self esteem

Letting Go – What are You Hanging Onto?

November 14, 2018 6 Comments

I am taking part in the #nablopomo18 writing party. If someone had asked what I was hanging onto I would simply say nothing I am perfectly happy in life. But in all honesty that would have been a lie. There are words spoken in my childhood that still haunt me, and no matter how many times I try to leave them in their past in the times where I am struggling, they always rear their ugly head. Those words I can remember so clearly. “She has to say that she is pretty because Read more [...]

How to Build Your Child’s Self-Esteem

September 1, 2017 Leave a Comment

It doesn’t matter how many years have passed since your childhood – chances are good that you still remember the times that you felt proud of yourself and the times you felt truly alone. Moments of heightened emotion such as these seldom stray very far from memory. Now that you’re a parent, it’s important to recall such episodes, as the assurances that you give your children during their earliest years will go a long way toward shaping who they become as adults. All children deserve Read more [...]

What Do People Really Think of the Person I am?

June 1, 2016 3 Comments

The other day, I told you about my painful childhood memory of being called ugly and having rocks thrown at me when I walked around the neighborhood. I told you that those memories have stayed with me and still haunt me to this day. But did you know that sometimes the way we see ourselves and the way other people see us don’t always add up? I decided to see if 4 of my closest friends saw me the same way that I saw myself. I asked them to write 2-3 sentences about me to see if the way I see myself Read more [...]

If You Only Knew… The Real Me

June 9, 2014 10 Comments

How many people know the real you?? People may think they know the real me but in actuality there are very few that know me very well. First, I mask my emotions. I am always happy on the outside but inside I am crying. I am often embarrassed when friends ask me to go out and I have to refuse. It is not because I don’t want to go out it is because I don’t have the money to go out with them. But instead of telling them up front and being embarrassed I just either blow them off or just say I Read more [...]