Are you tired of how Shy Bowel (i.e. Parcopresis) restricts your life? Or are you helping someone who is suffering from Shy Bowel? Perhaps you have a partner or close friend who's Shy Bowel affects your relationship with them in different ways?

Then this is the book for you! Focusing exclusively on Shy Bowel, it does so not only in terms of explaining how Shy Bowel occurs, how much it can affect sufferers' lives and why it is such a taboo problem, but also in terms of how to begin recovery from the condition.

Using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) centred approach, the book outlines how you can work with your thought processes and behaviours around Shy Bowel in order to update your subconscious beliefs around poohing. Ultimately it may help re-educate your subconscious nervous system into a more relaxed state of being so that you are less affected by Shy Bowel and it does not restrict or control your life nearly so much.

About the author:

Baz Chalabi is himself a sufferer of Shy Bowel and Shy Bladder. He has done extensive work on himself in terms of both of his Shy Bowel and his Shy Bladder recovery. He understands from firsthand experience the obstacles that stand in the way of applying CBT to Shy Bowel. However he has developed a system in which CBT can be 'tweaked' in order to help with recovery from Shy Bowel. Whilst he still has Shy Bowel and Shy Bladder, he is in recovery from both of them and is able to live a much freer and joyful life as a result.

He set up the Parcopresis Help Site in 2003. Since there was no specific name for the condition at that time - and with the help of both Steve Soifer and Professor Alex Gardner - he coined the terms 'Shy Bowel' and 'Parcopresis' to describe it. Baz Chalabi has made a number of appearances in the British media talking about both Shy Bowel and Shy Bladder, including appearing on national television and national radio. He is a trustee on the board of the UKPT (UK Paruresis Trust).