Building Self-Esteem: A Guide to Achieving Self-Acceptance & a Healthier, Happier Life - Guide - Softcover

MacCutcheon LPC, Megan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990413403 ISBN 13: 9780990413400

Publisher: Balancing Project Press, 2014

Synopsis

Low self-esteem can negatively impact all facets of your life, including happiness, success, relationships, and academics/career. This workbook, along with the "Building Self-Esteem: A Guide to Achieving Self-Acceptance & a Healthier, Happier Life - Journal Companion" (ISBN 978-0990413417), will help you explore various concepts of self-esteem and self-worth, and will teach tools to help you develop a more positive identity.Topics addressed include understanding the internal and external messages that contribute to self-esteem, learning to build better boundaries in relationships, developing more assertiveness, effectively dealing with criticisms and compliments, understanding body image issues, and learning to implement better self-care. The same tools useful in building self-esteem can also help individuals to decrease depression, manage anxiety, and feel better and more fulfilled overall.Discover how both your conscious and subconscious thoughts contribute to how you feel about yourself, and begin to identify and challenge your thinking to create a more positive sense-of-self. This workbook will help you learn how to better care for yourself to achieve a healthier, happier you.

About this title

About the Author

Megan MacCutcheon, M.Ed., LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a private therapy practice in Vienna, Virginia. Megan provides individual and group therapy to children, adolescents, and adults. Megan specializes in helping individuals to build self-esteem and manage stress, and has extensive experience in working with victims of sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and domestic violence. Megan also teaches a Building Self-Esteem workshop at The Women's Center (www.thewomenscenter.org), a local nonprofit counseling agency, where she completed an internship and residency, and worked as a therapist and Domestic Violence Systems Advocate. Megan obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication from Boston University and completed a Master of Education in Counseling and Development at George Mason University. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and Northern Virginia Licensed Professional Counselors. For more information, please visit www.meganmaccutcheon.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Balancing Project Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0990413403
• ISBN 13: 9780990413400
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208