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Self-Esteem

Our self-esteem encompasses our feelings, beliefs, and emotions about ourselves and our capabilities. Self-esteem can be a useful framework to understand our underlying motivations for decisions and behaviors, especially when we examine whether our self-esteem is secure (not needing external validation) or defensive (based on comparison with or reassurance by others). While our sense of self-esteem is largely formed early in our lives (mainly through our experiences, personality, and social messaging), self-esteem is by no means static. It can change over time, especially as we become more aware of our own ability to change how we think about and interpret our own sense of self.

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Self-Esteem and Internal Revolution (Gloria Steinem)

Feminist Gloria Steinem discusses her book "Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem" with Upon Reflection host Marcia Alvar in this interview from the University of Washington. Steinem discusses her childhood experiences and events in her adult life that influenced the book.

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Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame

Parents act as a mirror to show a child who she or he is. Throughout childhood there will be other mirrors, but children inevitably return to the reflection in that original mirror in order to determine their goodness, importance, and self-worth.

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Why Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem

Boosting your ego won’t make you feel better. Instead, try talking to yourself like you would your best friend.

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FindCenter There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.

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Self-Doubt: What Is It All About? - Rhonda Cochrane - TEDxChilliwack

Rhonda explores the power of self-doubt. Its capacity to cripple, its tendencies to terrorize and how it convinces people to give up on their dreams. And ultimately... how to transform that self-doubt into a powerful catalyst for change.

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The Undervalued Self: Restore Your Love/Power Balance, Transform the Inner Voice That Holds You Back, and Find Your True Self-Worth

Elaine Aron follows up her bestsellers on the highly sensitive person with a groundbreaking new book on the undervalued self. She explains that self-esteem results from having a healthy balance of love and power in our lives.

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Challenging the Anti-Shame Zeitgeist

Despite a culture organizing to oppose shaming, it remains inevitable. But it doesn’t have to ruin lives.

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FindCenter Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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Why We Need to Stop Photoshop | Self-Care Sunday | Iskra

Welcome back to Self-Care Sundays! I have a problem with retouching and photoshopping when it's not done responsibly and honestly so we all know.

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I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough”

The quest for perfection is exhausting and unrelenting. There is a constant barrage of social expectations that teach us that being imperfect is synonymous with being inadequate. Everywhere we turn, there are messages that tell us who, what and how we’re supposed to be.

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