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 […]

Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, positive psychologist, discusses some of the core concepts of The Enchanted Self at Norwalk Community College, November 2008 at the annual Writer’s Conference

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OUR SOCIETY DOESN’T HELP US TO FEEL POSITIVE ENOUGH ABOUT OURSELVES, SAYS DR. BARBARA BECKER HOLSTEIN, POSITIVE PSYCOLOGIST

After doing case study research on women outside of my practice I became certain that women, and I am sure most men, have greater capacities to restore themselves and enjoy themselves, than previously documented.  I also realized we are not given enough signals in our society to help us feel positive about ourselves, or to recognize […]