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Dr. Sorensen considers her most important
professional contributions to be not only her work on
understanding the inner experience of those with low self-esteem, but also the incorporation of those
insights into the development of a highly effective recovery program for low
self-esteem.
She currently provides psychotherapy by Skype across the United States and presently
in 15 other countries.
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72 Entries
Oct 4, 2008
Comments:
Hi. im 20 years old from Asia and i have had difficulties communicating with almost everyone for a long time now. I didn't have many friends during when i was in high school and i was always alone and they didn't like me because they think im weird or im avoiding them or im just a boring person. I've tried to socialize around but everytime i do i will come up with "boring" topics which they won't be interested in talking after awhile and im lost for words. I then loose my confidence and i start to get anxious. Sometimes it becomes worst if im alone with someone because i don't have anything to say and thats how i begin to loose my friends. I have never been in a relationship before thinking that it'll probably never work and i don't want to risk embarrassing myself as i know i will. I just noticed more that i was probably having a big self esteem issue especially after i was diagnosed with a really bad disease resulting to affect my physical appearances and it has caused an impact to my life. I got depressed and i didn't care about anyone else, and unfortunately my friends did not understand what i was going through so it was tougher. I really don't know what i should do because if i continue being like this, for sure i know i will not be living in the life that i want. I want to be confident! and be able to speak up and stand up for what i am and be able to make long conversations that people will be interested on listening to. So i hope you can help me with this problem as i know there is no one who can understand my problem over here.
Please and thank you....
-azee-
Sept 27, 2008
Comments:
Hi Dr. Sorensen. I hope that I can reach you and you can help me with my prolems, because I have plans and goals and I don't want LSE to stop me because I am still young and have a lot to achieve. Hopefully I will talk to you soon.
Sept 26, 2008
Comments:
Dr. Sorensen, I will take this opportunity to say thank you for all the help you are giving me through our phone sessions, and to quickly share my latest 'yippee' moment with you:
I had my first tutorial today with my teaching professional studies tutor, a very forward thinking and positive headmistress from a challenging school in the city. She started the tutorial by asking me what my personal strengths are: as you know, a few months ago I struggled to find any positives about myself. Not so today!! I rattled off at least a dozen great qualities including good communication skills, objectivity, empathy, integrity, being caring, enthusiastic, adaptable, socially adept, good sense of humour, hardworking, able to take constructive criticism in order to improve my skills...I went on and on, and she interjected with, 'I can see that', and 'I have noticed that about you' and 'you are exactly the sort of person that I look to employ in my school'.
We talked about areas for improvement and it was good to talk about my efforts in increasing my maths and science subject knowledge, which felt positive and proactive.
As you can imagine, I came out of the tutorial walking ten feet tall - it was such a great feeling, to be positive about myself and for it to feel genuine and hear it being appreciated :-)
So, as I said, thank you for all your help so far. I know I take three steps forward and two steps back but little by little I am really noticing the small changes adding up into bigger and bigger changes that I love!
Sept 26, 2008
Comments:
Dear Dr. Sorensen,
I am a mother who lives in, Italy. I recently read your book "breaking the chains of low self esteem" and...it's me!
I I always knew it that but I think I was never conscious about it. Now I am and believe me, it's terrible. What makes me feel extremely bad is that I am poor with relationships, to tell the truth I don't think I am able to have a deep and intimate relationship with anyone, not with my mother, or my sister not with ex-husband who left me or friends that I have and had only as a consequence of frequentation at school or work: in fact these are the only places where I established relationship..I think because I always studied a lot and worked hard and this part of my personality seems to have left/leave a good impression in people around me in those places (works / school). I consider myself as a boring person who is not able to have fun....rigidity is the focus thing about me. Life without human relationship does not deserve to be lived, it is a cold life but I do not know how have the life I wish...every attempt I make to establish one fails, so I started to avoid. I tried therapy 3 years ago. I went to 2 different therapists but I found no way to improve myself and I felt hopeless.
I believe I have personality desease called "avoiding", since I avoid people and relationship because I think I am not able to manage them, fear and axiety is always there and have no skills of conversation. I do not know if you can understand the situation of embarassment of not knowing what to say..I think you do, but believe me I feel it always whenever I am near someone. And this makes me feel depressed. Anyway, everything you mention in your books matches perfectly with me. Nobody has never understood my situation.
I feel extremely depressed. Life cannot be lived in this way. I know that it is difficult to understand the real problems of a person only through emails but what I would like to have is an HOPE that my life can be normal. And that my daughter's life can be normal, full of happiness (and sometimes sad things too, I know, it is how life goes), but living with emotions, with deep relationship, with laughters, not like me with fear..
I feel you can understand my situation. I am aware I need to acquire skills I do not have, even if these are the basic skills that each person automatically acquires growing, but I did not get them. So I think now I have to learn, I feel like a baby who has to learn skills which should be natural, but I am 35 years old and I know it will not be easy and fast as it is for a baby. I also want to read all your books, and i am sure I will do that but this is not enough, and I think you can agree with me.
I accept every suggestion you can give me: I know you understand my situation and I trust in your suggestions.
R. from Italy
Sept 15, 2008
Comments:
I have just stumbled upon you page today. I read a lot about self-esteem and do a lot of work with clients who suffer the same. I am incline to agree with your findings and look forward to the changes to the way we look at patients with reportedly panic attacks. I agree with you. I will be ordering your books and will look forward to being able to take your certification session.
Thanks once again.
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Comments from a reader:
I have just finished reading Breaking the Chain of Low Self-Esteem. Two weeks ago my Rabbi told me that you cannot cure yourself until you know you are sick. I think you would call the same thing "awareness". Both the Rabbi and to a greater degree, your book, have not only made me aware, but I was on the path of rehabilitation before I had finished reading Chapter 1. I am 62 years old and have lived in the wilderness of low self esteem. Your book is the harbinger of change. Now I will read it again.
Thank you most sincerely,
David, Hollywood, Florida
(March 26, 2005)