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1 online resource |
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Healing Your Emotional Self; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: How Your Parents Shaped Your Self-Esteem, Self-Image, and Body Image; Chapter 1: Our Parents as Mirrors; Self-Esteem Defined; The Real Cause of Your Low Self-Esteem or Negative Self-Image; "Inner Critic" Defined; Emotional Abuse and Neglect Defined; The Role of Shame in Creating Low Self-Esteem and Perfectionism; How Emotional Abuse and Neglect Affect Your Sense of Self; How Parents Act as Mirrors; Chapter 2: The Seven Types of Negative Parental Mirrors; The Neglectful or Inadequate Parent |
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The Abandoning or Rejecting ParentThe Smothering, Possessive, or Intrusive Parent; The Overly Controlling, Tyrannical Parent; The Perfectionistic Parent; Hypercritical, Shaming Parents; The Self-Absorbed or Narcissistic Parent; Chapter 3: Your Body as a Mirror; Obsessors and Avoiders; How Is Our Body Image Created?; Do You Judge Yourself Accurately?; Peer Acceptance and Rejection; The Effects of Emotional Abuse, Neglect, and Smothering on Our Body Image; Chapter 4: How Mirror Therapy Works; The Basic Premises of Mirror Therapy; Mirroring and Projection; How to Use This Book |
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Part II: Shattering Your Distorted Parental MirrorChapter 5: Rejecting Your Parents' Negative Reflection; Shattering Your Distorted Image; Psychological Truths of the Week; Chapter 6: Emotionally Separating from Your Parents; Enmeshment; Complete Your Unfinished Business; Resolve Your Relationships with Your Parents and Other Abusers; Facing the Pain and Confusion of Emotional Separation; Psychological Truths of the Week; Chapter 7: Quieting and Countering Your Inner Critic; Your Inner Critic; When Your Inner Critic Becomes a Saboteur |
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Replacing Your Critical Voice with a More Positive, Nurturing VoicePsychological Truths of the Week; Part III: Creating a New Mirror; Chapter 8: Looking Deeper into the Mirror; Reconnect with Your Body and Your Emotions; Learning about Yourself through Your Emotions; Being Aware of Your Emotions Can Help You to Change Them; Fill Up Your Emptiness with Your Own Feelings; Discover Your Essence; Shedding Your Idealized Self-Image and Embracing Who You Really Are; Psychological Truths of the Week; Chapter 9: Providing for Yourself What You Missed as a Child |
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How to Provide Empathetic Mirroring for YourselfCreating a Nurturing Inner Voice (Mothering); Your Need for Structure (Fathering); Creating Balance in Your Life; Becoming Your Own Responsive Parent; A Self-Care Assessment; Learning How to Soothe Yourself in Healthy Ways; Treating Ourselves the Way Our Parents Treated Us; Psychological Truths of the Week; Chapter 10: Learning to Love Your Body; Connecting with Your Body; Your Body as a Teacher; Your Body's Story; Our Parents, Our Bodies; Valuing Your Body; Loving Yourself; Psychological Truths of the Week; Part IV: Specialized Help |
| Summary |
AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance. In Healing Your Emotional Self, Beverly Engel provides a program to help readers raise their self-esteem, quiet their inner critic, and overcome their shame. Those who were emotionally abused or neglected in childhood tend to suffer from self-criticism, low self-esteem, self-doubt, a poor body image, perfectionism, and unhealthy shame. Now renowned psychotherapist Beverly Engel presents a psychologically sound, step-by-step program to help adult survivors heal the damage to their self-image caused by negative |
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Chapter 11: If You Were Neglected, Rejected, or Abandoned |
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age.
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SELF-HELP -- Affirmations.
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SELF-HELP -- Inner Child.
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SELF-HELP -- Motivational & Inspirational.
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SELF-HELP -- Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- General.
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Self-Esteem.
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118246818 |
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1118246810 |
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9781118246801 |
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1118246802 |
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