Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your SelfEsteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your S

Healing Your Emotional SelfEmotionally abusive parents are indeed toxic parents, and they cause significant damage to their childrens selfesteem, selfimage, and body image. In this remarkable book, Beverly Engel shares her powerful Mirror Therapy program for helping adult survivors to overcome their shame and selfcriticism, become more compassionate and accepting of themselves, and create a more posititve selfimage. I strongly recommend it for anyone who was abused or neglected as a child.Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of Toxic ParentsIn 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. Engles 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 IntimacyThe Emotionally Abusive RelationshipBeverly Engel clearly and with caring offers stepbystep 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 AbuseLoving Him without Losing YouA powerful and practical guide to relationships that every woman should read.Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., author of Are You the One for Me?