* Practicing six key ways of nurturing yourself

* Recognizing and appreciating your good points

* Silencing the inner-critic — and heeding the inner-child

* Breaking the self-imposed failure cycle

* Overcoming external obstacles that limit your progress

Recovery of Your Self-Esteem supports readers with participatory exercises and inspiring examples that confirm feelings of increased self-respect and achievement. It offers invaluable advice and understanding that will pave the way toward feeling better more of the time.

Introduction

PART I: THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-NURTURING

1 Being There for Yourself

2 CARESS: Six Key Ways to Nurture Yourself

3 Why We Are the Way We Are

PART II: TEN STEPS TO LIKING THE PERSON YOU ARE

4 Step One: Recognizing Your Good Points and Believing in Yourself

5 Step Two: Looking at How You Berate Yourself

6 Step Three: Recognizing the Real You

7 Step Four: Finding Out Who Taught You to Feel Bad about Yourself

8 Step Five: Letting Go and Liking Yourself

9 Step Six: You Be You and I'll Be Me

10 Step Seven: Learning What You Need to Feel Nurtured and Step Eight: Opening Your Heart to Your Inner-Child

11 Step Nine: How to Listen with Your Heart and Talk so You'll Be Heard: Learning Empathic Communication

12 Step Ten: Giving Yourself the Nurturance You Need

PART III: NURTURING YOURSELF IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS

13 Nurturing Yourself When Anxious

14 Nurturing Yourself When Depressed

15 Nurturing Yourself While Raising Children

16 Nurturing Yourself While Making Love

17 Nurturing Yourself at Work

A Final Word

Suggested Readings

Notes

Index