Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30210 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 316 pages

Synopsis
A program for challenging the "inner critic" begins with the premise that destructive interior messages played over and over can hold a person back and offers practical advice on how to stop this negative behavior.

Customer Reviews

An excellent look at self-esteem and how to improve it.
An excellent book. Straight forward and easy to read. Good suggestions and exercises that really work! Great to just pick up and read by topic or cover to cover.

An instructive guide on enhancing self-esteem
Each individual manifests self-esteem, or the lack of it, differently. Generally, people with strong self-esteem had parents who nurtured them constantly during their early childhood, while those with low self-esteem often did not. Can people with low self-esteem build it as adults? Yes, because self-esteem is how you feel about yourself, and your thoughts control your feelings. If you take command of your thoughts, you can take command of your feelings, including your sense of self. In this fine book on self-esteem, Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning show you how to banish regressive "stinking thinking" and the nasty inner critic that inevitably tries to flatten your self-esteem. You can use their instructive "cognitive techniques" to elevate your self-esteem, develop self-assurance and feel better about yourself. getAbstract finds McKay and Fanning's book warm and practical. If their self-esteem is high, there's a good reason.

Full of life changing insight
Dealing with the self esteem issues is certainly a key to a better, richer, self-loving and relaxed life experience. If you feel ready to start tackling this, reading this book is an excellent place to start.

This is not a book that you can just read from cover to cover, it's best to take your time with it (no problem if you're reading something else in parallel). Every chapter is full of life changing insight and transforming exercises. Although the topic is a complex one, authors still managed to tell their story in a light and readable way.

Even reading and exercising only a part of the book will be useful. I also recommend picking this book up as a complement to another area of life you might be trying to change - as a self loving and self trusting approach to change will be far more effective.

Have a happy life! :-)