Who Do You Think You Are?: Understanding Your Personality From the Inside Out - Softcover

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Award-winning speaker, Dr. Tina Thomas, is an innovative and enthusiastic leader in the field of human potential and known among colleagues as a “professional fairy godmother” who delights in empowering others to create their dreams come true. Dr. Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Biopsychology and is a registered nurse and a board-certified social worker. Formerly the clinical director of Tulane University’s Cancer Counseling Center and research professor at Duke University, Dr. Thomas is currently the Director of the Gestalt Institute and Relationship Center of New Orleans. She has authored “The Ultimate Edge: How to Be, Do and Get Anything You Want” and has appeared on ABC, NBC and Fox networks as an expert in personality.

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I created this book for you, to save you time and make your life easier. Within these pages I will share a chemical blueprint for personality and show you how to identify your specific personality formula so you can understand how these chemicals affect you---and how you can influence these chemicals to enhance your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health and happiness.

With this information, I guarantee:

1) You will be more accepting of yourself and everyone else you know.

2) You will learn how your personality influences everything you think, feel, and do.

3) Once you understand yourself, you are a hop, skip, and jump away from understanding and appreciating everyone else.

4) When I tell you “You will find more peace with everyone you know,” I mean you will have more peace in any relationship you are currently in, ever had, or ever will have in your life.

5) If you utilize this information you can create a much better life than you are currently living. This book began percolating from a private practice I started years ago. Much of my work as a therapist involves teaching people about themselves and giving them tools to improve their relationships and realize their dreams. I became extremely successful in this area and informally known as a “professional fairy godmother.” Clients shared with me that their results exceeded their wildest dreams. To achieve those results, they needed to understand and master a few basic principles.

While the principles themselves are easy enough to learn, the everyday application can be more challenging. Often clients hit an emotional brick wall that sounds something like this: “Dr. T, I hear what you are saying about my spouse and what I need to do to be at peace with him, but I don’t like the idea that I’ll have to do what you suggest to get what I want.” To this I say, “Well, I don’t like that it hurts my foot when I drop a bowling ball on it. But gravity follows the laws of physics, and if I don’t understand that, don’t accept it, and don’t change my behavior because of what I know, I’ll get hurt over and over again.”

Certain laws govern human relationships too. I call those laws the Laws of Human Physics. If you understand these laws, you can use them to your advantage to gain peace with yourself and everyone you know. If you refuse to acknowledge and honor these simple but powerful principles, you will find yourself repeatedly hurt and frustrated and will not get the results you want in an elegant way. People who accept this principle eventually sigh and say, “Okay, so what exactly do I need to do again?” After that, we are off and running. Accepting “what is” has allowed my clients to stop wasting time and energy on impossible goals. This acceptance frees them up to use their time and energy to create what they want within the parameters of what is indeed possible.

When I was writing "The Ultimate Edge", I was serendipitously exposed to an elegant system of personality that, once utilized by my clients, significantly accelerated their growth and ability to manifest healthier, wealthier, and happier lives. I found myself surprisingly impressed by this personality typing system, known as the Enneagram. To be honest, at first I was tempted to dismiss the system since it emerged out of an ancient tradition rather than a modern, scientific one and because the name of the system sounded too “New-Agey Flake-cakey”. Thankfully, I kept an open mind.