Many successful women still torture themselves with bouts of compulsive exercise or fits of dieting. Self-image problems blind them to their positive qualities and undermine self-esteem. In The Woman's Guide to Total Self-Esteem, a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst offer a comprehensive new approach to negative self-image. They help women confront their old destructive beliefs and start reconstructing all the components for healthy and fulfilling self-esteem.Through vivid stories and over 50 step-by-step exercises, readers will heal old wounds and learn the building blocks for a stronger, healthier and self-assured outlook. Final chapters suggest that gaining total self-esteem is a lifelong process in which setbacks are merely opportunities to grow stronger.