Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame

Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame

by Beverly Engel
Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame

Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame

by Beverly Engel

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Overview

In Healing Your Emotional Self, Beverly Engel, one of the world's leading experts on emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, explains how to heal the damage to your self-image and self-esteem caused by negative parental messages and offers treatment to help you lead a happier and healthier life. This breakthrough guide is designed to help you reject the distorted images your parents either intentionally or unintentionally projected onto you. Step by step, this innovative method will give you the skills you need to quiet your inner critic, boost your self-esteem, create a positive self-image separate from your abusive parents' distorted picture, discover who you really are, learn self-nurturing, and become the person you are meant to be.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470893388
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 05/25/2010
Sold by: JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 376 KB

About the Author

BEVERLY ENGEL is an internationally recognized expert in emotional and sexual abuse. She is the author of several other self-help books, including the highly successful The Emotionally Abusive Relationship, Loving Him without Losing You, and The Emotionally Abused Woman. Engel conducts workshops and professional training programs and has appeared on many national television shows, including Oprah, Starting Over, Donahue, and Ricki Lake.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
How Your Parents Shape Your Self-Esteem, Self-Image, and Body Image
Our Parents as Mirrors     9
The Seven Types of Negative Parental Mirrors     29
Your Body as a Mirror     63
How Mirror Therapy Works     77
Shattering Your Distorted Parental Mirror
Rejecting Your Parents' Negative Reflection     87
Emotionally Separating from Your Parents     104
Quieting and Countering Your Inner Critic     117
Creating a New Mirror
Looking Deeper into the Mirror: Discovering the Real You     139
Providing for Yourself What You Missed as a Child     156
Learning to Love Your Body     175
Specialized Help
If You Were Neglected, Rejected, or Abandoned: Healing the "I Am Unlovable" and "I Am Worthless" Mirrors     187
If You Were Overprotected or Emotionally Smothered: Healing the "I Am Nothing without My Parent" Mirror     204
If You Were Overly Controlled or Tyrannized: Healing the "I Am Powerless" Mirror     212
If You Had Overly Critical, Shaming, or Perfectionistic Parents: Healing the "I Am Bad," "I Am Unacceptable," and "I Am Not Good Enough" Mirrors     220
If You Had a Self-Absorbed or Narcissistic Parent: Healing the "I Don't Matter" Mirror     229
Continuing to Heal     238
Recommended Therapies     243
References     249
Recommended Reading     251
Index     255
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