Neal Allen & Anne Lamott, Better Days

If you're like most people, you have a superego: A nagging voice in your head telling you to work harder, be better, make more friends, and screw up less. It frowns at your mistakes, warns you that your list needs tending, and questions your attractiveness. It's a bully. And it holds you back.

Better Days will help you confront and immobilize the superego through a method that is simple, fun and riveting. Along the way you'll learn a dozen specific techniques anyone can use to move that snarky voice to the side. Reduce anxiety, increase satisfaction, and find your own freedom. Better days are just ahead!

"No other system has ever so efficiently broken through my lifelong sense of isolation as the work you are about to encounter, and at the same time, been so welcoming and even fun."
- Anne Lamott, Author of Dusk Night Dawn, Bird by Bird and others

Neal Allen is a writer, spiritual coach and speaker whose chief interest is removing obstacles of the ego. He is the author of Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside You and Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic. A former journalist and corporate executive, he earned master's degrees in Political Science and Eastern Classics. He lives with his wife, the writer Anne Lamott, in Northern California.

Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Almost Everything; Hallelujah Anyway; Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; and Operating Instructions. She is also the author of seven novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.