It Wasnt Your Fault, Beverly Engel
It Wasnt Your Fault, Beverly Engel
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It Wasn't Your Fault
Freeing Yourself from the Shame of Childhood Abuse with the Power of Self-Compassion

Author: Beverly Engel

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2015


Synopsis

Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you as a person. In order to begin healing, it’s important for you to know that it wasn’t your fault.In this gentle guide, therapist and childhood abuse expert Beverly Engel presents a mindfulness and compassion-based therapeutic approach to help you overcome the debilitating shame that keeps you tied to the past. By following the step-by-step exercises in this audiobook, you’ll gain a greater understanding of the root cause of your shame. And by cultivating compassion toward yourself, you will begin to heal and move past your painful experiences.Recent studies show that trauma survivors, particularly those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from abuse, can greatly benefit from incorporating elements of self-compassion into their treatment. Furthermore, the practice of self-compassion has been shown to decrease PTSD symptoms, including, self-criticism, thought suppression, and rumination.This audiobook is based on the author’s powerful and effective Compassion Cure program. With this audiobook, you will develop the skills needed to finally put a stop to the crippling self-blame that keeps you from moving on and being happy. You’ll learn to focus on your strengths, your courage, and your extraordinary ability to survive. Most of all, you’ll learn to replace shame with its counter emotion—pride.

About Beverly Engel

Beverly Engel, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over thirty years of experience working primarily with survivors of childhood and adult abuse. She is author of several books, including The Emotionally Abused Woman and Healing Your Emotional Self.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shauna

I am having a hard time reviewing this book because of the fact I have such mixed emotions about it. Engel's book brought to light a lot of issues I had been stuffing from childhood. It helped me to understand on a deeper level how traumatizing my childhood was in certain aspects. But, on the other......more

Goodreads review by Terence

I wasn't looking for It Wasn't Your Fault, this book found me. As soon as I read the full title I realized I needed to read it and I picked it up at the library later that same day. I wish I didn't need to read this book and I wish no one ever needed to read it. Unfortunately I and many others did n......more

Goodreads review by Marian

This is an excellent book, even speaking as someone who has practiced most of the techniques over the years, between therapy, teaching yoga, and mindfulness meditation. It helped me fill in an important element, however: compassion. I haven't been giving myself nearly enough of this. I'm pretty on to......more

Goodreads review by Paige

We are not born with shame, it happens to us. Shame is a deep feeling of being inadequate, not measuring up, or not being enough. It Wasn't Your Fault: Freeing Yourself from the Shame of Childhood Abuse with the Power of Self-Compassion by Beverly Engel is the most comprehensive and helpful book wit......more