YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIX EVERYTHING. ON SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND MYTHS ABOUT PSYCHOTHERAPY

Do you often feel inferior to others? Are you afraid of making a life mistake that will ruin your future? Do you think you are not ready for life, a relationship, a family? Do you feel that you absolutely need psychotherapy because everyone is more mature, better, and more resourceful than you? Discover how to accept yourself and your life as it is.

• Understanding yourself: Learn the mechanisms that govern your well-being and self-esteem.
• Acceptance of imperfection: Learn to accept your flaws and weaknesses.
• Discovering your own resources: Identify your strengths and talents.
• Coping with anxiety: Learn to control your fears and anxieties.
• Building healthy relationships: Learn to build satisfying relationships with other people.
• Living in harmony with yourself: Learn to live in harmony with your values and beliefs.

Urszula Struzikowska-Marynicz's book is a guide to the world of psychotherapy that helps you understand when it is really needed and when we can cope on our own. The author analyzes the culture of over-therapizing that surrounds us everywhere and shows that not every state of anxiety, suffering, or unhappiness requires treatment. Instead, she encourages you to stop, look inside yourself, and discover your own resources.

The author emphasizes that many people feel flawed, sick, or bad. They are afraid to trust themselves, and therefore to feel and live independently. They expect mistakes, punishment for them, disappointing themselves and disappointing others. The psychotherapist is to replace other people who are important in the patient/client's life: friends, mentors, guides. Many people declare that without constant psychotherapy they would not be able to function independently, which sounds both interesting and disturbing to the author.

This book is an invitation to reflect on your own life and choices. It is an attempt to confront the myths about psychotherapy, both those that romanticize it and those that stigmatize it. Psychotherapy is an effective, empirically proven method of treating mental disorders and supporting mental well-being, but it is important to carefully recognize when it is needed for us. Not everything that is difficult requires therapy. Sometimes it is enough to stop, look inside yourself, and discover that we have everything we need.

Iza Maliszewska, the author of the book Who Decides How Much You Are Worth?, recommends this book as a guide that explains when psychotherapy supports development and when it becomes an escape from life. It shows how to see your own resources and bravely face the challenges that are an integral part of everyday life. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to live life to the fullest, regardless of the difficulties they encounter along the way.

Edition: Mando Inside, 2025
Pages: 224
Format: 203x146 mm
Cover: paperback