I'm a 45 year old woman. I'm single, never been married, no children. I'm smart, funny and look nice. The longest relationship I've had was about three years. I've spent significant periods struggling with different forms of unhappiness - some diagnosable, others not. In trying to help myself over the years I've read lots of self-help books, I've spent lots on psychotherapy, hell I've even done a PhD in psychology. These days I'm more happy than not, but things aren't what I'd like them to be.
After a recent disappointment, a dear friend pointed me back in the direction of the book Reinventing Your Life by Jeffrey Young and Janet Klosko. Yes, a self-help book. And one I'd read before. It explains schemas and schema therapy which I'd found highly informative last time but reading it again, something hit home. I understood why, after all these years of working on myself, I was still creating the same unfulfilling circumstances in my life.
So I've taken the book's challenge to reinvent my life. I'm starting to work my way through the self-help strategies in the book. And partly because I can't find any professionals in my area who specialise in schema therapy, I've decided to journal the process. And because I think it will be good for me, I'm making the journal public. So welcome.
