Combat the critical voice in your head, override other people’s negativity and learn how to make peace with yourself.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you liked yourself a bit more?
Perhaps you wouldn’t be quite so hard on yourself when things went wrong. Maybe you wouldn’t be so knocked off course if others treat you badly and think that in some way that you were responsible. It’s all very well for people to say ‘the greatest gift you can give yourself is love’ but how does that actually work?
If all this sounds familiar, don’t worry. I have a programme for improving your self-esteem.
I have spent thirty years helping individuals and couples make better relationships and I’ve noticed the problems that come when self-esteem becomes a roller-coaster ride.
In a dip, when you’re feeling low, you need to pump yourself up. However, it is easy to push yourself up to such heights (and expect perfection) that you’re just as likely to come thundering down from the peak to another trough.
What I’m aiming for is “enough” so that you have a balanced and realistic relationship with yourself.
Although this book will help everybody with self-esteem issues, I find it particularly helpful if you’re dealing with the aftermath of infidelity or your partner has fallen out of love.
Each of the seven steps has exercises to help you step back, understand yourself better and make stronger relationships.
“I found this book, written in Andrew Marshall’s concise and readable style, very useful, having been told all my life that I’m too hard on myself. Here are two useful quotes: ‘in many ways, our partners are a foreign land.’ And – ‘once you have stopped self-medicating, perfectionism and other destructive behaviours, you will begin to feel calmer and better able to negotiate change.’ He expresses complex issues with great elegance.“
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