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Why Good People Do Bad Things: How to Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy

by Debbie Ford

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Paperback · 256 pages HarperCollins · 2009

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Why Good People Do Bad Things

Discover a Life Filled with Passion, Meaning, and Purpose

New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford leads us into the heart of the duality that unknowingly operates within each one of us. Drawing on decades of coaching experience, she exposes the hidden burden of toxic shame and guides readers toward embracing their disowned impulses.

Ford illustrates how unacknowledged pain operates like a beach ball held underwater, bound to erupt in humiliating bursts of self-defeat when vigilance falters.

Through candid personal accounts and case histories, the book maps the pervasive masks of the wounded ego and offers practical spiritual antidotes to dismantle recurring cycles of self-destruction.

Providing the tools to end self-sabotage, Ford ultimately knocks down the façade of the false self and shows us how to heal the split between light and dark and live the authentic life within our reach.

  • Shadow Work: Ford demonstrates how acknowledging aggressive or fearful instincts provides vital inner strength rather than sources of shame, drawing on the Cherokee parable of the two wolves.
  • Emotional Healing: Discover how early childhood conditioning creates a persistent shame body, and learn to identify protective masks like the People Pleaser, the Intellectual, and the Martyr.
  • Actionable Strategies: Explore targeted frameworks that counter seven common warning signals, balancing tendencies like defensiveness, arrogance, and deception with vulnerability, humility, and integrity.
  • Personal Transformation: Concrete exercises in self-forgiveness and active restitution provide a reliable path to release lingering guilt and dismantle the unconscious impulse for self-punishment.
  • Also by This Author: The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse.


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Publisher
HarperCollins
Author
Debbie Ford
Format
Paperback
Published
Apr 14, 2009
ISBN-13
9780060897383
ISBN-10
0060897384
Pages
256
Carton quantity
68 copies
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