"Healing Your Emotional Self" By Beverly Engel

"Healing Your Emotional Self" by Beverly Engel is a self-help guide aimed at adults who experienced emotional abuse or neglect in childhood. Engel explores the seven types of emotionally abusive or neglectful parents and the seven most common parental mirrors they hold up to their children, which distort their children’s self-image and self-esteem. The book introduces "Mirror Therapy," a program designed to help readers shatter their distorted parental mirrors, replace them with more accurate reflections of themselves, and ultimately create a more compassionate inner critic. It provides exercises and strategies for working through unresolved anger, confronting past abuse, and developing a sense of self-worth. The author emphasises the importance of acknowledging and working through shame, and offers advice on building self-compassion and creating a nurturing inner voice to replace the critical one.