Book Review: The Insight Cure:  Change Your Story, Transform Your Life

Insight is that epiphany that puts the pieces together, allows us to make sense of what we could not before, and ultimately paves the way for self-awareness. “When you are living in the glow of insight,” writes John Sharp, M.D., “your brain’s architecture will change accordingly.” In his new book, The Insight Cure: Change Your Story, Transform Your Life, John Sharp, a board certified psychiatrist and author of the Emotional Calendar, shows us how even the smallest insights can lead to a cascade of revelations that fundamentally change the way we live our lives and, in the process, eradicate the “false truths” that lie at the heart of emotional pain. Sharp asks readers, “If you were one of my patients and I asked you, ‘What misconception from childhood is still defining you now, as an adult?’, would you be able to come up with an answer?” The question, Sharp tells us, reveals just how important our interpretation of events in our lives — not the events themselves — is. What we think and say to ourselves about what has happened to us in childhood then becomes the false truths which lead to self-sabotaging behaviors as adults. Sharp gives the example of Daria, whose parents met her physical and safety needs while neglecting her social needs. “Her false truth was something like, ‘People always let me down,’” writes Sharp. Drawing on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Sharp tells us that gaining insight is like a progression that starts with ...
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