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

Engel, Beverly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471725676 ISBN 13: 9780471725671

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Strong new book from our established house self-help author on how to regain your self-esteem while recovering from negative parental messages and treatment

About this title

About the Author

Beverly Engel is an internationally recognized therapist with an expertise in women's issues, relationships, sexuality, and abuse. She is the author of several nonfiction books dealing with women's, abuse, and relationship issues, including the successful Wiley titles The Emotionally Abusive Relationship and Loving Him without Losing You. Engel conducts professional training programs, lectures several times a year, and has appeared on many national television shows, including Oprah, Donahue, Ricki Lake, Sally Jessy Raphael, and other national television shows.

From the Back Cover

Healing Your Emotional Self

"Emotionally abusive parents are indeed toxic parents, and they cause significant damage to their children's self-esteem, self-image, and body image. In this remarkable book, Beverly Engel shares her powerful Mirror Therapy program for helping adult survivors to overcome their shame and self-criticism, become more compassionate and accepting of themselves, and create a more posititve self-image. I strongly recommend it for anyone who was abused or neglected as a child."
—Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents

"In this book, Beverly Engel documents the wide range of psychological abuses that so many children experience in growing up. Her case examples and personal accounts are poignant and powerful reminders that as adults, many of us are still limited by the defenses we formed when trying to protect ourselves in the face of the painful circumstances we found ourselves in as children. Engle's insightful questionnaires and exercises provide concrete help in the healing process, and her writing style is lively and engaging. This book is destined to positively affect many lives."
—Joyce Catlett, M.A., coauthor of Fear of Intimacy

The Emotionally Abusive Relationship

"Beverly Engel clearly and with caring offers step-by-step strategies to stop emotional abuse . . . helping both victims and abusers to identify the patterns of this painful and traumatic type of abuse."
—Marti Tamm Loring, Ph.D., author of Emotional Abuse

Loving Him without Losing You

"A powerful and practical guide to relationships that every woman should read."
—Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., author of Are You the One for Me?

From the Inside Flap

Parents act as a mirror to show a child who she or he is. Throughout childhood there will be other mirrors, but children inevitably return to the reflection in that original mirror in order to determine their goodness, importance, and self-worth. In Healing Your Emotional Self, Engel offers her highly effective Mirror Therapy program to help you reject the distorted images your parents either intentionally or unintentionally projected onto you. She explores the seven types of emotionally abusive or neglectful parents and the seven most common parental mirrors, providing specific advice and recovery strategies for each one.

Helping you raise your self-esteem and improve your self-image, this innovative step-by-step program provides you with the skills you need to:

• Create a positive self-image separate from your abusive parents' distorted picture
• Separate emotionally from your parents and provide for yourself what you missed as a child
• Discover who you really are—including your likes, dislikes, values, goals, and dreams—by creating a word self-portrait and using other Mirror Therapy techniques
• Overcome your tendency toward self-blame, self-hatred, and self-destructiveness
• Learn self-nurturing and set effective limits to help you control your tendency to overeat, drink too much, overspend, and/or overwork
• Become the person you are meant to be by being more accepting of yourself

Learn to love who you see in the mirror with the breakthrough program found in Healing Your Emotional Self.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471725676
• ISBN 13: 9780471725671
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272