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

This involves setting firm boundaries and realizing you are no longer responsible for your parents' emotions or approval. Phase 3: Creating a New, Healthy Mirror

Reflects "You are bad" or "You are unacceptable". Phase 2: Shattering the Distorted Reflection Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program...

The "inner critic" is often the internalized voice of a parent. Engel teaches techniques to confront and counter this voice with self-compassion. This involves setting firm boundaries and realizing you

Actively questioning long-held beliefs about your worth and recognizing them as projections of your parents' own limitations rather than truths about you. Engel teaches techniques to confront and counter this

The central metaphor of the program is that parents act as "mirrors" for their children. If a parent's reflection is distorted by their own issues, the child grows up with a warped sense of self.

Reflects "You are nothing without me" or "You are fragile".