Healing your emotional self
Subtitle: a powerful program to help you raise your self-esteem, quiet your inner critic, and overcome your shame
By: Beverly Engel.
Publisher: J. Wiley
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Mental health.; Self-esteem.; Self-care, Health.; Psychology, Pathological.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Our parents as mirrors; title: The seven negative parental mirrors; title: Your body as a mirror; title: Mirror therapy; title: Rejecting your parents' negative reflections; title: Emotionally separating from your parents; title: Quieting and countering your inner critic; title: Looking deeper into the mirror: discovering the real you; title: Providing for yourself what you missed as a child; title: Learning to love your body; title: If you were neglected, rejected, or abandoned: rejecting the "I am worthless" and "I am unlovable" mirrors; title: If you were overprotected or emotionally smothered: rejecting the "I am nothing without my parent" mirror; title: If you were overly controlled or tyrannized: rejecting the "I am powerless" mirror; title: If you had overly critical, shaming or perfectionistic parents: rejecting the "I am bad," "I am unacceptable," and "I am not good enough" mirrors; title: If you had a self-absorbed or narcissistic parent: rejecting the "I don't matter" mirror; title: Continuing to heal.