How women can overcome the pressure to please others and feel free to be their true selvesAre you too nice for your own good? Do family members manipulate you? Do coworkers take advantage of you? If this sounds familiar, read The Nice Girl Syndrome. In this breakthrough guide, renowned author and therapist Beverly Engel, who has helped thousands of women recognize and leave emotionally abusive relationships, can show you how to take control of your life an...

Healing Your Emotional Self"Emotionally abusive parents are indeed toxic parents, and they cause significant damage to their children's self-esteem, self-image, and body image. In this remarkable book, Beverly Engel shares her powerful Mirror Therapy program for helping adult survivors to overcome their shame and self-criticism, become more compassionate and accepting of themselves, and create a more posititve self-image. I strongly recommend it for anyone who was abused or neglect...

From a leading expert, a guide to changing your anger style and successfully communicating your feelings.Do you act out your anger in destructive or underhanded ways? Or do you suppress your anger and turn other people's abuse and criticism against yourself? Anger is a normal, healthy emotion. But if it's channeled in negative directions, anger can do real damage to you and your loved ones.In this provocative, healing book, psychotherapist Beverly Engel exp...

**"Extremely informative and comprehensive."—Lundy Bancroft, author of Why Does He Do That?The world-renowned therapist and author of the groundbreaking self-help classic, The Emotionally Abused Woman, delves into one of the most destructive and powerful weapons of the abuser: shame. And reveals its most powerful antidote . . .**Does your partner humiliate you, especially in front of others?Is your partner impossible ...

A step-by-step guide to help both victims of emotional abuse and their abusers escape unhealthy patterns originating from childhood abuse and neglectIn the second edition of The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing, internationally recognized therapist Beverly Engel walks readers through a proven program designed to help readers get to the core of their unhealthy behavior patterns.This book was written ...

This prescriptive book shows emotionally abused people how to find help and help themselves; it also shows emotionally abusive people how to stop abusing.

Beverly Engel brings her expertise to this important examination of the Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome—the first book to address this abusive syndrome. She discusses the origins of the disorder, names its seven major manifestations, explains how to identify Jekyll and Hyde behavior in other people and in oneself, and outlines clear steps for how to heal Jekyll and Hyde tendencies for good.

Stop repeating your past, and find lasting healing for the future.Millions of us are desperately trying to rewrite our past by unconsciously repeating it--unknowingly reenacting the traumatic events in our lives in an effort to complete unfinished business or undo what was done to us. These unconscious efforts to undo trauma only bring more pain, more disappointment, and more psychological damage. Reenactments can take the form of self-destructive behavior, unhealt...

In this groundbreaking book, Engel helps women confront the beliefs and behaviors that keep them stuck in their Nice Girl act while replacing them with healthier, more empowering ones. CONTENTS PART I. STRONG WOMEN ARENT NICE Chapter 1: The High Price of Being Too Nice: The 7 Types of Nice Girls Chapter 2: How Did We Get So Nice? Chapter 3: The Ten False Beliefs That Set Women Up to Be Used and Abused PART II. FROM FALSE BELIEFS TO EMPOWERING BELIEFS Chapter 4: Stop Putting Others Needs an...

This "clear, empathetic self-help book . . . is an excellent choice for readers who come from an abusive past and are struggling to make a brighter future" ( Publishers Weekly).If you were emotionally, physically, or sexually abused as a child or adolescent, or if you experienced neglect or abandonment, it isn't a question of whether you will continue the cycle of abuse but rather a question of how--whether you will become an abuser or con...

Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you as a person. In order to begin healing, it’s important for you to know that it wasn’t your fault.In this gentle guide, therapist and childhood abuse expert Beverly Engel presents a mindfulness and compassion-based therapeutic approach to help you overcome the debilitating shame that keeps you...

"Sensual Sex" is based on the idea that by becoming more attuned to our five senses we can develop an increasingly erotic relationship with our body and our partner's body. Sex therapist Beverly Engel takes readers through each of the five senses and gives exercises to help lovers increase their pleasure and intimacy by learning to luxuriate in their senses. 10 b&w photos. National radio drive-time tour.