Overcoming Low Self Esteem

How’s it going with stopping your abusive self talk? This may take you some time to do, but you’ll progress well if you just stay with it.  Today, I have some ideas on how you can learn to treat yourself more kindly. Yesterday, I asked you how you would treat someone you cared about. You would probably not abuse them, certainly, but you might even do something nice for them.

Maybe you tell them you care about them, or would buy them something they want from time to time. In general, it’s likely that you would encourage them both verbally and through your actions, and you would do what you could and to make sure they knew they were loved and cared for.

It’s time you did this for yourself, too. Here are three simple self esteem tips you can do to start:

1) Make sure to spend time doing things you enjoy. If you have low self-esteem, often you don’t do things you want to simply because you’re either too busy trying to please others and don’t have time, or because you haven’t paid attention to what you really want to do, to what will make you relax and have fun.

From this point on, start making time to do things you love, such as pursuing creative endeavors, socializing with friends and family, reading books you’ve always wanted to, watching a favorite movie, spend time on journaling hopes and dreams, or taking part in hobbies you enjoy. What you do doesn’t really matter, except that you have to have fun and you actually have to do it and you will be on the important path to overcoming low self esteem.