Healing Your Emotional Self or PDR Guide to over the Counter Drugs

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

Author: Beverly Engel

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 shouldread."
—Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., author of Are You the One for Me?

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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PDR Guide to Over-The-Counter Drugs

Author: Staff of Physicians Desk Referenc

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