The emotionally abused woman book review

Book review - How can this book help you

• This book deals with the issue of abuse.
• It is a practical help for emotionally abuse recovery.
• The author shares what she had learned about emotional abuse, its effects and how to recover from this form of abuse.
• The book will help to empower woman that had been through emotional abuse.
• Learn different types of abuse.
• Identify who are the abusers and the different types of emotionally abused woman.
• This book will show you how to reclaim your emotions, release anger and confront the abusers.
• There is chapter about raising your esteem and sifting through parental messages.

Berverly Engel , the author of the Emotionally abused woman, is a therapist that had been emotionally abused by her mother. She was raised with a very low self esteem because was extremely criticized by her. She felt less than other people and lacked confidence in her abilities.

The scars of emotional abuse are still with her but she discovered a sense of self, built esteem and she had learned to protect herself from being emotionally abuse further.

In this book she shares what she has learned about emotional abuse, its effect and how to recover from this devastating form of abuse.

In the first chapter she describes a list of different emotional abuses so that the reader can understand if she was in fact emotionally abused. She clearly explain with examples who are the emotional abusers:

1. lovers and mates: can cause tremendous damage, they have our trust, vulnerability, hearts and bodies.
2. co-workers: damage a woman's career.
3. bosses
4. parents: her and cause permanent damage.
5. siblings and friends: they might operate out of envy or jealousy or even out of a need to destroy us.

In Chapter two she helps the reader to identify the types of emotionally abused woman with examples and questions.

• The selfless woman: is the one that has no sense of identity.
• The pleaser: try to keep everybody happy.
• The sinner: suffers from intense feelings of guilt and shame
• The co dependent
• The drama junkie: has become accustomed to a tremendous amount of change, violence , crisis and emergency situations.
• The victim : strong believes that life is one bad thing after another and that there is nothing they can do to control their lives in any way.

By bening clear about the types of emotionally abused woman , the reader will understand :

• How and why she allows others to abuse her.
• Why she has the tendency to choose a particular type of abusive person
• What she needs to do to avoid future abuse

Chapter three goes into the many faces of emotional abuser. Finally with a simple language and many examples she explains why woman choose abusers, how to discover the original abuser and patterns of abuse. This books will help to reclaim your emotions, release anger and confront original abusers. How to resolve your relationship with your original abuser, let go of false hope.

Learn how to handle abusive people by :

1. Disarming an angry person
2. Dealing with criticism: verbal self-defense

There is also an explanation about letting go of the false hope and deciding what to do next. This is a practical book that can help any woman to recover from abuse. Order it now!:

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Product Description: If you feel unfairly criticized, controlled by others, or are afraid of being lonely, you could be suffering from emotional abuse. Now there is help in this compassionate sourcebook. Bevery Engel, a marriage, family, and child therapist, guides you through a step-by-step recovery process to help you heal the damage done in the past.

Inside Flap Copy:If you feel unfairly criticized, controlled by others, or are afraid of being lonely, you could be suffering from emotional abuse. Now there is help in this compassionate sourcebook. Bevery Engel, a marriage, family, and child therapist, guides you through a step-by-step recovery process to help you heal the damage done in the past.

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