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The Undervalued Self: Restore Your Love/Power Balance, Transform the Inner Voice That Holds You Back, and Find Your True Self-Worth
Elaine Aron follows up her bestsellers on the highly sensitive person with a groundbreaking new book on the undervalued self. She explains that self-esteem results from having a healthy balance of love and power in our lives. Readers will learn to incorporate love into situations that seem to require power and deal with power struggles that mask themselves as issues of lov...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
March 8th 2010
by Little, Brown and Company
(first published 2009)
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From my blog...[return]The Undervalued Self by Dr. Elaine N. Aron is written to help people realise everyone has an underlying self, that inner voice that proclaims one is not good enough or worthy and Dr. Aron's book sets out to help readers to identify the causes of the undervalued self and how to combat these causes. Dr. Aron has laid her book out in a very straight forward and easy to follow manner. She has broken the book down into nine chapters. The first two describe the undervalued self...more
What an odd book. I picked it up because I value the author's previous groundbreaking work, "The Highly Sensitive Person," (and "HSP in Love") in which she explores a minority of the population (like me) who are prone to deep reflection and feelings of being overwhelmed by the world. Because she understands these special characteristics, which tend to be misunderstood as shyness and dismissed as signs of weakness in our highly competitive society, I thought for sure she'd have something groundbr...more
Never judge a book by its cover(most of the time). I read this book in an afternoon/evening. There are parts that are quite relevant to my way of thinking. The tools provided (using the terms in this book as a way of relating to the outside world) have already proven useful.
If you are open to changing the construct of your own thought patterns pertaining to negative self talk, this is a wonderful read. But in order for this book to serve purpose, there must be a willingness to face the facts.
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If you are open to changing the construct of your own thought patterns pertaining to negative self talk, this is a wonderful read. But in order for this book to serve purpose, there must be a willingness to face the facts.
S...more
Sep 06, 2010
Wendy Reiersen
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This book is about linking and ranking. We need to connect with others and be accepted. We do also need to be aware of our place in the pecking order. Usually, we need more linking, and linking generally feels better. Seeking for linking and getting ranking instead doesn't feel good. So far (I've read the first chapter), this book explains a lot, and has the potential to be empowering.
Everyone has a part of them that is undervalued so this can be a valuable book for anyone. However, if you are someone who suffers from low self esteem due to life circumstances or natural disposition, this book may be a great help to you. It is a cognitive behavioral approach that assists with some of the self talk that causes us to undervalue. I recommend it highly.
Chapters 2 & 3- awesome! Totally gave me a good idea of my self-protection tendencies, schema, and motivations. Quite enlightening and useful.
Rest of the book- Linking! Rating! linking, linking, rating, linking, linking, rating. Try to link! Don't rate! link, link, link, rate, link... :P
Feel this should have been a short essay rather than a 240pg book.
Rest of the book- Linking! Rating! linking, linking, rating, linking, linking, rating. Try to link! Don't rate! link, link, link, rate, link... :P
Feel this should have been a short essay rather than a 240pg book.
This compelling and simple read of a complex problem makes me want to read Aron's other book entitled, The Highly Sensitive Person. Although, Aron doesn't indicate she is a Jungian, she follows his theory to a T: she calls the inner child, the Innocent; she calls the negative aspects of the archetypes the Protector/Persecutor (btw, Kalshed labeled it the same way); and she describes the awareness and attentiveness to the unconscious as being requisite for a valued self. Very practical, clear and...more
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the author of the book about my kind
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Interesting to see how the other half lives...
I won this on Goodreads.
I didn't finish this book. I just couldn't get into it.
I didn't finish this book. I just couldn't get into it.
I won this book through the First Reads giveaway. I received it today!
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