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    Finding Connection Within
    Finding Connection Within
    Finding Connection Within
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    Finding Connection Within

    By Mee-Gaik Lim Ph.D.

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    Are you consumed by unhealthy, toxic scripts that deplete your self-validation and self-acceptance? Finding Connection Within helps you challenge these scripts and create healthy, self-honoring, and self-respecting scripts to express yourself genuinely, congruently, and freely. To ignite personal connection, this book provides multiple creative tools to inscribe uplifting, inspiring, and invigorating thoughts to help one enrich life with authentic interactions. Various tools will enable readers to lean into life with courageous fortitude to find attunement, contentment, and fulfillment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateJul 14, 2022
    ISBN9798765230824
    Finding Connection Within
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    Mee-Gaik Lim Ph.D.

    Mee-Gaik Lim is a marriage and family therapist, professor, professional speaker, and clinical supervisor. She has been teaching in the field for over thirty years and has an active clinical practice. Her YouTube channel, Authentic Expressions, focuses on helping individuals construct healthy, functional scripts to enjoy attunement, contentment, and fulfillment in life. The channel focuses on challenging individuals to embrace self-honoring and self-respecting practices to build authentic interactions. She received her doctorate in marriage and family therapy from Texas Woman’s University in 1991. Dr. Mee-Gaik Lim has authored numerous articles in professional journals, and she has presented internationally and nationally on topics related to strengthening family relationships.

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      Finding Connection Within - Mee-Gaik Lim Ph.D.

      Copyright © 2022 Mee-Gaik Lim.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or

      mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the

      written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of

      treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or

      indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest

      for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself,

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      ISBN: 979-8-7652-3081-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 979-8-7652-3082-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2022912099

      Balboa Press rev. date: 07/14/2022

      Acknowledgments

      To my nieces and nephews who have enriched my life

      with lessons of patience and acceptance.

      Contents

      1     Successful Ways to Ask for What We Want

      2     How to Handle Reactive and Explosive Behaviors

      3     Words That Can Implement Change in Your Life

      4     Practical Steps to Increase Happiness in Your Life

      5     My Personal Bill of Rights

      6     Constraints of Self-Limiting Thoughts

      7     Healing of Self-Abandonment

      8     Keys to Strengthen Personal Authenticity

      9     The Dance of Self-Sabotaging Relationships

      10   The Importance of Being Present for Yourself

      11   The Value of Self-Reflection

      12   Chatter of Inadequacy and Insufficiency

      13   Living Life with Courage

      14   The Pitfalls of Self-Judgment

      15   How to Overcome Inadequacy and Insufficiency Self-Talk

      1

      Successful Ways to Ask for What We Want

      People generally don’t assert themselves because they are not familiar with asking for what they want. Asking for what you want is uncomfortable for most people. It may have led to arguments or rejection in the past; hence, it’s easier for people to take the path of least resistance and avoid making waves in their relationships.

      Since it takes courageous effort to voice our needs, we may fall into the habit of putting our feelings, thoughts, and interests on hold for fear of being turned down or rejected. Not expressing ourselves openly and honestly may eventually lead to resentment and may also hinder our ability to be transparent and voice ourselves freely in relationships.

      Our inability to openly ask for

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