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

Introduction.

Part One. How Your Parents Shape Your Self-Esteem, Self-Image, and Body Image.

1 Our Parents as Mirrors.

2 The Seven Types of Negative Parental Mirrors.

3 Your Body as a Mirror.

4 How Mirror Therapy Works.

Part Two.   Shattering Your Distorted Parental Mirror.

5 Rejecting Your Parents’ Negative Reflection.

6 Emotionally Separating from Your Parents.

7 Quieting and Countering Your Inner Critic.

Part Three.   Creating a New Mirror.

8 Looking Deeper into the Mirror: Discovering the Real You.

9 Providing for Yourself What You Missed as a Child.

10 Learning to Love Your Body.

Part Four. Specialized Help.

11 If You Were Neglected, Rejected, or Abandoned: Healing the “I Am Unlovable” and “I Am Worthless” Mirrors.

12 If You Were Overprotected or Emotionally Smothered: Healing the “I Am Nothing without My Parent” Mirror.

13 If You Were Overly Controlled or Tyrannized: Healing the “I Am Powerless” Mirror.

14 If You Had Overly Critical, Shaming, or Perfectionistic Parents: Healing the “I Am Bad,” “I Am Unacceptable,” and “I Am Not Good Enough” Mirrors.

15 If You Had a Self-Absorbed or Narcissistic Parent: Healing the “I Don’t Matter” Mirror.

16 Continuing to Heal.

Appendix: Recommended Therapies.

References.

Recommended Reading.

Index.