‘Emotional junkies’ by Isabel Trueba. I’m an addict and I didn’t know it?

emotional junkies of Isabel Trueba It is a book whose title already throws a gauntlet that is difficult for us to accept. The word junkie has connotations that, surely, we would not associate with us in any way and possibly even cause us rejection. That’s what happened to me when this reading came into my hands. Am I an addict?

That’s how intelligent this reading is. It tests you from the first word.

Isabel Trueba has an incredible resume in the area of ​​mental and emotional health. She considers herself an expert, among other things, in the emotional management of self-demand and through emotional junkies intends put us into action. One of the premises of this personal development book is that everything we read does not fall on deaf ears but rather that we put it into practice. Perhaps that is why its contents are so condensed and go straight to the essentials. To move towards the objective: Act. And by acting I don’t mean that you go out and pursue a career, but rather that you regulate all those emotions, thoughts, beliefs, values… that don’t do you any good.

«Emotions are responsible for your inconsistencies between your desires and your actions»Trueba tells us.

In emotional junkiesthe author presents us her BEGROW method. I admit that I am a little repelled by these methods in the area of ​​personal development that use names/acronyms in another language with the promise of a new philosophy of life. But let’s give this one a chance. The method would encompass three phases: Self-knowledge, objective and action plan, and action as such. The book develops these phases meticulously and very clearly.

«Don’t expect a quick transformation; fast is not sustained».

Isabel Trueba also seemed to me to be an author who is quite close to reality and with the previous sentence she shows us this. She does not live in a utopian reality of motivational phrases but rather is clear about the difficulties that we are surely going to go through once we delve into our own personal process.

💗 What have I learned with emotional junkies?

• I feel what my LOBO wants. In emotional junkies You will meet the wolf in your story and, believe me, he is closer than you think.

• The importance of having a emotional diary. Here I must recognize that I enter into an expectation versus reality in which I believe that I will be able to record my moods and thoughts daily and then I really do it every twenty days, so I think that we have to take this diary without pressure… With a discomfort that we catch up to date, it is already quite an achievement.

• That all emotions bring us a message. The book describes the primary emotions and the needs they have.

• Los types of attachment and WHAT IS MINE.

• to do my right questions (Why does this anger affect me so much?).

«I don’t get angry because of what the other person does to me, but because of what that person does to me.».

• That there are other questions, however, that we never ask ourselves and are a blow of reality like why do we get up every morning. Be careful because it can also create some stress if we do not (yet) have a reason for it.

• My favorite parts! The importance of the values. Be clear that there are a series of values ​​that guide us in making decisions and in how we face the world in general. I have been working on my values ​​for a long time and this book has helped me a lot to put them back in order.

• How are you my wheel of life right now. Could I go on a trip with her? Spoiler: NO. This is a very common exercise that appears in many books of this style, but every time I see it, I do it. I find it super useful and I am pleased that Isabel Trueba has also taken it into account. It is simple, schematic and clairvoyant…

• A new model for understand our motivations. I loved it!! Isabel Trueba proposes in emotional junkies a series of parameters by which we move and, furthermore, it adds something that I believe is essential: whether we do it in search of reward or avoidance of pain. The latter has been the most inspiring for me.

• Las beliefs that ruin our day.

• Another favorite part: The enneagram! Honestly, when I reached this part of the book I couldn’t believe that Trueba had included so many useful tools in this reading. It gives a lot of peace of mind to understand your enneagram.

• What empathy is NOT.

• Move your ass and put me into action.

Finish emotional junkies of Isabel Trueba It is jumping off the couch and really wanting to put into practice everything you have read because it is simple, because it is clear. And, above all, because you know yourself a little better. So I can only be grateful to have learned so much from this reading. I’m already on it!