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Tell Yourself a Better Lie

Marisa Peer

Rewrite the limiting stories holding you back and transform your confidence, behaviour, and emotional well-being.

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Tell Yourself a Better Lie

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What's it about?

Tell Yourself a Better Lie (2022) explores how deeply rooted beliefs and personal stories can shape confidence, decisions, relationships, and success. Through case studies and principles from Rapid Transformational Therapy, Marisa Peer explains how limiting beliefs often develop from early experiences and continue influencing behaviour. The book offers practical ways to identify these beliefs, replace them with more constructive messages, and create lasting personal change.

Key ideas

  • Deeply rooted beliefs and the stories we tell ourselves shape our confidence, decisions, relationships, and success.
  • Limiting beliefs often develop from early experiences and keep influencing behaviour long after those experiences have passed.
  • The book draws on case studies and principles from Rapid Transformational Therapy to show how these beliefs work.
  • The first practical step is to identify the limiting beliefs that are holding you back.
  • Replacing those beliefs with more constructive messages is how the book proposes creating lasting personal change.

About the author

Marisa Peer is a British therapist, bestselling author, speaker, and founder of Rapid Transformational Therapy. With several decades of professional experience, she is known for helping people examine limiting beliefs, strengthen self-worth, and develop greater confidence. Her books and programmes focus on personal transformation, mindset, relationships, and emotional wellbeing.

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What is Tell Yourself a Better Lie about?

Marisa Peer's 2022 book explains how limiting beliefs and personal stories shape confidence, behaviour, and emotional well-being. It offers practical ways to replace them with more constructive messages.

Who is Tell Yourself a Better Lie for?

It suits readers interested in self-help, psychology, and behaviour change who feel held back by their own beliefs. It is also useful for anyone curious about how early experiences influence the way we act.

How long is the Durar summary of Tell Yourself a Better Lie?

The Durar summary takes about 15 minutes to read or listen to. It covers the book's main ideas on identifying limiting beliefs and replacing them with better ones.

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