My search for what I call The Enchanted Self1®began 17 years ago when, after many years in private practice, an urge was building within in me to learn more about how the messages girls receive in childhood about whom they should become interface later with their sense of self in adulthood. I wanted a first […]
Author Archives: Barbara Holstein
SECRETS, Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein’s new book, is no longer a SECRET!
I finally held SECRETS: You tell me yours, I’ll tell you mine…maybe! in my hands this past Friday. I got the proof and it was ‘love at first site’. The book is purple with beautiful flowers and just wants to be read. I approved it on Friday and now it should be ready for purchase […]
Discovered: The Secret Ingredient to Happiness is Ourselves!
As many of you know I am a positive psychologist and happiness coach-I encourage finding out what’s good about ourselves (rather than what’s bad), and seeing ourselves in a positive light. I teach how to understand your own needs and your talents, and how to do the work necessary to create a life full of […]
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, Positive Psychologist Discusses How She Discovered THE ENCHANTED SELF(R)
I was always concerned about some of the issues that clinicians face in practicing therapy. As a client, and also as a therapist, I saw again and again that we tend to focus on what is wrong about ourselves, rather than what is right. We are experts at judging ourselves and usually not for the […]
THE ENCHANTED SELF PART OF OURSELVES-FIND IT! (PART ONE)
What are the tools to get to THE ENCHANTED SELF® part of ourselves? What skills do we need in order to find happiness that is unique and sustainable for each person? I suggest you enter the Seven Gateways of Happiness that go with The Enchanted Self and find the tools waiting for you at each […]
I recently found an excerpt from The Enchanted Self, A Positive Therapy. This section reveals the way that I initially began to reclaim my own Enchanted Self:
My enchanted self was beginning to emerge, unpeeling as an onion is unpeeled, layer by layer. This is important because I think so many of us shy away from our innermost positive feelings perhaps as much as we do from the dark shadows around us. The search for The Enchanted Self is intimate in revealing […]
Diary Entries
Some of you may think that all the ‘girl’s’ entries are in her diary that became The Truth (I’m a girl, I’m smart and I know everything!). But that is not true. She also had secret entries that she kept in another hidden diary. From time to time I come across one of those secret […]
WE CAN NEVER RECEIVE TOO MANY BLESSINGS. Here are some from Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, Positive Psychologist
“May you be blessed with the capacity to walk gracefully with laughter bubbling up inside as you move through your day.” “When a sudden memory from you past comes into your head unexpectedly, may it only fill you with delight and the pleasure of remembering what has been good and fruitful in your own life!” […]