The Self-Confidence Workbook: A Guide to Overcoming Self-Doubt and Improving Self-Esteem

by Barbara Markway, Celia Ampel, Teresa Flynn (Foreword by)

Overview

Discover tools to help you build self-confidence for a better life.

From facing your fears to practicing acceptance and self-compassion, The Self-Confidence Workbook offers practical and effective strategies to help you bring out your best self. You'll learn how to guide yourself through having self-confidence in relationships, work, and health. With a goal-oriented approach, these proven strategies teach you to silence the self-critic within and help guide you toward living your best life with confidence.

This self esteem workbook helps you vanquish self-doubt with:

• DEFINING CONFIDENCE: A guide to understanding self-confidence by defining what it means to be confident and helping you determine your starting level of self-esteem.
• STRATEGIES FOR SELF-ACCEPTANCE: This book entails a 5-step program that begins with setting goals and uses evidence-based strategies to foster acceptance, mindfulness, self-compassion, and more.
• INTERACTIVE EXERCISES: Discover reflections, checklists, and quizzes to help you internalize lessons and concepts.

Improve self-confidence in all areas of your life to feel fully alive with this top choice in motivational books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641521499
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	06/17/2025
Series:	Building Self-Confidence
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

BARBARA MARKWAY, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with nearly 30 years of experience and is the author of four other books. She has appeared on Good Morning America and the Today Show, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Real Simple, Business Insider, and other national publications. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, Greg.

Editorial Reviews

"The Self-Confidence Workbook is a book you'll come back to time and time again when you need either strategies or warmth and encouragement. The content is immensely relatable and the book is packed with quick, science-backed takeaways."—Dr. Alice Boyes, author of The Anxiety Toolkit and The Healthy Mind Toolkit

“ Dr. Markway’s book deftly integrates sound, evidence-based principles and applies them to the challenge of promoting self-confidence. Those who read The Self-Confidence Workbook will learn that self-confidence is not some unattainable trait or static state of being. It is an approach to living. It is something a person chooses to work toward. If you choose to work toward self-confidence, this book will help you get there.”—C. Alec Pollard, PhD, Director, Center for OCD and Anxiety-Related Disorders, Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute, Professor, Emeritus of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

" Dr. Markway does it again! With spot-on exercises and sound, science-based advice, this workbook will help your fledgling confidence grow, stretch its wings, and take flight. With clear, compassionate guidance, Dr. Markway shows you how to make your dreams come true."—Ellen Hendriksen, PhD, author of How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety

"In The Self-Confidence Workbook, Barbara Markway and Celia Ampel provide a map for building true confidence based on self-awareness, presence, and our inherent strength. This book is for anyone who thinks confidence could never be available to them."—Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, Psychologist and author of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple

"This useful book takes the stigma out of struggles with self-doubt and provides concrete tools and exercises to help you achieve confidence and a calmer way of being. Dr. Markway’s compassionate and encouraging voice guides you through examples, practical advice, and strategies that will help you live more authentically. A great resource for anyone looking for self-improvement!"—Megan MacCutcheon, LPC, author of The Self-Esteem Workbook for Women

"For a hands-on way to learn how to overcome self-doubt and achieve your goals (even if you don't know what they are yet), turn to The Self-Confidence Workbook. Dr. Barbara Markway's book is like a grown-up study guide for a course in self-acceptance and compassion."—Hoku Krueger, “Self-Help Books for Beginners”, Livestrong.com

"I like it because: It's warm and nurturing, but still concise, to the point, and intensely practical. Some self-help books can come across like they're written for teenagers, but this one feels like it's written for adults, and like the authors are your partners on your journey. It's a good mix of short explanations, written exercises and behavioral challenges that are all based on sound research."—Alice Boyes, Ph.D., author of The Healthy Mind Toolkit and The Anxiety Toolkit

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