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Healing Your Emotional Self by Beverly Engel


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Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame is a self-help book by Beverly Engel, a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 30 years of experience. Published in 2006, the book addresses the impact of negative parental messages on self-image and self-esteem, offering strategies for healing and personal growth.

Key Features:

  • Mirror Therapy Program: Engel introduces a step-by-step program designed to help readers reject distorted self-images projected by abusive or neglectful parents.

  • Identifying Parental Mirrors: The book explores seven types of emotionally abusive or neglectful parents and the corresponding negative parental mirrors, providing specific advice and recovery strategies for each.

  • Self-Nurturing Techniques: Engel emphasizes the importance of self-nurturing and setting effective limits to control tendencies toward self-destructive behaviors.

  • Developing a Positive Self-Image: The program includes exercises to create a positive self-image separate from the distorted picture presented by abusive parents.

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