The Woman's Guide to Total Self-Esteem: The Eight Secrets You Need to Know

by Stephanie Dillon

In this book, a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst team up to help women confront their old destructive beliefs and begin to reconstruct healthy self-esteem. Through stories and more than fifty step-by-step exercises, this book will help you heal old wounds and learn what you can do to repair each of the eight essential building blocks of self esteem. Find out how to assess your individual strengths and weaknesses and discover ways to test your new skills at work, at home, and in your relationships. Learn to see setbacks as opportunities to grow stronger and more resilient and thereby create a deeper and more lasting self-esteem.

180 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

Reviews

[Ashleigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly, this book had a lot of great content, which I did not expect from the unassuming cover. My expectations were that there would be some vague, general tips that I'd largely ignore, but honestly? I so appreciated the approach the authors took here. By diving into the societal expectations and experiences of women, it got deep into the full reasoning for emotional dysregulation, body dysphoria, people-pleasing, and more. Tons of exercises and examples made the research more tangible, and I could easily see this being a great workbook for a lot of people. Apart from its strict adherence to the gender binary and a few too many visualization exercises for me, I enjoyed this. Not bad for a 23-year-old book written to a general audience.

Content warnings for discussion of misogyny, trauma, suicide, infidelity, disordered eating, and general mental health.

[Rolaka Pisarka · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stara i toporna książka, światopogląd się zmienił, zmienili się ludzie. Poza tym to bardziej ksiażka dla przyszłych psychologów, a nie zwyczajnych ludzi, którzy chcą przeczytać coś ciekawego i znaleźć w miarę zrozumiałe sposoby na zdrowie psychiczne