Life's challenges range from redundancy, relationship break-up and illness, to other people's disapproval, rejection and betrayal. Events may shake your sense of identity and leave you feeling insecure, but this isn't the end of the story. Using techniques based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), this book looks at how to surmount difficult but common adversities so that you can move on. Topics include: * facing up to inherited tendencies and personal limitations * identifying and dealing with areas where you are not in control. * living with uncertainty and loss * coping with job loss * making healthy choices in relationships * dealing with failures * dealing with unfairness and injustice While even the luckiest of us must sometimes face adversity, we can learn to deal with difficult situations.

Author Biography

Windy Dryden is Sheldon's leading author on psychological and counselling topics, and one of the world's most renowned CBT therapists. He is Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths College, London, and author of more than 150 books.