You heard it many times – you can’t love anyone until you love yourself. But it is also true that it is very difficult to love someone, who doesn’t love themselves. Loving yourself is an all-encompassing term. It means knowing, accepting and valuing yourself. A woman suffering from a low self esteem is the one who doesn’t know, accept and …
Sometimes we become used to people treating us badly. We may believe these people are our friends and family, who know us more than anyone else, so they are allowed to drop a negative comment or point out our flaws once in a while. The moment when we try to grow and improve ourselves, these relationships get tested. And unfortunately, …
To change something that was being built for a long time we first need to have a very good look at it. To build a healthy self-esteem we need to analyze our current belief system and question it to change what’s not working well for us. For some women their self-esteem suffers the most in the area of body image, …
Now that we know the main symptoms of low self-esteem it is time to analyze what healthy self-esteem looks like. We can sometimes confuse high self-esteem with arrogance and pride. But healthy self-esteem doesn’t put us above others, like pride and arrogance do. It only allows us to take good care of ourselves in a healthy way. Kind Healthy self-esteem …
Our mind is always in conversation. Whether or not we interact with the outside world, our mind is always saying something to us. Just like your thoughts about your friends indicate the relationship you have with them, the thoughts that you have about yourself show your relationship with self. A low self-esteem is when this internal conversation is quite negative …
Self-esteem is an image that we hold of ourselves. It is made of our beliefs, thoughts, values and words we use when addressing ourselves in the internal dialogue. It is what we allow ourselves and what we allow others in relation to us. It is a complex thing, but very evasive and one that we don’t analyse or notice often …
Have you ever met people who tend to get better things in life? It can even seem unfair sometimes. They just ask for it – and people give it to them. They say no to someone – and nobody is blaming them. One common thing people like that have is a belief that they are worthy. Our self esteem and …
Does love really conquer all? Sometimes we enter the relationship being too optimistic about it, because we are in love and we believe that two loving people will surely work out all the problems. While it is true to some extent, there are also some scenarios, when your love and your ability to give it all will not be enough …
They say there are 2 kinds of people – the ones who like to give and the ones who like to receive gifts. Whatever category you belong to, if you give a gift to yourself, your joy is guaranteed. Since February is considered a month of love and since we are usually busy thinking of gifts to our partners this …
Toxic relationship can leave you really wounded and mess up your self esteem. Even if your partner was not narcissistic and didn’t bring you down verbally, the whole experience can make you start doubting yourself. Toxic relationships tend to consume us completely, because our hope for things changing for the better makes us work extra-hard and give all our energy …