The Comparison Cleanse: A 21-Day Program Using DBT Mindfulness to Notice Comparison Triggers and Emotion Regulation to Choose Self-Compassion Instead
A 21-Day Program Using DBT Mindfulness to Notice Comparison Triggers and Emotion Regulation to Choose Self-Compassion Instead
Comparison rarely announces itself. It slips into the room wearing ordinary clothes.
You open a message from an old classmate who has just been promoted. You feel pleased for three seconds. Then your mind starts auditing your own career. A neighbor renovates a kitchen. Suddenly your perfectly serviceable cabinets look like a personal failure. Someone posts a smiling photograph from a beach, and your quiet Saturday begins to feel embarrassingly small.
Nothing outside you has changed. The promotion was already theirs. Your cabinets still close. Saturday still contains the same hours. Yet the internal weather shifts.
What You Will Discover Inside The Comparison Cleanse
In The Comparison Cleanse, Valeska Hoffmann writes a practical guide you can use this week. You will find scenes you recognize, steps you can try today, and language that does not insult the problem.
Part I: Understanding the Comparison Trap & Preparing for the Cleanse: What part I: Understanding the Comparison Trap & Preparing for the Cleanse looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
Chapter 1: The Invisible Chains of Comparison: What the Invisible Chains of Comparison looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
Chapter 2: Why We Compare: Roots and Rewiring: What why We Compare: Roots and Rewiring looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
Evolutionary Impulses vs. Learned Behaviors: What evolutionary Impulses vs. Learned Behaviors looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
Chapter 3: Introducing the Comparison Cleanse: What introducing the Comparison Cleanse looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
A 21-Day Journey to Inner Freedom: What a 21-Day Journey to Inner Freedom looks like in ordinary days, and the first move that actually helps.
