| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Path to Happiness and the Road to Misery Are Easily Confused | p. 3 |
| Recognizing an Addictive Personality and the Purpose of Healing | p. 4 |
| Healing Begins with the Invitation to Love | p. 7 |
| The Four A's: Achieving, Acquiring, Approval, and Accomplishing | p. 7 |
| When the Solution Becomes Another Addiction | p. 8 |
| Where to Find the Answers and How to Recognize the Smoke and Mirrors | p. 9 |
| Biological Factors and Addiction | p. 10 |
| Is There Really an Addictive Personality? | p. 11 |
| How to Use the Power of Choice to Heal | p. 12 |
| Your Teacher Is Standing Right in Front of You | p. 12 |
| Who We Are Versus Who Our Addictive Personality Tells Us We Are | p. 15 |
| The Truth about Happiness | p. 17 |
| Three Healing Words: "I Am Enough" | p. 20 |
| Denial: The Not-So-Little Secret | p. 22 |
| The Addictive Personality's Plan: Deny It and It Will Disappear | p. 23 |
| Projection: The Illusion That Keeps On Rolling | p. 24 |
| Special Hate and Special Love Relationships | p. 26 |
| The Thought System of the Addictive Personality | p. 29 |
| How the Addictive Personality Uses Fear to Control You | p. 30 |
| How to Break the Addictive Personality's Cycle of Fear | p. 33 |
| How the Addictive Personality Uses the Past and the Future to Prevent Positive Change | p. 35 |
| How the Addictive Personality Uses Judgment to Maintain Conflict-Centered Relationships | p. 40 |
| The Peaceful Alternative to Judgment | p. 42 |
| How the Addictive Personality Uses Scarcity | p. 43 |
| The Thirteen Core Beliefs of the Addictive Personality | p. 45 |
| I am separate from everybody else | p. 45 |
| If I want security and success, I must judge others | p. 47 |
| My perceptions are always correct and my way is the right way | p. 48 |
| Attack and defense are my only safety | p. 48 |
| The past and the future are real and must be worried about | p. 48 |
| Guilt is inescapable because the past is real | p. 49 |
| Mistakes require judgment and punishment | p. 50 |
| Fear is real | p. 51 |
| Other people and situations are at fault for my feelings and failures | p. 52 |
| Another's loss is my gain | p. 53 |
| I need someone or something else to complete me | p. 54 |
| My self-esteem is based on pleasing you | p. 54 |
| I need to control everyone and everything around me | p. 55 |
| How These Beliefs Combine Forces | p. 55 |
| The Two Forms of Communication | p. 57 |
| The Structure of the Truth-Based Personality | p. 59 |
| How the Truth-Based Personality Uses the Power of Love | p. 62 |
| How the Truth-Based Personality Uses the Present Moment to Set You Free | p. 64 |
| Peak Performance and the Present Moment | p. 66 |
| Six Principles to Peak Performance and Realized Opportunity | p. 68 |
| Six Old Patterns of the Addictive Personality and Six Truth-Based Alternatives | p. 69 |
| Watching the Breath | p. 70 |
| How the Truth-Based Personality Uses Acceptance to Create Deep Change and Peace-Centered Relationships | p. 70 |
| Recognized Essential Value | p. 71 |
| Deep Change Versus Surface Change | p. 75 |
| The Power Over Approach | p. 76 |
| The Power of Powerlessness Approach | p. 77 |
| Hard Honesty | p. 78 |
| Hitting Bottom | p. 79 |
| How the Truth-Based Personality Creates Opportunity and Miracles | p. 80 |
| Creating Opportunity and Abundance: What Is Valuable and What Is Not | p. 82 |
| The Myth about True Abundance | p. 83 |
| The Thirteen Core Beliefs of the Truth-Based Personality | p. 85 |
| What I see in others reflects my own state of mind | p. 85 |
| My safety lies in my defenselessness | p. 86 |
| Love is unconditional | p. 88 |
| Forgiveness, with hard honesty, ensures peace | p. 89 |
| Session | p. 90 |
| Only the present is real | p. 92 |
| To change my experience, I must first change my thoughts | p. 93 |
| Mistakes call for correction and learning | p. 94 |
| Only love is real | p. 95 |
| I am responsible for my life | p. 95 |
| I receive what I want by giving what I have | p. 96 |
| I am complete right now | p. 97 |
| My self-esteem comes from within | p. 98 |
| I can't change others, but I can change how I perceive them | p. 99 |
| The Core Beliefs of the Addictive Personality and the Truth-Based Personality | p. 100 |
| Beliefs of the Addictive Personality | p. 100 |
| Beliefs of the Truth-Based Personality | p. 101 |
| The Addictive Personality and the Fear of Intimacy | p. 103 |
| The Confusion between Freedom and Imprisonment | p. 104 |
| Accepting and Embracing the Life We Have Lived | p. 108 |
| Finding Freedom and Opportunity through Responsibility | p. 109 |
| The Big Myth: "I'm Not Okay the Way I Am" | p. 110 |
| The Misuse of Goals | p. 111 |
| Stopping the Cycle of Attack and Defense | p. 111 |
| A Truth-Centered Approach to Life | p. 113 |
| The Truth about Anger, Guilt, Attack, and Defense | p. 114 |
| Trust Versus trust | p. 118 |
| Learning to Recognize Our Essential Value | p. 119 |
| What the Addictive Personality Wants You to Believe | p. 120 |
| Irrational Beliefs of the Addictive Personality | p. 128 |
| Alternate Messages from the Truth-Based Personality | p. 129 |
| Being Compulsively-Other-Focused | p. 130 |
| Ten Core Beliefs of Being Compulsively-Other-Focused | p. 132 |
| Healing through Forgiveness | p. 134 |
| Letting Go | p. 134 |
| Affirming Who You Are | p. 135 |
| Truths about Myself | p. 136 |
| Healing Relationships: Growing Beyond the Addictive Personality in Our Interactions with Others | p. 137 |
| Six Core Truths of Truth-Based Relationships | p. 138 |
| Patterns That Create Conflict and Traps | p. 140 |
| Patterns That Create Peace and Opportunity | p. 140 |
| You Are Not Alone: An Introduction to the Daily Lessons | p. 142 |
| Daily Lessons | p. 145 |
| An Eleven-Week Action Plan for Continued Healing | p. 168 |
| Epilogue | p. 171 |
| Index | p. 173 |
| About the Author | p. 178 |
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