The Real You

"I believe personality makeovers are just as possible as appearance makeovers," claims birth order guru Dr. Kevin Leman. In The Real You, he delivers the goods on how readers can thoroughly figure themselves out, ditch the bad stuff that's been holding them back, and maximize their undeveloped strengths. Leman launches the book by guiding the reader through four main personality grids-birth order, the four classic personality types, childhood memories, and love languages. Then he pulls it all together in a chapter titled "Be Your Own Shrink." Readers will be guided on how to develop positive habits, use self-talk to work through times of failure, marshal their imaginative energy in dealing with problems, and more. Once readers really understand themselves-their strengths, their weaknesses, their predispositions, the forces of nature and the family background that shaped them into the people they are-there will be no holding them back, asserts Leman. For anyone who wants to climb vocational mountains, break out of relational ruts, and forge new social patterns,

Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, humorist, radio and TV personality, and best-selling author. He is a former consulting psychologist for Good Morning America and a frequent guest on American Morning with Paula Zahn, The View, Oprah, Today, The Early Show, and Focus on the Family with Dr. James Dobson. Dr. Leman is founder and cohost of realFAMILIES and president of Couples of Promise. He and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children