The core workbook for anyone who wants not only to understand paruresis but to change it step by step in their own everyday life.
You don't need a buddy, a group or special training locations. You work alone and discreetly, right where you already are and where paruresis shows up in your life.
The idea behind it is deliberately simple: training shouldn't become yet another big appointment in your life. You learn to use situations from your normal day as training and to adjust their difficulty to you step by step.
This creates your personal system to reduce avoidance, gather new experiences and gradually expand your room to act again.
A workbook to work through: the heart of the paruresis training system. 7 exercises that build on each other take you from your personal starting point to a training system that fits your everyday life.
Along the way, you develop:
an understanding of what makes situations easy or hard for you
your personal training hierarchy
concrete training opportunities in your existing daily routine
a realistic plan you can actually put into practice
a system for continuing to train on your own
As little extra effort as possible, as much real training as necessary. You don't have to organize your life around paruresis training. You learn to use your existing everyday life for it.
Who is the book for?
For you, if you're ready to tackle paruresis practically and train in everyday life, on your own, in a structured and discreet way.
If you're not ready for restroom training yet and first want to better understand your thoughts, shame and past patterns, start with “Rethinking Paruresis”.
Developed from personal experience and years of work with people with paruresis by Bernd Fuchs, founder of the Paruresis Training Academy and workshop leader. With professional input from Johannes Lanzinger, MSc, clinical and health psychologist.
What it is not: not psychotherapy, not a diagnosis and no promise of a cure. It is the core self-help system of the Paruresis Training Academy, helping you learn to work on your paruresis independently and step by step.
Paruresis im Alltag trainieren - Übungsbuch (German edition)
PDF, 58 pages, A4. Fill in digitally or print out. Available for download immediately after purchase. Language: German.