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What is a good book to recommend for someone struggling with self esteem? I know Rabbi Twerski is great, but I haven’t read most of his books and don’t know which is best. Basically I’m looking for one really good book to suggest to someone to read over yom tov.
“Let us make man” is great
sure, it helped me alot many years ago
it is based on the beginning of chovos halevavos, shaar ha’hachno’o
“When do the good things start,” and “Waking up just in time”, both Twerski are great for this. He uses illustrations of Charlie Brown and friends to illustrate the point. Twerski believes everything is dependant on self esteem so he is def. a good author of such books, he’s said, “i wrote 1 book x many times!” He speaks of it in a very factual way and he doesn’t say to do all these exercises and workshops but rather just makes you think to do it yourself!!
“Let us make man” is great too.
And yitayningwut – hi again 😉 lots of luck!
“The 7 habits of highly effective people” by Stephen R. Covey.
Twersky has a book with 10 Steps to Self Esteem or something like that… but it takes alot of will power to work thru the steps and keep to them
Last time, I promise
b’li neder of course
Eichlers store has several books on self-esteem. Zelig Pliskin has a book “Building Your Self Image”.
I found certain parts of a book by Miriam Adahan called “Awareness: The Key to Acceptance, Respect, Forgiveness, and Growth” (new expanded edition) helpful in understanding some things about myself and others.
Just wondering yitayningwut, what book did you find?
I think the best way to take care of self esteem issues is seek to understand why you have an issue with self esteem to begin with.
Or a great way to understand is by sending your handwriting to be analyzed by a handwriting analyst to learn more about yourself.
Seek books that relate to the topic that your handwriting shows is not a good trait to have. I don’t believe simply reading self esteem books is going to help anyone.
How did the “other things” help yitayningwut? I was just wondering and hoping it went okay. Lots of luck!
I don’t think giving someone such a book will help there self esteem much,
the feel good handbook by dr david d. burns
“Stop Surviving Start Living” by Rabbi Ben Zion Shafier
Easy reading, yet thought provoking.
self esteem is bad and you are too
“I Only Want to Get Married Once” an excellent book and very easy reading. Chana Levitan is the author and although the book is about dating, it is really about learning who you are and what you can do with what Hashem has given you.
emunah? hello? Is half your brain tied behind your back to make it fair?? maybe untie it. this thread was about self esteem. sheesh.
MODS!!!! Where are you????
Have you read sheeps post???
How are you letting these go through?!?!
My stomach is turning reading the posts on this website!
Sorry.
Read this book and you will understand what self esteem is really about. Your get to know who you are. Looking at who you are helps with learning about your strengths and weakness-thereby building self esteem.
Sheep-you probably should have someone read the book to you. It is a well written book.
mommamia
The sheeps stomach is also turning, but that is b/c I am roasting him on a spit
Well you keep egging me on. Yitayning is an accomplice.
nope its all your fault you can cry but you cant hide
In this case I know what is probably the cause
So why not get books that gives insight and advice how to deal with this issue?
emunah613
Based on your recommendation I have just ordered I Only Want to Get Married Once on Amazon.com. Im really looking forward to reading it.
For anyone suffering from low esteem I recommend “Pulling Your Own Strings” by Wayne Dyer. It is an amazing book, and has the power to literally change a person’s life.
The book that helped me greatly in the low point of my life, is The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck. One of my rabbis introduced me to it and had a special session with me reading/learning from it. I slowly but surely turned around my life and am happy looking back at the changes I made.
I learnt what a true friends are, real love, disciplining one-self, and other great concepts that I have for the most part not forgotten even consciously.
yitay: So why not recommend it to the friend that you originally wanted to recommend a book to?
From the immortal words of George Carlin…
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