Are you struggling to feel effective in your life and relationships? Do you feel that you are waiting for life to begin, are no longer in the driver's seat, or are unmotivated to make necessary changes?

In I May Have Pushed Your Buttons, But I Didn't Install Them, Jennifer Swantkowski, drawing from her three decades of experience in the therapist's chair, provides simple yet thought-provoking and invaluable insights to help her readers slow down, reclaim a sense of agency and infuse their work, play and relationships with meaning and purpose.

Through anecdotes and recollections from working with clients as well as her own personal journey, Buttons provides the reader with 52 profound and concise pearls of practical wisdom that are presented in a straightforward narrative.

Woven throughout this collection of vignettes and observations is the recurring theme of personal responsibility and holding ourselves accountable for our predispositions, attitudes, and mindsets and how they affect our perceptions about adversity, success, love, and life. Most importantly, readers will appreciate this book for its simple and memorable takeaways; easily recalled when their own choices get in their way of living and loving effectively.