Unlocking the Secrets of Self-Esteem: A Guide to Building Confidence and Connection One Step at a Time

If you don’t feel good about yourself, it can be difficult to reach your goals and live a happy, meaningful life. You may have already read countless books on building self-esteem, but after a while you end up right where you started―feeling like you just aren’t good enough. So, what are the real secrets to genuine, lasting self-esteem?

Most books on self-esteem tell you that you should feel good about yourself, but they don’t show you how to put self-esteem into action. In this book, psychologist Marie Hartwell-Walker offers a groundbreaking new approach to self-esteem based in mindfulness and positive psychology. This book provides practical, step-by-step strategies and skills to help you develop feelings of competency, gain resiliency, rebuild self-confidence, and feel good by engaging in positive actions.

Self-confidence is more than just a way of being―it’s a way of doing! By taking steps to solve problems and overcome roadblocks by helping yourself (and others!), you will learn to practice self-confidence, rather than just think about it. If you’re ready to learn the secrets to genuine self-esteem, and put what you’ve learned into action, this book will show you how.

Marie Hartwell-Walker, EdD, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist in Massachusetts. She has a master's degree in counseling psychology from the Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago, and a master’s and doctoral degree from the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has authored numerous articles on psychology, parenting, and family life, is currently a feature writer and advice columnist for psychcentral.com and contributes to the divorce page of huffingtonpost.com.

Foreword writer John M. Grohol, PsyD, is founder, CEO, and editor in chief of psychcentral.com, the Internet’s largest and oldest independent mental health social network. Since 1995, psychcentral.com has offered reliable, trusted information about mental health, psychology, social work, and psychiatry, and has hosted over 200 support groups for its readers. Grohol is coauthor of Self-Help That Works, author of The Insider’s Guide to Mental Health Resources Online, and a published researcher.