When misery is company by Anne Katherine

Book review - How can this book help you

This book deals with the issue of addiction to misery as company.
It is a practical book for understanding our comfort in misery as company.
The author shares the various symptoms like being avoid ant, not acting when action is required, being indecisive, being ambivalent and so on.
The book will help to understand why you are addicted to misery and to end sabotage.
This book contains a daily practice for ending sabotage, question you can ask in the morning and in the evening.
The program in this book offers a path to emancipation and a way to expose and neutralize the configuration of events that imprinted the problem in the first place.

This book is divided in two parts.

Part one: Understanding the problem : comfort in misery, isolation, sacrifice and the system, mom, dad and anger, feelings that are stopping you and more. Fill with practical exercises.
Part two: Finding and living the solution: recovering and the process that is divided in three steps. Each step is explained in a chapter.

About the author

Anne Katherine is a psychotherapist, licensed mental health counselor and popular author who is known for her pioneering work in developing effective programs fro recovery from food addiction and discovery of life purpose.

Excerpts from the book review

"Comfort in misery: We are creatures of survival. We were biologically designed, engineered, and programmed to survive, more or less, at all costs. Yet survival can carry many faces. If for whatever reason, misery seems necessary for our survival, we'll choose misery. Simplified, the logic goes like this:

Something good happened to me - I was happy - Then this horrible thing followed or came from the same place or person that made me happy
I was nearly crushed by my grief. This means that happiness leads to crushing grief
Therefore, if I avoid happiness, I'll protect myself from grief".

When Misery is Company: End Self-Sabotage and Become Content book by Anne Katherine. Page 5

"Sacrifice: Many misery addicts are sacrificers. Their system includes sacrificing themselves in various ways for ideas, rules or people. For example, Ingrid had quite a comprehensive system of sacrifice: she gave up her time, interest, ideas, home,money and preferences for others. ."

When Misery is Company: End Self-Sabotage and Become Content book by Anne Katherine. Page 60 .

How this book can help

"This book is for people who suspect they suffer from an addiction to misery but don't know how they got there or what to do about it.

It's also for the families and loved ones of these people, who have been puzzled by the destructive choices they've watched their friends, partners, or family members make.

An addiction to misery is a particularly pernicious and difficult problem because it operates behind the scenes like a puppeteer begin a curtain. It can manifest in so many guises that the larger pattern can be easy to miss. Maybe you have read books on co dependency or related recovery issues, yet you didn't find solutions for yourself. This could be the reason: a larger, hidden issue was actually going on that was influencing you

It is not unsolvable. The program in this book offers a path to emancipation ana a way to expose and neutralize the configuration of events that imprinted the problem in the first place.

I've watched and exulted as my own clients have used this program to protect or improve their jobs, restore their health, find intimacy and collapse in unfettered, uproarious laughter and delight.

This is a book of solutions and of hope. It's a way to empower yourself to step beyond the invisible web that has held you captive. It's a doorway into a fuller existence. Welcome".

When Misery is Company: End Self-Sabotage and Become Content book by Anne Katherine. Page 8-9

This is a practical book that describes how many people guard against disappointment, fear, or shame by not allowing themselves to fully experience intimacy, success or pleasure. Order this book now!:

# Paperback: 304 pages # Publisher: Hazelden; 1 edition (January 28, 2004) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 1592850847

Editorial Review

Product Description: Surprising as it may sound, many people take comfort in their own misery. Feeling too good for too long (or even feeling good at all) can be scary for people, explains Anne Katherine.

"Achievement creates anxiety. Intimacy leads to fear. Happiness produces uneasiness. Pleasure causes pain. The solution to this dilemma: what feels good has to be stopped. I call this an addiction to misery." Katherine's fascination and perspective book provides immediate assistance to those people who think they might be making choices that keep them at a "carefully calibrated level of existence--beneath bliss and above despair."