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How many times have you loved without being loved back? And vice versa. And how many times did you think someone truly loved you, only to see it all fall apart in just a couple of months?
Narcissistic relationships, long-distance relationships, ambiguous relationships. Or welcoming, profound, parental relationships. Does true love even exist? Or are we forever doomed to toxic, disturbed, and disturbing relationships? Our minds are filled with doubt, frustration, and wishful thinking. And our baggage can be so cumbersome as to make it impossible to truly live in the here and now. All too often failure seems just around the corner. Through an in-depth analysis of Greek myth, imaginal psychological exercises and self-tests, Michele Mezzanotte, a therapist and cofounder of the online archetypical psychology magazine «L’anima fa arte», helps us discover the relationship profile best suited to us, identify the root causes of our toxic relationships, and better understand the workings of our psyche, and most especially of our mysterious subconscious. All with the confidence of a believer in true love. All we need to do is learn to recognize it, nourish it, build it.
HAPPINESS IS (NOT) A MYTH: Lose Your Fear of Failure
We wake up one morning and feel utterly lost. Alone and adrift, overwhelmed by trauma, grief, pain, we no longer feel at home in the world. We are riddled with questions. Have I gone mad? Am I depressed, anxious, versensitive? Why do I feel such sadness? And such anger? Why is everyone else successful while I feel like a failure?
Michele Mezzanotte teaches us that all these questions, this self-doubt, are in fact the key to tap our resources, identifying and releasing our strengths. Psychopathological symptoms, whether minor or major, are the way our psyche speaks to us, pointing the way out of the rut. And this book is a guide to decode the psyche’s messages. It provides the tools we need to understand the signs and the underlying causes of our everyday malaise. We will learn to listen to ourselves and recognize the archetypical metaphors of Greek myths. And we will finally bounce back, drawing strength from a deeper knowledge of ourselves and our relationships. For self-knowledge is already recovery, and this book proves it.