No More Mr. Nice Guy: The Hero's Journey

This guide, both a companion to Dr. Robert Glover's No More Mr. Nice Guy and a stand-alone manual, takes the reader on a step-by-step journey of masculine self-discovery. It provides a practical and emotional understanding of the problems that many Nice Guys face, and it lays out a series of easy-to-follow exercises for overcoming those issues. By the end of the journey, the you will have the tools to help you pursue your goals with passion and courage, develop more rewarding relationships, enhance your sex life, embrace your masculinity, and ultimately, live a fuller, richer, happier life. Utilizing the fundamental ideas of No More Mr. Nice Guy, this guide adds additional insight and a chapter-by-chapter series of structured exercises to help you move from frustrated Nice Guy to powerful and confident Integrated Male. As you take your own personal Hero's Journey, you will be learning skills essential for creating a better life: •Facing your fears and cutting them down to size •Embracing your masculinity; becoming the man you want to be •Exchanging toxic masculinity for healthy masculinity •Becoming more honest and authentic; living in integrity •Letting go of attachment to outcome •Becoming more conscious and mindful in all you do •Developing greater self-confidence •Overcoming fear of rejection •Developing healthy assertiveness and creating strong boundaries •Overcoming self-limiting beliefs •Emasculating your inner critic •Getting a new relationship started on the right foot •Working through problems in ongoing relationships •Letting go of covert contracts and other counterproductive relationship strategies •Getting over not feeling good enough •Accelerating your personal growth •Feeling more empowered •Pursuing your goals with drive and passion •Improving interpersonal communication •Accessing and utilizing emotions to the fullest •Enhancing intimacy of all kinds Dr. Pariser, a professional psychologist with 20 years of experience in private practice, has taken many men (and women) through the kind of journey he lays out in this guide. In the course of that work, he has helped them overcome: •Anxiety •Depression •People pleasing •Nice Guy issues •Relationship conflict and problems •Poor communication •Social anxiety and shyness •Toxic shame •Fear of feelings •Emotional difficulties •Low self-esteem •Loneliness and hopelessness •Feeling like a failure •Lack of confidence •Lack of assertiveness •Difficulty setting boundaries •Lack of purpose •Feeling stuck in life •Problematic personalities •Maladaptive interpersonal styles •Passivity and passive aggressive behavior •Trauma •Ongoing childhood issues If you would like to conquer challenges like these and reach your highest potential, if you would like to stop being a frustrated Nice Guy and become the Integrated Male you've longed to be, then this is unquestionably the Hero's Journey you want to take.