Books by Lawrence V. Fernandes
Explore what may be operating beneath the way you live.
Three books examine Survival Mechanisms, the constructed Self, and the recurring patterns that influence emotions, relationships, decisions, communication style, thinking style, and behavior.
Understand how your Survival Mechanism and the Self govern your core system, about which you are clueless. Learn how these mechanisms shape your identity and personality traits.

Connecting patterns across everyday life
Survival Games People Play
Do you know how you are self-sabotaging your own progress?
"Survival Games People Play" explores the hidden patterns that shape emotions, relationships, decisions, ambitions, and everyday behavior. Bringing together Lawrence V. Fernandes’s concepts of the Survival Mechanism, the Self, and the True Self, the book examines how early adaptations continue to influence adult life without conscious awareness. It invites readers to recognize expectations, unfinished business, self-sabotage, recurring conflicts, and the roles they repeatedly perform. By questioning what operates beneath familiar reactions and identities, readers can begin to see the survival games they play. The book offers a path toward deeper awareness, conscious choice, freedom, and authentic living in everyday life.
Two children raised by the same parents, in the same home, and attending the same school still develop different personalities. What makes them different?

YOUR INNER BLUEPRINT
Stop Surviving Start Living With Freedom
DO YOU KNOW WHICH Survival Mechanism IS OPERATING YOU?
"Stop Surviving Start Living with Freedom" introduces Lawrence V. Fernandes’s concept of the Survival Mechanism and its three core patterns: Wanted Child, Partly Wanted Child, and Unwanted Child. The book explores how experiences surrounding acceptance, uncertainty, expectations, and belonging can shape beliefs, emotions, communication, relationships, decisions, and behavior. It helps readers identify the strengths and limitations that may arise from each pattern and recognize how automatic survival responses continue into adult life. Through reflection and insight, the book invites readers to understand what has been governing their choices, move beyond familiar conditioning, and begin living with awareness, freedom, and authenticity.
The question is not whether you have an SOS. You do.
The question is whether you understand yours.

Looking beneath identity and roles
The Self Decoded
Do you know the Self that you call your-self?
"The Self Decoded" explores how the identity we call “Self” is formed through roles, relationships, expectations, ownership, and the responses of others. Lawrence V. Fernandes examines how people may become attached to identities such as child, partner, parent, professional, successful person, or failure—and begin living according to the demands of those roles. The book invites readers to question whether the Self is their true nature or a structure created for survival and belonging. By recognizing how identity shapes emotions, decisions, conflicts, and relationships, readers can begin loosening familiar definitions and move toward awareness, freedom, and an authentic experience of being.
The Self shapes how you maintain your relationships. It’s time you got some insight into your relationships.
Understanding can be a place to begin
Reading may help you recognize the pattern. Therapy can help you explore it personally.
If something in these ideas connects with what you are experiencing, you can explore the therapeutic approach or arrange a private first conversation.
