Not smart enough, not ready, not worthy: Thanh Nguyen names the three thoughts that make people hold back and takes them apart in twelve small shifts of mind.

Readical Key Points

• Self-help guide built around twelve short "mini-shifts" for self-doubt, perfectionism and the inner critic, with personal stories and reflection exercises
• Foreword by Jack Canfield
• Starred review from Kirkus Reviews; also reviewed in Publishers Weekly's BookLife
• Paperback from Loving Heart Publishing, published December 8, 2025, 182 pages

Nguyen combines the shifts with stories from her own life and reflection exercises to write through. The publisher describes her path from an immigrant teenager who rarely spoke up to an engineering executive, professor and speaker, and the book presents the steps she says she used along the way. The publisher calls the tone no-nonsense and heart-driven; Kirkus calls the method incremental.

This paperback suits readers who already know the pattern of second-guessing themselves and want a structured way to practice something different, and it is classed under mentoring and coaching as well as self-esteem. Nguyen lays out twelve shifts; making any of them stick is the reader's work, and the exercises do not replace counseling where self-doubt runs deeper than habit.

About the Author

Thanh Nguyen is a leadership coach who, according to her publisher, has worked as an engineering executive, professor and speaker. Unshrink Yourself received a starred review from Kirkus.

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