| Your self-esteem may have become damaged in | | | | are honoring yourself when you start treating yourself |
| your childhood. A significant caregiver of your past | | | | as though you are valuable. This doesn't mean you |
| gave you messages that you were not as good as | | | | don't wish to change and evolve, it just means you |
| you should be. They did not esteem you in the | | | | accept who you are. |
| appropriate way. These messages then became part | | | | Having healthy self-esteem is a process where you |
| of your own opinion of yourself. You believed the | | | | lose needing others approval and you learn to develop |
| messages that you were worth less than others. | | | | your own appreciation for yourself. You also learn how |
| You may have never learned to value yourself from | | | | to accept compliments from others. You may have |
| within. You may have false self-esteem revolving | | | | had a hard time doing that because you did not see |
| around your possessions based on what you 'have'. If | | | | yourself as worthy of any praise. |
| you do not have good self-esteem, you judge yourself | | | | But you are worthy. You have the right to stand up for |
| harshly. Sometimes you build your self-esteem on | | | | yourself. You have the right to say no to things you do |
| what is beyond your control, which is dependent upon | | | | not want in your life. You don't have to take on |
| the choices of others and how they view you. | | | | additional responsibilities you are not ready for. You |
| Often what people refer to as thinking with regards to | | | | don't have to compromise your integrity because |
| your self-esteem is actually just taking the opinions of | | | | others want you to do something you don't want to. |
| others and reprocessing them. Thinking independently | | | | And you never have to feel guilty or apologize for |
| actually develops self-esteem within you. Being | | | | what you do, think or feel. |
| responsible for yourself without relying on the opinions | | | | You must love yourself before you can truly love |
| of others will enhance your self-responsibility, which is | | | | others. If you don't love yourself, you will continue |
| essential to self-esteem. | | | | looking outside yourself for confirmation of your worth. |
| Taking control of your own lives is the foundation of | | | | Once you build your self-esteem and start extending |
| honoring yourself. When you learn self-acceptance, | | | | that self-esteem and honoring others, you may be |
| you will grow. You were born a remarkable being. You | | | | amazed at what it does for your relationships. |