BOOK

The book is an introduction to the fundamental principles behind every human experience - The 3 Principles.

It is a rewritten, streamlined version of selected episodes of the podcast, "Sara and the 3Ps", with added insights and reflections.

I (the book's author, psychologist, mother and everything else) take you on an honest and liberatingly frivolous journey through the psychological processes that form the basis of the reality we all live in.

I use myself and my own experiences as a starting point to illustrate how we all get lost in life sometimes. From there, I point out how we can find a new and easier path through life. A path where we listen to the inner wisdom that, fortunately, we all have.

Foreword by Mette Louise Holland

When I started studying psychology many years ago, I quickly learned the premise of non-fiction: The books were not written to entertain me. And perhaps, in fact, not with the first priority that I should be able to easily understand what was written in them. Rather, it seemed as if the books were written on the premise that they should have the highest possible lix number and as many complicated and difficult words (which, of course, are called technical terms in university language) as possible. I learned many things at university, but I never quite understood why the books had to be so inaccessible and, frankly, in most cases, quite boring.

It is therefore with great pleasure that I have been asked to write the foreword to this new book on psychology. Thankfully, psychologist Sara Spangsberg writes in a completely different way than the authors of university curricula. With this book, Sara fills a previously sadly empty and neglected niche: fun and accessible psychology books.

Thank you, Sara, for new and more fun technical terms such as: annoying, bummer and miserable. Thank you for metaphors like inner drama queens, megalomaniacal intellects, consultants from hell, paranoid social security guards, psychological training wheels, sawed-off ladies and thought speakers. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. I wish you had written all the books at university, I think I would have had more fun while I was studying.

But make no mistake: it's not that Sara's words don't carry weight. I would venture to say that there isn't a psychology book on the university reading list that can match Sara's. In fact, I would argue that you as a reader will learn more about your own psychology by reading this book than by reading all the books in the psychology program combined. And what you learn as you read will change your life. Nothing less. So, is it because Sara is brilliant? Well, we can always argue about that (I know Sara will vehemently deny it). And I also know that Sara will agree with me that what you'll get out of reading this book has nothing to do with Sara. It has everything to do with the understanding Sara shares in this book. Because while she entertains you with her homemade, wonderful and crazy jargon and all the anecdotes from her life, she also guides you into the world's most wonderful and helpful understanding of the human mind. The only understanding you need to know if you want to thrive and enjoy life while we're here.

Happy reading!

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Mette Louise Holland
Licensed psychologist and author of Dit selvhelbredende Sind