“May you be blessed with a day where no one speaks negatively, including you!” “May you feel as though you can walk on water, even when you are simply walking along the shore!” “After you struggle uphill may you always slide downhill laughing, full of life and giddy with delight.” “Everytime you set out to […]
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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 […]
How Did THE ENCHANTED SELF Turn into THE TRUTH?
I believe that retrieving positive memories is important to our health and well being. This is one of the dominant themes of my professional teaching. I have come to believe that without a sense that life is pleasant and at times pleasurable, joyful, even rapturous and ecstatic, we are vulnerable to depression, chronic anxiety and […]
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein looks at the Enchanted Self’s Third Gateway to Happiness in Reference to girls growing up.
The Enchanted Self’s Third Gateway to Happiness is all about learning to meet our needs, and how to negotiate for ourselves. Often kids certainly know what their needs are better than adults, because everything is less disguised, fresher and closer to the surface. But they very often don’t know how to negotiate for themselves or […]
The Wise Older Woman by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
Awhile ago, I attended a beautiful wedding. A young Jewish couple came together in joy and the room was filled with happiness. Outside of the banquet room I noticed a group of older women sitting near the door collecting charity. They all looked very pure and plain at the same time, young seniors and older […]
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, Positive Psychologist looks at WHAT FLYING HORSES CAN TEACH US ABOUT BEING HUMAN AND REACHING ALWAYS FOR THE ENCHANTED SELF GOLDEN RING OF LIFE
Rabbi Y. Carlebach told the following story that makes us aware of how we can elevate ourselves. Often it is our own choice The Baal Shem Tov was a Rabbi who lived in the 18th century. He had extraordinary powers to uplift the down-trodden Jewish populations of Eastern Europe. As most of the Jews in […]
More About THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
This book, utilizing case studies, personal insights from my own life, reader exercises and even poetry, allows the reader to explore positive aspects of herself. If she is a therapist, she also learns how to make long overdue corrections in the treatment room. Many readers, therapists, and lay people, wrote to me thanking me for […]
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, Positive Psychologist Presents her paper, WRITING FOR PSYCHOLOGY, CASE BOOK, FICTION, WHAT’S NEXT? at Norwalk Community College.
I uploaded a very short video in which I discuss some of the core concepts of The Enchanted Self. The video excerpt is part of a lecture that took place at Norwalk Community College, November 2008 at the annual Writer’s Conference. The full title of my presentation was: Writing for Psychology, Case Book, Fiction, What’s […]