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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May 21, 2008
Comments:
I have just recently discovered that low self-esteem is the underlying issue behind all of the troubles in my life. I began drinking when I was 12 years old. Then I was diagnosed with depression at 15 and began taking anti-depressants. I did move on in my life and I have a BA in Human Services and Counseling because I was trying to "heal myself". However, I graduated in 2002 and I have never officially worked in the field because I attended heal myself. Guess what, it didn?t work!! I have struggled for more than half my life (I am 31), with so called "depression" which lead to alcoholism. I drink every single day and I feel like a total failure everyday of my life. I am intelligent enough to know and realize that I "know better" so to speak, however, I can?t do it! I am dying inside. My mother?s side of the family has always had a history of "depression", actually I recently have realized that it is a history of low self-esteem. Self-esteem is definitely the CAUSE and not the result of MANY disorders! Hopefully there is light at the end of the tunnel for all of us!
June 14, 2008
Comments:
Hi everyone, I?m from Poland (Warsaw). I?m so lucky that I found Mrs Sorensen?s books on amazon.com. I started to read them only after one year after I purchased them. So, I was not aware what a gift I bought. Finally I have completed both "The breaking the chains...." and The personal work book today.
The awareness of what is LSE and the mechanics of the illness is a great breakthrough by itself. Hope to make further progress over the next months on my individual work. In Poland the issue around LSE is completely underestimated and misunderstood.
July 5, 2008
Comments:
Dr. Sorensen, thank you for this book of Love and Hope !!!
My whole life(43yrs)I lived with very low thoughts of myself. I did not understand why I had such thoughts and as I read your book and reflect back thur my years I now see that I had the masterteacher of low self-esteem(my father). The abuse that I have experienced is as follow; I was violently attacked on numerous occasiouns by the family dog from the ages of 10 to 15 years old. My father would not put the dog to sleep he said that I deserved it because I made the dog aggressive.I did make the dog aggressive.I took my anger out on the dog because I was depressed, I didn’t know what I was doing, no child deservers what I endured.I was ridiculed for being overweight by my father and brothers and as I aged I recieved it from society as well.I was taught by my father that I was unworthy, unloveable,a failure,stupid,fat,ulgy,lazy. I guess he Loved me so much that he wanted me to be the better person he was not. He is 84yrs old he still does not accept or realize what he has done was wrong. I forgive him. I have three children of my own and I do not at all do them what my father has done to me. My only regret is that now my wife,the Love of my life, has experienced the wrath of my father thur me. I brought this into my marriage and now I can’t turn back time and change things. I really want my wife to understand LSE and how we all all vicitums including our three children.I wish she would believe and to standup and fight for we are all vicitums. I keep asking her to read your book and truely understand that I am not makingup any excuses for my actions.She has not tried to read it because she feels that I have been in control my life and I knew what I was doing and that my delaying change in my life was my choice. I was thinking if maybe you could send her an email so she could hear it from a dr. a professional, someone other than me that she might think differently. Her email address is [brandygirl232003 @ yahoo.com] We are a struggling family of now six people and in the process of divorce, everyday I wish I could stop this and start over, because this is a tradgy to the highest degree!
July 9, 2008
Comments:
?Breaking the Chain of Low Self-Esteem? is brilliant. I just wish I had read it about 20 years ago! The chapter about Low Self Esteem Attacks (?When Life is a Minefield?) was particularly helpful to me as it dealt with a terrible problem I have had all my life but always been unable to communicate to anyone else. Even just knowing that other people have these attacks as well as me helped to raise my self esteem as it may me realise it wasn?t some personal defect peculiar to me. I can?t express what a relief it is to learn they are something that can be dealt with. Thank you.
July 18, 2008
Comments:
Why aren?t more Therapists trained in the aspect low esteem as it relates to mental health? Everything Sorensen says, makes perfect sense. I have never read a book which offers such insight into specific emotional problems. Sorensen?s experience and insights "blew me away." Her insights at times seem more of a "telepathic nature," than that of a therapist. This woman could very easily "re-write" the whole therapuetic approach. So many more people would benefit, if she did!!
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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)