Journal Journey from Ego
About this ebook
• How To Recognize Ego Processes
• How To Remove Ego Processes
• How To Replace Ego Processes
• How To Journal for Freedom from Ego
• 32 Charts Available to Help You
Journal to Freedom
• This book is about how to journal to improve counseling outcomes, gains, and results.
• The journaling methods described in this book can be used with any counseling theory.
• However, this book is designed to be used by people in counseling who work to reduce and eliminate their ego.
• Such persons will have become aware that removing the underlying factors that cause and maintain problems means removing the ego.
• Specifically, this book is best suited for those using Mind Your Ego or Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) to reduce and remove their ego from their lives.
15 Questions to Repeatedly Ask Yourself
• This journaling system is based on your following and processing 15 Questions related to the nature of self and ego.
• Included are explanations and examples of the 15 Questions and how to practice them.
• The bulk of your journaling practice will be recording your understanding and application of these 15 Questions.
• In using the system, you will emphasize some questions more than others, and which questions you emphasize will vary and change at different times.
• You may also find yourself rewriting, adapting, adjusting, and modifying the questions to suit your particular issues and needs.
More on Ego Creation
• This book also includes information on scripting and how scripting is used to form ego identities.
• The chapter after scripting covers ways that we maintain our ego identities.
• Further chapters help with the three processes of recognizing, removing, and replacing ego identities.
• Some discussion follows those chapters on the nature of positive ego and spiritual pride.
• Finally, there is more information in the Appendixes on such topics as the 3Rs, defense mechanisms, and basic fundamental skills.
Check with Your Counselor
• Consult with your counselor to see if you and your counseling can benefit from the use of this book.
• Your counselor may have an approach not mentioned that is entirely compatible with this book, or your counselor may perceive this book as a distraction or a hindrance to the work you are currently engaged in.
Companion to Mind Your Ego
• You can consider this book a companion piece to Mind Your Ego by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice.
• Mind Your Ego provides a system with specific plans to Recognize, Remove, and Replace (3Rs) your ego.
• This book provides a system to journal your progress in recognizing, removing, and replacing your ego.
• The more you reduce the ego in your life, the more you will reduce negative stress, unneeded problems, and ego-created problems and conflicts in your life.
About the author
After more than twenty-five years in the counseling field, Mr. FitzMaurice has refined many principles and methods of counseling. He now puts those principles and methods into book form to share them with a wider audience, so more people can benefit than he can reach in person. He has more than forty books, most of which are available worldwide from Amazon and other sources.
Mr. FitzMaurice has a variety of formal and advanced training in counseling, which includes Addictions Counseling, Family Therapy, advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and over 1,650 hours of diverse training for continuing education units (CEUs).
To make the best use of that extensive training, he takes an integrative approach, grounding himself in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (REBT and CBT) and using the other theories to build upon that one core theory, rather than focusing on multiple theories and mastering none of them.
His writings and interests focus on philosophy, psychology, recovery, self-help, and spirituality.
