Breaking the Chain of Low Self-Esteem
by Marilyn Sorensen
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Author: Marilyn SorensenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-15
ISBN: 0966431588
Number of pages: 302
Publisher: Wolf Publishing Company
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Book Review: One of the most important books I'v ever read
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a life changing book for sure. Low Self-Esteem is so trivialized that most people just try not to pay much attention to it or follow simple advice given in magazines. What I didn't know is how much LSE affects every area of a person's life, like realtionships, professional life, being a parent (low self esteem passes on). There are so many emotional/mental issues a person can suffer from and we just tend to think about them as simple personality defects. Nobody thinks twice about them let alone link them to LSE.
I wanted to have healthy self esteem and not have to live with all that pain so I tried to buy the best possible book on the subject and started to research self-esteem books. That's when I find this one.
It was like a book written about and only for you and the problems you've always felt but didn't even know had names and didn't even know they are part of low self-esteem!
While it absolutely devastated me the first time I read this book and was painful to face the memories (cried a lot too), but managed to finish the book and it was absolutely worth it!
Chapter 1, Low Self-Esteem: What is it?
How is This Negative View Formed?
Who Suffers from Low Self-Esteem?
Sorensen Self-Esteem Test
C2, Facing Fear and Anxiety
Four Specific Fears Accompanying Low Self-Esteem
Two Extremes: Underachievers and Overachivers
Attaining New Skills: Floaters and Paddlers
C3,When Life is a Minefield
The Self-Esteem Attack
Triggering Incidents
Memory Loss
C4 Ending the Self-Sabotage
Rigidity
Getting Needs Met through Others
Two Extremes: Noisy Reactors and Quiet Reactors
C5, Learning to be alone
The Experience of Being Alone
Being Alone: The Real Issues for Those with LSE
Extroversion and Introversion
Why Even Be in a Relationship
C6, Listening to and Controlling Our Inner Voice
Self-Talk
Distorted Thinking
Two Extremes: Superiority or Inferiority
Comparison with Others
Feelings Can Be Changed
C7, The Search for Unconditional Love
Feeling Unlovable
The Need to Be Loved and Accepted
When Trust is Broken
Feelings Ignored and Devalued
The Anger-Guilt Cycle
C8, The Relentless Pursuit of Validation
The Set-up and Testing
Two Extremes in Relating
Counting Behaviors
Scenarios
Hidden Agendas
Unequal Partners
C9 Altering the Patterns of LSE
Stage 1: The Critical Incident
Stage 2: Devastation
S3: Anger
S4: Scenario-Building
S5: Confrontation
S6: Return to Rationality
Assertive, Passive, Aggressive, and Passive-Aggressive
C10 Empowered to Build a New Life
The Process of Change
Why the Need for Therapy
How to Choose a Therapist
Also, at the end of each chapter there are writing excercises help you dig deep down and bring up long forgotten or even unrealized incidents from your past. Personally, they have been very helpful and a big first step but not enough to "cure" LSE. There is a companion Workbook which can be purchased separately and can be done along with this book. She suggests to read Breaking the Chain of LSE first then do the Workbook where at certain sections you will be redirected to this book. So you'll be working from the two together at times.
What I really liked was that the Author not only explains LSE very thoroughly in every day language but through stories as well. After the stories She often has a little section; "A note of comparison with those with healthy self-esteem" where she explains how a person with healthy self esteem would have reacted to that particular situtation in the story. I've find this very useful since I wondered many times in my life what would have been the appropriate behaviour/reaction on my part.
I hope this helped.
Summary of Breaking the Chain of Low Self-Esteem
Marilyn Sorensen is the Founder and Director of The Self-Esteem Institute in Portland,Oregon. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of six books. As a self-published author, her first edition of this book has sold over 50,000 copies and is now available in five languages.
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