Empowering Women: A Guide to Loving Yourself, Breaking Rules, and Bringing Good into Your Life

196 Pages·2018·16.79 MB·English

by  Louise Hay

Louise
Woman's
Guide to
Successful
Living
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EMPOWERING
Women
BOOKS. AUDIOS. AND VIDEOS BY
LOUISE L. HAY
* Books * You Can Heal Your Life (Audio Book)
Colors & Numbers You Can Heal Your Life Study Course
Empowering Women
A Garden of Thoughts: My Affirmation Journal * Conversations on
Gratitude: A Way of Life (Louise and Friends) Living Lecture Series *
Heal Your Body Change and Transition
Heal Your Body A-Z Dissolving Barriers
Heart Thoughts: A Treasury of Inner Wisdom The Forgotten Child Within
Letters to Louise How to Love Yourself
Life! Reflections on Your Journey The Power of Your Spoken Word
Love Your Body Receiving Prosperity
Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook Totality of Possibilities
Loving Thoughts for Health and Healing Your Thoughts Create Your Life
Loving Thoughts for Increasing Prosperity
Loving Thoughts for a Perfect Day * Personal Power Through
Meditations to Heal Your Life
Imagery Series *
Millennium 2000 (Louise and Friends)
Anger Releasing
101 Power Thoughts
Forgiveness/Loving the Inner Child
101 Ways to Happiness
101 Ways to Health and Healing
* Subliminal Mastery Series *
The Power Is Within You
Feeling Fine Affirmations
You Can Heal Your Life
(also in gift edition) Love Your Body Affirmations
Safe Driving Affirmations
Self-Esteem Affirmations
* Coloring Books/Audiocassettes
Self-Healing Affirmations
for Children * Stress-Free Affirmations
Lulu and the Ant: A Message of Love
Lulu and the Dark: Conquering Fears
* CDs *
Lulu and Willy the Duck: Learning Mirror Work
Atmospheres and Affirmations (with Mark Chait)
Self-Esteem Affirmations
* Audiocassettes *
Aids: A Positive Approach
* Videocassettes *
Cancer: Discovering Your Healing Power
Dissolving Barriers
Change Your Thoughts. Change Your Life
Doors Opening: A Positive Approach to Aids
(with Michael Toms)
Receiving Prosperity
Elders of Excellence
You Can Heal Your Life Study Course
Empowering Women
Your Thoughts Create Your Life
Feeling Fine Affirmations
Gift of the Present with Joshua Leeds
* Card Decks *
Heal Your Body (Audio Book)
Healthy Body Cards
Life! Reflections on Your Journey (Audio Book)
Power Thought Cards
Love Your Body (Audio Book)
Power Thoughts for Teens
Loving Yourself
Wisdom Cards
Meditations for Personal Healing
Meditations to Heal Your Life (Audio Book)
Morning and Evening Meditations Available at your local bookstore, or call:
Overcoming Fears
The Power Is Within You (Audio Book) [phone]
Self Healing
Tools for Success Please visit the Hay House Website at:
What I Believe/Deep Relaxation www.hayhouse.com
EMPOWERING
Women
Every Woman's Guide
to Successful Living
Louise L. Hay
HAY
HOUSE
Hay House, Inc.
Carlsbad, California • Sydney, Australia
Copyright © 1997 by Louise L. Hay
Published and distributed in the United States bv:
Hay House, Inc., P.O. Box 5100, Carlsbad, CA 92018-5100
[phone] • [phone] (fax)
Edited by: Jill Kramer Designed by: Christy Salinas
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any
mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a
phonographic recording, nor may it be stored in a retrieval system,
transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private use—other
than for "fair use" as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews
without prior written permission of the publisher.
The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe
the use of am technique as a form of treatment for physical 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 well-being and good
health. In the event you use any of the information in this book for
yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publish-
er assume no responsibility for your actions.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hay, Louise L.
Empowering women every woman's guide to successful living /
Louise L. Hay.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-56170-357-5 (hardcover) • ISBN 1-56170-609-4 (tradepaper)
1. Women—Psychology. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology)
I. Title.
HQ1206.H484 1997
158.T082-dc21 96-46627
CIP
ISBN 1-56170-609-4
04 03 02 01 1211 10 9
1st printing, January 1997
5th printing (Tradepaper), October 1999
9th printing, October 2001
Printed in the United States of America
# Loelteelts *
About Empowering Women xi
Introduction xiii
CHAPTER
I: Getting Started: We Have Much to Do and
Much to Learn 1
II : Advertising: Targeting Women s Self-Esteem 11
III : Choosing Positive Thoughts and Beliefs 17
IV: Your Relationship with ...Yourself 49
V: Children, Parenting, and Self-Esteem 57
VI: Creating Your Own Good Health 67
VII: Exploring Sexuality 89
VIII: Sexual Harassment and Speaking Out 93
IX: Getting Older: Improving the Quality of Your Life . . 1 09
X: Building a Financially Secure Future 133
XI: Women in Support of Women 143
Conclusion 153
APPENDIX
Self-Help Resources 161
Recommended Reading 172
About the Author 173