Understanding How Parental Responses, Expectations, and Emotional Availability Can Shape the Way You See Yourself When we think about self-esteem, we often imagine it as something that develops inside us:…

Understanding the Link Between Social Media, Comparison, Self-Esteem, and How You See Yourself You open social media for a few minutes. Someone has bought a beautiful house; someone else looks…

Understanding the Link Between Emotional Dependency, Self-Worth, and Emotional Security Have you ever noticed that you can feel perfectly fine when you are with someone you care about, yet become…

Understanding the Link Between Emotional Dependency, Self-Worth, and the Need for Reassurance Have you ever noticed how much your emotional state can depend on another person's attention, reassurance or response?…

Understanding the Link Between Your Thoughts, Self-Talk, and the Way You See Yourself Have you ever noticed how quickly one thought about yourself can change the way you feel about…

Understanding the Link Between Self-Worth, Self-Esteem, and How You See Yourself Have you ever received a genuine compliment and immediately felt the urge to dismiss it? Someone tells you that…

Negative self-talk can become so familiar that you stop noticing it. You may simply think, “I'm not good enough.” “I should have done better.” “Why am I like this?” “I always…

Why am I so hard on myself? It is a question many people ask only after they have already spent years living with an internal standard that seems almost impossible…

You may not think of yourself as someone who is particularly self-critical. Perhaps you simply have high standards, like to do things well, notice what could be improved, or tend…