Emotional Self: A Powerful Program... — Healing Your

Reconnecting with your physical self to heal body-image issues that often stem from negative parental mirroring. Phase 4: Specialized Healing Strategies

Through exercises like creating a "word self-portrait," you explore your own values, likes, dislikes, and dreams apart from parental expectations.

Diagnostic tools to identify your specific parental mirrors and core wounds. Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program...

In , psychotherapist Beverly Engel presents a comprehensive Mirror Therapy program designed to help adult survivors of emotional abuse or neglect repair their self-esteem and self-image . The guide below outlines the core stages and strategies found in the book. Phase 1: Understanding the Parental Mirror

The "inner critic" is often the internalized voice of a parent. Engel teaches techniques to confront and counter this voice with self-compassion. Reconnecting with your physical self to heal body-image

Focus on assertiveness training and reclaiming personal power. Summary of Key Tools Mirror Therapy

Learning to provide for yourself what you missed as a child—such as empathy, validation, and comfort—effectively becoming your own nurturing parent. In , psychotherapist Beverly Engel presents a comprehensive

Reflects "You are unlovable" or "Your needs don't matter".