When Low Self-Esteem Beats You!

In textbook terms, self-esteem is your overall opinion of yourself — how you feel about your abilities and limitations. When you have a healthy self-esteem, you feel good about yourself and see yourself as deserving the respect of others. On the other hand, if you have low self-esteem, you put little value on your own opinions and ideas and you may even constantly worry that you aren’t good enough. Herein lays the problem.

Although negative beliefs are said to be caused by experiences one may have encountered in life such as workplace bullying or intimidation, abusive relationships, persistent stress or hardship, or traumatic events, most of the negative beliefs are said to mainly come from one’s childhood.  Families may not know it, but they will be raising little Hitler’s and Pinocchio’s right under their roofs.