Synopses & Reviews
Life is hard. But it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out. In How Am I Doing?, you're invited into a series of conversations with yourself to improve your mental health as you discover your purpose, honor your story, and explore who you want to be.
Dr. Corey Yeager, psychotherapist for the NBA's Detroit Pistons and most recently featured on Oprah and Prince Harry's The Me You Can't See on Apple TV+, offers you 40 questions to help you raise awareness of your thoughts and emotions and reconnect with who you want to be.
Over the course of these 40 conversations with yourself, you're invited to:
• Build trust with yourself
• Consider how past traumas affect your life today
• Grow a practice of positive self-talk
• Let go of guilt and regret from your past
• Develop mental health strategies for what to for moments when you're depressed or anxious
• Increase your confidence and embrace your emotions
Each of the 40 questions is paired with a short, thoughtful reflection from Dr. Yeager, along with prompts and self-care strategies to help you look at yourself in the mirror and come into alignment with who you want to be.
So join the conversation; nothing is off-limits here. Come check in with yourself and take these small, simple steps to journey toward a more honest and harmonious way of living.
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“Yeager's prose is lean and direct, and the thoughtful reflection prompts that end each chapter provide a bounty of useful strategies for putting the principles into practice.”
Publisher's Weekly
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“A good guided-reflection resource with thoughtful cues for initiating a deep conversation with oneself.”
Library Journal
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“Yeager's winning insights deliver a slam-dunk of empowered inspiration bound to elicit tremendous personal reward.”
Shelf Awareness
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“A practical and engaging roadmap for self-awareness. Dr. Yeager's simple exercises and relatable anecdotes provide a powerful roadmap for better understanding yourself, and in turn, others.”
Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of Dear Therapists podcast
About the Author
Best known for his appearance on Harry and Oprah's The Me You Can't See on Apple TV+, Dr. Corey Yeager is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at the Doctoral level, focusing his therapeutic practice primarily serving the African American Community. Dr. Yeager holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Metropolitan State University, a Master of Arts degree in Psychotherapy from Argosy University, and a PhD in Family Social Science from The University of Minnesota. His research emphasis centers on better understanding the plight of African American relationships, while educating service organizations to utilize the family system context while facilitating meaningful change in both their personal and professional lives.
In his current role as the Psychotherapist for the Detroit Pistons, Corey is working within the merging of his two passions, athletics and therapy. In this role, Dr. Yeager supports the overall organization from a systemic and contextual stance. Dr. Yeager supports players, coaching staff, and front office leadership in his conscientious, relational fashion. Dr. Yeager employees the conceptualization of role clarity in his organizational endeavors as a way to build cohesiveness in a deep and intentional way.
Dr. Yeager works diligently to facilitate the advancement of meaningful dialogue surrounding the subject of race and racism. It is in the culminating work that he finds another of his passions. Dr. Yeager has done a vast array of facilitating these "courageous conversations" across the country, working within organizational systems to assess and address the climate and culture of these large systemic spaces. Outside of the NBA, some of his clients include The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), The Smithsonian Institute, The Gersh Agency, and Lola Red. Dr Yeager is also a part of the Engage Speakers Bureau based in Los Angeles.
Dr. Yeager currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife, Carrie, and four sons, Izaiah, Zach, Azrie, and Terrance.