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Free Guide

Why Affirmations Grated

(Not because you were doing it wrong)

Because they were missing the most important step.

Get the free research-backed guide that explains why, and gives you five alternatives that actually work.

What you will find inside:

The 2009 research finding that should have rewritten the self-help playbook, and why nobody told you about it.

Why affirmations make things measurably worse for the people who need them most, and the precise psychological mechanism behind it.

Five evidence-based alternatives grounded in narrative psychology, none of which require you to say something you don't believe.

The eight core beliefs that sit underneath the affirmations you have been trying to override, and a list you may recognise.

The first step of the Narrative Archaeology methodology, and where to go from there.

Created by Sarah Jane Bailey

Amazon Bestselling Author | MSc Mental Health Psychology, University of Liverpool

'I made 'She', my first piece, before I had language for why it mattered.

This guide is where the language began.'

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