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Very Valuable

Building and consolidating self-esteem

• building self-esteem – how to do it


Many people are dissatisfied with themselves, their self-esteem has hit a low: they just cannot manage to be the way they should be. But they can also not be what they would like to be – this can be extremely stressful. How can we manage successfully to strengthen our self-esteem, build up a ‘healthy’ self-esteem and consolidate it?

This self-help book guides us towards this goal. It is based on the model in which humans have three perceptions:
• I-am – this is how I really am
• I-should – this is how I actually should be
• I-wish – this is how I would like to be
If these three self-images do not match, self-esteem problems crop up.

The explanations are lively and scientifically well-founded and help to become acquainted with these forms of the ego and explore them. Lots of exercises help to correct the ‘I-am’ ego, to reduce the power of the strong ‘I-should’ ego and gradually achieve a realistic ‘I-wish’.

Contents:
1 Self-esteem problems and the long shadow they cast • 2 What shapes self-esteem? • 3 A great convulsion of power: the self-esteem crisis • 4 Boosting self-esteem • 5 Self-esteem and dealing with needs


Target group
Patients, clients, psychotherapists, psychotherapists in training