Do you live on the plastic-covered couch of social anxiety? You know the feeling. A social event appears on your calendar, and the cheerful music of your day cuts out. You retreat into the stiff, formal "Living Room" of your mind, a space designed for one purpose: performing "Okayness". It’s an exhausting place where you sit bolt upright on the rock-hard Couch of People-Pleasing, pretending it's comfortable. But the problem isn’t just one room. The whole house of your mind feels haunted. The Kitchen pantry is stocked with "Comparison Crackers" and cans of "Instant Self-Criticism". The Attic is filled with the dusty, forgotten ghosts of your past selves. And in the Basement, the true monsters—like Anxietor, the beast of anxiety, and the slimy Shame Slug—are running the show from the shadows. What if you weren't the screaming villager in this B-movie, but the Director? What if you could stop playing a two-dimensional side character and finally become the star of your own life? Drawing on his unique experience as a veteran and hypnotherapist, Jonathon Montague provides a practical, witty, and deeply compassionate guide to renovating your inner world, room by room. This is not a book about fighting your demons; it’s a manual for giving them better direction. In The Plastic-Covered Couch, you will learn how to: • Meet Anxietor, your anxiety, and discover he’s not a villain but a frantic, overzealous bodyguard you can retrain. • Expose your Inner Critic as the "Unreliable Narrator" he is and shatter his authority with a powerful, simple audio technique. • Audit your "Subconscious Pantry" to identify and stop consuming the junk food thoughts that have left you emotionally malnourished. • Enter the "Writer's Room" of your mind to challenge and rewrite the obsolete, limiting beliefs that have kept you stuck in reruns. • Install a "Calm Anchor," a simple physical cue you can use to interrupt panic and take back control of any scene. • Become the casting director of your life, giving more screen time to your Allies and writing the "Energy Vampires" out of the script. It's time to take the plastic off the couch, find your mark, and start your next season. The script feels true, the set is ready, and the director's chair is waiting. Your show is about to begin