I was hooked right from the authors\' note; there was such beautiful humanity to it.
It guides the reader towards countering the inner critic with mindful self-compassio.
It offers support for People who want to adopt a Healthy Helper Mindset, including meeting their own needs, building assertiveness and setting helping boundaries.
The book provides activities for the reader to profile and analyze their own helping relationships.
It illustrates all this with excerpts from a broad spectrum of interviews with paid and unpaid helpers, from ICU nurses to lawyers, volunteers to live-in carers.
It goes deep into the belief system of helpers and reveals what really motivates them.
It brings to life psychological and neuroscientific research to explain the roots of compassion and empathy.
It sets out how helping works and why it sometimes goes wrong.
The Super-Helper Syndrome offers a new perspective on the psychology of helping.
Until recently this phenomenon has gone unnoticed and unnamed, but it has now been highlighted by chartered psychologists Jess Baker and Rod Vincent.
Where People feel compelled to help others and don\'t look after their own needs, that\'s the Super-Helper Syndrome.
It dwells in the psychology of the helper.
It lurks unnoticed.
Deeper down, beneath all of this, there is something else that causes helpers to suffer.
Those who are professional carers work prolonged hours with inadequate resources.
Those in long-term caring relationships have no time to care for themselves.
Some face traumatic and distressing situations.
In their efforts to help wherever they can they typically overstretch themselves.
But these people, who do so much to help others, are struggling.
There\'s usually one in every family.
But you will also find them in offices, gyms, community groups and charities - everywhere you look.
They are the backbone of the caring professions, giving strength to our schools, clinics, care homes and hospitals.
Maybe you know someone who is.
Maybe you\'re one of them.
This book is a game changer Suzy Reading, author of The Self-Care RevolutionThere\'s a type of person out there who is better at helping others than they are at looking after themselves.
I loved the prompts bringing deep insight, expertly yet tenderly unpicking the core beliefs that keep us stuck in unhealthy helping habits, followed up with the practical tools to actually do things differently.
This book is a powerful catalyst in showing helpers how to help themselves.
I was hooked right from the authors\' note; there was such beautiful humanity to it
