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A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life

Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don't like ourselves very much. We are sufferers of self-hatred. We tell ourselves the meanest things. It's because of self-hatred that we tend to neglect our potential at work and get entangled in unfulfilling relationships, that we lack confidence in our social lives and suffer from anxiety and despair.

This is a book that, with immense compassion and fellow feeling, investigates the phenomenon of self-hatred while giving pragmatic advice on how to overcome it. It asks where the feeling comes from, what it makes us do and how we might become kinder and more compassionate towards ourselves.

Hardback | 181 x 110 mm | 160 pages

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Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Avery ★★★★★

I didn't expect a book about self-hatred to feel this gentle. The section on why we avoid our own company hit uncomfortably close, in a good way, and I've already reread it twice.

Daniel ★★★★★

I bought this expecting simple affirmations, but the way it breaks down the roots of self-hatred and frames healing as a practical daily practice feels genuinely different. The chapter on living more self-acceptingly gave me concrete shifts I could apply the same evening. It's the kind of book I'll

Isabella ★★★★★

The chapter on self-acceptance hit me harder than any therapy session I've had—I kept putting the book down just to breathe. It's structured so you work through the pain step by step, not just read about it abstractly. I've recommended it to two friends already.

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