions that reconnect us with ourselves, our power, and our fundamental ground.”
