Recovery Of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide For Women Reviews
Recovery Of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide For Women
With warmth and encouragement, along with her original ten-step process, Carolynn Hillman puts self-esteem and the accomplishments and real satisfaction it engenders within the reach of every woman. Her straightforward approach to conquering feelings of inadequacy and self-defeating behavior include: * Practicing six key ways of nurturing yourself
* Recognizing and appreciating your good points
* Silencing the inner-critic — and heeding the inner-child
* Breaking the self-imposed
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In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
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By Gloria Nye, Friday @ 9:25 pm
Review by Gloria Nye for Recovery Of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide For Women
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Carolynn Hillman presents an effective way to eliminate the inner-critic with its degrading and put-down voice and teaches us how to replace this with a supportive inner caretaker so that we can truly be our authentic selves. This is the first book that I have found that gets to the root and digs out the cause of poor self-esteem. The first line in Chapter 3,”Why We Are the Way We Are” blew me away. She writes, “We devalue ourselves and treat ourselves in harsh, judgemental, overly critical ways because we have been taught to do so”. Wow, that meant I could unlearn this and eliminate once and for all that self-destroying inner critical voice! I wasn’t born flawed! The author gives clear, specific steps on how to do this and it works. I have been working on my self-esteem for many, many years; reading books, therapy, and praying. The day before I found this book on my friend’s bookshelf,I had asked in anguish and frustration, “How do I do this? How do I be ME?!” This book was the answer. Even before I finished reading it and doing the exercises, I experienced a huge “energy exchange”. I believe the term is panic attack (of which I had never had before). I was laughing and crying at the same time while unable to get enough air. I gulped and sobbed and laughed as I felt thoughts and emotions whirling and clashing inside me, rearranging themselves. Later I realized it was as if my authentic inner self was battling that “critical worthless” me that I thought was real. When I finally began to breath deeply again, I felt a self-acceptance in my heart and insides for the first time in my life. I knew that I was o.k. I was/am enough. I feel different. I even feel normal – whatever that is. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you Carolynn Hillman for giving me back to myself. I am buying several copies for my daughter, my sisters and friends. So to anyone who is not living the life you want, or being the person you want to be, get this book, read it, do the exercises. You can change and truly be the wonderful, caring, loving and beautiful person you are.
By Princess Mary, Friday @ 10:20 pm
Review by Princess Mary for Recovery Of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide For Women
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I believe this book will help any woman looking for a little self healing. If you will do the exercises, you will feel better about yourself and your surroundings. I had exceptional service from the seller Thank you.
By Fairy, Friday @ 11:00 pm
Review by Fairy for Recovery Of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide For Women
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I love this book. I thought it was great for women. It helped me tremendously.
By Peter Strong, Friday @ 11:25 pm
Review by Peter Strong for Recovery Of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide For Women
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As a mindfulness based psychotherapist, author and teacher, I found the advice in this book to be very helpful. I find that when such good strategies as presented here are combined with mindfulness meditation, which provides a way of of establishing a healthy, non-reactive inner therapeutic space in which difficult emotions, depression, anxiety and trauma can heal. If you would like to couple this sound advice with the healing power of mindfulness, then I also recommend ‘The Path of Mindfulness Meditation’ by Dr Peter Strong, an in-depth exploration of mindfulness meditation.
By Counslermom, Friday @ 11:59 pm
Review by Counslermom for Recovery Of Your Self-Esteem: A Guide For Women
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This book is not exceptionally user friendly and lacks the appeal that a self help book needs to maintain the readers attention.
By Catherine S. Vodrey, Saturday @ 12:04 am
Review by Catherine S. Vodrey for Self-Help
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Lorrie Moore has long been a favorite writer of mine. Her short fiction, which has appeared regularly in THE NEW YORKER and elsewhere, is unbeatable. Her humor is sharp, her descriptive powers awesome, and her stories (almost) always feel as though they actually go somewhere.One of the best pieces in “Self-Help” is probably the first Lorrie Moore piece I ever read. “Self-Help” was published the year I graduated from college, and I think a college friend gave me a copy of “How to Become a Writer.” Note the “become” instead of “be.” Moore acknowledges the process involved in writing and lets her readers know that writers are not sprung fully-formed from the head of Zeus or anyone else. Listen to this beautifully assured, resonant, yet hilarious passage from “How to Become a Writer”:”First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star/astronaut. A movie star/missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age–say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables. Show it to your mom. She is tough and practical. She has a son in Vietnam and a husband who may be having an affair. She believes in wearing brown because it hides spots. She’ll look briefly at your writing, then back up at you with a face blank as a doughnut. She’ll say: ‘How about emptying the dishwasher?’ Look away. Shove the forks in the fork drawer. Acccidentally break one of the freebie gas station glasses. This is the required pain and suffering. This is only for starters.”Moore likes to do that–throw in references like Vietnam, then spin things around a little so that it comes out funny. One of my favorite Lorrie Moore bits had to do with a woman who said something awful before she could stop herself–Moore described the blurted insult as being “a lizard with a hat on.” Wacko as that sounds, you still know exactly what she means. That is her great gift–she makes life sound wacko and off-kilter, but you completely, utterly GET IT anyway.
By kim (riothag@juno.com), Saturday @ 12:31 am
Review by kim (riothag@juno.com) for Self-Help
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For me, Lorrie Moore’s short stories have always been the literary equivalant of Kristin Hersh’s songs. Both of these profoundly gifted women create chilling, personal revelations that give me goosebumps. Both explore the strange and sad parts of life that keep us awake at night, staring at the ceiling and thinking “why?” And both make me want to stop writing because I will never even approach their genius. Lorrie’s peculiar style of telling a story backwards is especially endearing in this debut collection of faux “advice” stories, in which she mocks the genre of self-help. Absolutely not to be missed.p.s. Please *ignore* the review below from TGA@BIGPOND.COM.KH, as it is actually referring to Lorrie’s most recent book, Birds of America (the “sick baby” story is “People Like That are the Only People Here.”)
By Wes Saylors Jr., Saturday @ 12:50 am
Review by Wes Saylors Jr. for Self-Help
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I want to be loved like Lorrie Moore loves a man. Her characters say some hilarious things, but if you pay really close attention to how they feel (the way Ms Moore writes about how they feel), you’ll find some of the most passionate writing going. When a Moore character falls in love, they’re not fooling around (though they may be, in fact, fooling around in an extramarrital way). They mean it. And it is this passion, combined with an almost hyperintelligent wit, that makes Self-Help the terrific reading experience it is. I’m a Moore junkie … and this book is where it all started.
By brian.radigan@yale.edu, Saturday @ 1:10 am
Review by brian.radigan@yale.edu for Self-Help
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How’s that for a self-help book. Moore’s prose is brilliant; her style, unrefined and beautiful. I like this collection because it has the edge too much editing can kill. Read this book.
By kjgrow, Saturday @ 1:25 am
Review by kjgrow for Self-Help
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Wow. Lorrie Moore just gets it so right. These stories are piercing, exposing, pointing the finger right at the reader, yet sympathetic and just true, true, true. Moore certainly has a flair for drama, which comes out in stories like “What is Seized”, but it’s never gratuitious or too far-reaching. Worth reading simply for “How to Be the Other Woman” (relevent not just for any woman who has had an affair, but for anyone who has loved a man who is less than fully committed) and the wonderfully inspiring “How to Become a Writer.”