The Power of Apology: Healing Steps to Transform All Your Relationships: Healing Steps to Transform All Your Relationships - Softcover

Engel, Beverly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471218928 ISBN 13: 9780471218920

Publisher: Wiley, 2002

Synopsis

Fresh and useful . . . excellent practical advice . . . thorough and lucid . . . will be welcomed by many who have struggled to ask forgiveness and to forgive. -Publishers Weekly A finalist in the Books for a Better Life Awards competition! Discover the healing power of apology and put its magic to work in your life Do you have a difficult time apologizing or are you involved with someone who does? Do you tend to overapologize and appear weak in others' eyes? Do you want to reconcile with someone but feel they owe you an apology first? Do you need to apologize or make amends to someone but don't know how to go about it? In this inspiring book from internationally acclaimed therapist and self-improvement author Beverly Engel, you will learn why some people have difficulty apologizing while others tend to overapologize. You'll learn how to give a meaningful apology, how to ask for one, and how to receive one. From making amends with those you have hurt to dealing with someone who refuses to apologize to teaching children responsibility and empathy, this life-changing book shows you how to bring a healing new element of renewal into every relationship in your life. "Beverly Engel has eloquently explained the power of apology in a remarkably insightful and perceptive manner. No one has been better able to explain what an apology means and its role in reconciliation" -Rabbi Charles A. Klein, author of How to Forgive When You Can't Forget: Healing Our Personal Relationships "Readers of this wise and lucid guide to the neglected art of authentic apology will acquire a powerful tool to help repair relationships with others and with themselves" -Jeanne Safer, Ph.D., author of Forgiving and Not Forgiving: A New Approach to Resolving Intimate Betrayal "An engaging and in-depth book on a subject that has rarely been addressed so intelligently and thoroughly. Ms. Engel offers the reader specific suggestions that can help you

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"In The Power of Apology, Beverly Engel looks through the eyes of both giver and receiver. She provides practical, thoughtful advice on how our everyday use of apology can transform our lives for the better." —Ted Wachtel, coauthor of the bestselling Toughlove "Readers of this wise and lucid guide to the neglected art of authentic apology will acquire a powerful tool to help repair relationships with others, and with themselves." —Jeanne Safer, PhD author of Forgiving and Not Forgiving: Why Sometimes It′s Better Not to Forgive

Synopsis

Chosen by the One Spirit Book Club and a finalist for the 2002 Books for a Better Life Awards "No one has been better able to explain what an apology means and its role in reconciliation." - Rabbi Charles A. Klein, Author, "How to Forgive When You Can't Forget: Healing Our Personal Relationships". In this inspiring and instructive book from internationally acclaimed therapist and self help author Beverly Engel, readers learn why apology is so important to our emotional and physical well being and why our inability to apologize is the source of a great deal of the dysfunction and unhappiness in all aspects of our lives. With the help of many moving, real life stories, Engel passionately demonstrates the transformative power of apology and offers practical, easy to follow prescriptions for putting the power of apology to work in our own lives. Beverly Engel (Los Osos, CA) is a psychotherapist and the author of thirteen books dealing with women's and relationship issues. She has been featured on "Oprah", "Donahue", "Ricki Lake", "Sally Jessy Raphael", and other nationally syndicated programs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0471218928
• ISBN 13: 9780471218920
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268