In an emotionally revealing way, Bradshaw shows us how toxic shame is the core problem in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions, and the drive to superachieve, resulting in the breakdown in the family system and our inability to go forward with our lives.
Toxic parents are those who cause their children emotional or physical pain. The damage they cause manifests itself in adulthood as difficulties with relationships, careers, decision-making, and depression. This helpful guide is by the author of Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them.
Fifteen to 20 percent of the world's population has an abnormally sensitive central nervous system. These Highly Sensitive People, or HSPs, overreact to stimuli and become overwhelmed by events and activities others consider normal. Other problems include excessive irritation from commotion or noise and an intense desire to break away from social ...
In his bestseller Feeling Good, Dr David Burns helped pioneer and popularise cognitive therapy, helping millions to find lasting relief from debilitating depression. Building on that, this book offers a programme for improving mood without drugs.'
This classic guide offering proven cognitive techniques for establishing and maintaining sense of self-worth has been revised to include a new chapter on setting and achieving personal goals.
Based on new brain science--and featuring treatment plans that include medication, diet, supplements, exercise, and social and therapeutic support--this groundbreaking book helps readers conquer anxiety and depression and change the way they think about these potentially devastating disorders.
A pioneer in the field of self-esteem discusses the importance of self-esteem and how one's level of self-esteem can be raised. This is an important and focused book that builds on the author's decades of work.
This is a low-key but tremendously effective approach to banishing the tenacious, self-defeating aspects of your personality. Read it and learn: how simply noticing your gremlin is the first step in taming his power over you; how to experiment playfully with new actions and attitudes; how to realize that your self-concept is just that - only a ...
Revealing her long quest for self-esteem, the author explains what self-esteem is, how crippling a lack of it can be, and how recapturing it can transform our lives. Self-esteem, she believes, is our natural state, a basic human value. But too many of us lose our sense of self-worth early on. Girls are especially vulnerable, often turning from ...
Dr. Harris's ground breaking book on interpersonal relationships was one of the first self-help books to hit the bestseller charts. Using conventions from Transactional Analysis, Harris explores the internal roles of Child, Adult, and Parent and how they help, and hinder, an individual's response to both themselves and to others.
Readers are shown, step by step, how to develop effective self-expression, with an emphasis on equal-relationship assertiveness--not the all-too-common "me first" attitude. Included is information on living in a multicultural society.
Williamson explores the evolving role of women in the world. Drawing deeply and candidly on her own experiences, the author portrays her thought-provoking positions on such issues as beauty and age, relationships and sex, children and careers, and the reassurance and reassertion of the feminine in a patriarchal society.
This companion to "Self-Esteem" is designed with an easy-to-use format and presents a course in self-esteem based on new research. Includes checklists, fill-ins, and exercises that show readers how thoughts, emotions, physical health, and behavior impact their self-esteem. Illustrations.
Antidepressants are a miracle, but to really beat depression we need to change our whole way of thinking. This book is a great introduction to a process--known as cognitive therapy--that can help us do just that. According to David M. Burns, depression results from a process wherein negative thoughts produce distortions of reality. Through a ...
Yoruba priestess Iyanla Vanzant, author of several best selling self-help books, writes about her life from age 2. Much of it is painful, but the healing comes through.
Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full ...
Talk radio hostess Dr. Laura offers some of the same advice that has made her one of the most popular broadcasters on the air today: take responsibility for your own life, take pride in yourself, and conduct your daily affairs with forthright honesty. Speaking with the same pull-no-punches frankness that powered her "Ten Stupid Things Women Do to ...
One of the most widely read books in America after its publication in the 1950s, THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING is a classic in the field that later became known as self-help. Rev. Peale combined Christian spirituality with an awareness of human pychology and modern problems. His writings inspired and brought consolation to his readers. Here, he ...
Arianna Huffington uses stories from her own life, from contemporary women she admires, and from women in history and literature to show how to be bold, how to make yourself bulletproof, and how to act without dreading the reactions of others. As a mother, politician, and businesswoman, Huffington discusses how to be strong, be your best self, and ...
This uplifting daily meditation book by bestselling recovery authors Earnie Larsen and Carol Hegarty tackles the fundamental issue of self-esteem head-on. Presents a meditation for every day of the year, complete with an inspirational quote and thought for the day--all written in a conversational, down-to-earth tone.
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy - both with others and with ourselves - creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take up the spiritual path. In this inspiring book, ...
This book offers celebrity interest with behind the scenes from fashion shows in Milan to P. Diddy's yacht. It has been reviewed in women's magazines eg "Elle", "Marie Claire", and "Easy Living". It will appeal to Urban as well as mainstream readers. Barbie are creating a Kimora Lee Simmons doll. A lifestyle guide from one of pop culture's most ...
A self-help guide written especially for black women, "The Value in the Valley" breaks through the self-destructive belief that suffering or unhappiness is deserved, and guides readers from "valley experiences" through what may seem like insurmountable problems, and it teaches the skills necessary to move beyond them.
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