Do You Have Low Self Esteem?

That’s Great Janis… I loved it. Low Self Esteem is a huge Non-Vocational barrier to person’s day to day life and growth. I do carry workshops ( 3 days – Total 15 hours) aimed at immroving self esteem, motivation, self belief, career plans, empowerment, overcoming addictions -Alcohol, Smoking, Gambling, Drugs. It helps them in choosing and moving on a right track .

This is all true for writers too – it is all art in one form or another I guess. I could really relate to this as I struggle with clinical depression and an anxiety order. With therapy and medication, I have become much more confident, having said that though, often my best works come from my darkest days. Therefore I try to use my condition as a tool rather than sit around and letting it pull me down.
Oh, I’m going on way too much! Great article Janis!

I can’t compete with the great comments above, so I will just say Thanks for posting a great article.

Nope, but its my lifework to help people who do:-).Good article. Self esteem and the underlying nagging shame that lies and says “something is wrong with me” can really hold people back, and cause a lot of pain.

Thanks for posting this! Very incisive.

Thanks for caring enough to reach out to others who are in spiritual need! Bless you & your efforts, dear Janis! Thank you so very much for submitting this needed information! Cheers to you!

Smiles Leilani :o)

Thanks so much & this work of yours has been featured tonight!

Leilani :o)

This is a fantastic piece of writing. I can confirm that it is rife amongst the scientific community as well, although perhaps in a slightly different form. ironically it is part of the training to question everything and this often spills over into questioning “self ability”. It is interesting to note that the Dali Lamba had not come across “Low self esteem” when it was discussed in the book “The art of Happiness”. It would seem the people of Tibet do not have such a concept. In fact, Howard Cuttler the co-writer had to explain in detail what LSE is before the Dali Lamba could grasp the concept.

I can recommend “Wherever you go, there you are” by Jon Kabat-Zinn as part of a training in mindfulness and overcoming LSE. One of the chapters specifically mentions, undoing the damage done by parent and teachers. In the end you learn to be YOU, hence the title.

Thank you again for putting this article on RB. To anyone suffering LSE, may you grow in confidence and may you feel your OWN worth. Comments and features on RB are a good starting point!!!! :-)

This is great Janis, thank you, I feel this fits me to a t as I received alot of criticism and very little praise when I was a child, and thought there must be something wrong with me and it is something I have to work on, to believe in me. Thanks again, for posting this, it is very helpful.

He has much wisdom Janis. Thanks for posting it…it’s a good reminder to all : )

Nope! I probably love me a lot more than I’m supposed to. LOL It was really a great article Janis, one that made a lot of sense. Thanks for posting, I enjoyed reading it.

Well, I’ll admit it! Yes, I do. I suffer terribly from LSE. Thank you for posting this very valuable article.

I truly find it hard to believe that it’s only 10% : )

thanks for posting this… any info on these things is always helpful info. x

I think a lot of people would be open to other articles, even the one on abuse because so many have experienced it. Worse case, they don’t have to read it : ) Just my opinion.

I read this yesterday Janis and did not have time to comment..but wanted to come back to it…thanks so much for all these informative articles…self esteem can be a very fraglie thing…and something that need working on if it has been damaged..been there and recovered from that in my 20s …there is so much more to this article and makes one think…a great read!

Low self esteem has always been a problem for me, but now I am experiencing a new problem.

When you have low self-esteem, people often try to encourage and be kind, but when you start to gain a little self-esteem many don’t like that.

When I first joined Redbubble I was nervous of exhibiting my artwork in case people would scoff me. Over the two years I have been here my self-esteem as an artist has blossomed. It’s still precarious and a little fragile, but I am more confident of myself now. As a result of my increased confidence, a few people have been using the phrase “attention-seeker” to describe my recent burst of enthusiasm for my own work.

I suppose when we are unsure of ourselves we are not a threat to anyone, but as someone said to me recently, some people may now be of the opinion I need taking down a peg or two.

For obvious reasons I am not naming them, but there are some lovely people on Redbubble who have also had self-esteem issues and I have found them very helpful and encouraging and wish to thank them. They know who they are.

Thanks for putting this up….LSE is something I’ve been working on all my life, too….but , like Dave says, there are a lot lof lovely people on here who help to lift us up, and it also helps us to be encouraging to others….thanks again Jan!

Janis, this is great – not only the article itself, but the comments RBers have contributed to it. Obviously, LSE is an issue that so many of us have to deal with and I for one really appreciate your care and interest on our behalf to post these articles. Yes, please send us more, friend! And thank you so much!