The Self-Esteem Companion: Simple Exercises to Help You Challenge Your Inner Critic and Celebrate Your Personal Strengths

by Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, Carole Honeychurch

Self-esteem is an important part of leading a happy, fulfilling life. How we feel about ourselves affects every aspect of our lives, from the way we function at work, in love, and in sex, to the way we parent, to what we strive to achieve.

The Self-Esteem Companion is a step-by-step guide filled with straightforward and effective techniques to help you dramatically improve the way you think and feel about yourself. From the authors of the best-selling Self-Esteem, which has sold more than 700,000 copies, this collection of simple exercises will help you talk back to your inner critic, realistically assess yourself, and begin to celebrate your personal strengths.

With this step-by-step advice, learn to:


Break free from negative self-concepts and self-defeating behavior Deal with mistakes, “shoulds,” and criticism Gain self-acceptance and a sense of competence and belonging Understand and overcome your limitations from the past Feel more confident in personal and professional relationships

Genres: Self Help, Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Esteem, Mental Health, Health

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Matthew McKay, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and author of more than 30 professional psychology and self-help books which have sold a combined total of more than 3 million copies. He is co-founder of independent self-help publisher, New Harbinger Publications. He was the clinical director of Haight Ashbury Psychological Services in San Francisco for twenty five years. He is current director of the Berkeley CBT Clinic. An accomplished novelist and poet, his poetry has appeared in two volumes from Plum Branch Press and in more than sixty literary magazines. His most recent novel, Wawona Hotel, was
published by Boaz Press in 2008.

Reviews

[Dan Stern · Rating 4 out of 5]

I particularly like this book because it has many exercises to help the reader explore and tame their "inner critic" as well as to increase the reader's awareness and transform their thinking. Awareness is the first step to personal transformation.

[Lynda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used this for daily journaling.

[Gretchen Corn · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books I've read on self-esteem. How do we develop our sense of self? Is it accurate? Do we live based on our values or whatever was drilled into our heads? This book helps sift through this and I've found it helpful personally and professionally.

[Behnam · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Alexis Arian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought it was okay, some exercises really helped, like the one that says to breath and hold an object in hand until it falls.

[Meisam Sheikhi · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderfull . change my life