Overcoming Low Self Esteem Melanie Fennell.pdf
Sharif Garmon
Low self-esteem can make life difficult in all sorts of ways. It can make you anxious and unhappy, tormented by doubts and self-critical thoughts. It can get in the way of feeling at ease with other people and stop you from leading the life you want to lead. It makes it hard to value and appreciate yourself in the same way you would another person you care about.
Melanie Fennell's acclaimed and bestselling self-help guide will help you to understand your low self-esteem and break out of the vicious circle of distress, unhelpful behaviour and self-destructive thinking. Using practical techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), this book will help you learn the art of self-acceptance and so transform your sense of yourself for the better.
Specifically, you will learn:
How low self-esteem develops and what keeps it going
How to question your negative thoughts and the attitudes that underlie them
How to identify your strengths and good qualities for a more balanced, kindly view of yourself
This chapter has outlined a cognitive model of low self-esteem and a cognitive-behavioral treatment program based upon it. It has considered the value of independent self-help assignments (homework) at each stage in therapy, and concluded by identifying practical issues that need to be taken into account when working to enhance self-esteem.
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