Six Easy Ways to Increase Your Self Esteem Today

The things I am about to tell you in this article, you likely have heard before, but if you are having issues with self-esteem, you need something greater than knowledge to “fix” your problem.

This lack of self esteem really does plague modern society, it’s easy to feel inferior when we have a culture that is rather artificial. Let’s face it, you may want to look like the models in Cosmopolitan but, so do these models! They don’t actually look the way they appear on the cover of the magazine, they are airbrushed so that they appear the flawless perfection that you see.

I say all of this to make the point that we have a culture that thrives upon making “ordinary” people look inferior, and feel inferior to those who use the product that’s being sold!

I want to talk a little bit about self-esteem in this piece. I will get to the list in a minute …

Now, I just want to say that I will not be telling anyone how to have a “high” self esteem, but rather a healthy and balanced self esteem. You see, with a high self esteem, you may be blinded by your own confidence, but with healthy self esteem you have an accurate concept of yourself that reflects reality! The benefit of this is that you will have self-acceptance and self-respect and you will not define yourself by any failures you have encountered in your life along the way.

It’s not all your fault if you have low self esteem! Generally people with healthy self esteem have been respected and given a lot of hope by parents and have had a good start in life. None of us have any control over this! Perhaps you were bullied, perhaps you never had much support from your parents in your youth – and none of these things are your fault, but to be frank with you – any response that you have to this is your responsibility, and as a therapist and a coach, this is the main area in which I would help you.

If all of this weren’t already bad enough, because you were trained to think in a low way about yourself, you began to be critical of yourself! We become quite literally our own biggest critic, and to an extent, our own worst enemy! My work is to help you to become friends with yourself, and to be your own cheerleader, and to be your own supporter!