Healing Your Emotional Self"Emotionally abusive parents are indeed toxic parents, and theycause significant damage to their children's self-esteem, self-image, and body image. In this remarkable book, Beverly Engelshares her powerful Mirror Therapy program for helping adultsurvivors to overcome their shame and self-criticism, become morecompassionate and accepting of themselves, and create a moreposititve self-image. I strongly recommend it for anyone who wasabused or neglected as a child."--Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents"In this book, Beverly Engel documents the wide range ofpsychological abuses that so many children experience in growingup. Her case examples and personal accounts are poignant andpowerful reminders that as adults, many of us are still limited bythe defenses we formed when trying to protect ourselves in the faceof the painful circumstances we found ourselves in as children.Engle's insightful questionnaires and exercises provide concretehelp in the healing process, and her writing style is lively andengaging. This book is destined to positively affect manylives."--Joyce Catlett, M.A., coauthor of Fear of IntimacyThe Emotionally Abusive Relationship"Beverly Engel clearly and with caring offers step-by-stepstrategies to stop emotional abuse . . . helping both victims andabusers to identify the patterns of this painful and traumatic typeof abuse."--Marti Tamm Loring, Ph.D., author of Emotional AbuseLoving Him without Losing You"A powerful and practical guide to relationships that every womanshould read."--Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., author of Are You the One for Me?words : 80703