How You Can Work on Your Self-Esteem

<aside> 👉🏽 Using your strengths

Practicing gratitude – “3 Good Things Today”

Increase focus on positive things

Identifying OR changing your “core beliefs” about yourself

Identifying positive traits about yourself

Stop listening to your inner critic.

Self-compassion

Contribute to society, random acts of kindness, do meaningful things

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When you’re starting to feel inadequate or low, sit back and think about why you’re feeling inadequate.

On a piece of paper or in a journal, write down all the awful things you’re saying that are making you believe you’re inadequate.

On the other side of the page, write down a kind, compassionate (and ultimately more realistic) response to those criticisms.

<aside> 👉🏽 “You’re so fat and ugly,” could be replaced with “I have pretty eyes, clear skin and a straight, bright smile.”

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<aside> 👉🏽 “You’re so dumb. You don’t even have a degree,” could be replaced with “I’m a really good writer, a fantastic photographer, and I could go back to school anytime I wanted to. I know I’d do really well because I have life experience now too.”

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When your inner critic wants to start annihilating you, stop it in its tracks.

All of these beliefs may make us very anxious to avoid rejection and/or overly keen to seek validation from others

There are 3 types of negative beliefs we have about ourselves