How Being Homeless Can Hurt Your Self-Esteem Homelessness affects everyone, and no one is above becoming homeless. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, roughly 2.3 to 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness at least once a year, with more than 600,000 being homeless on any given night. Often, homelessness becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, when someone who becomes homeless loses …
Be Happy with Who You Are with A Little Self-Care
Be Happy with Who You Are with A Little Self-Care Everyone can use a little mood boost once in a while. One of the best ways to kick in some feel-good for yourself is to employ a little self-care. Self-care is exactly what it sounds like. It’s about making time for yourself — doing what it takes to improve yourself …
Deflect Negative Emotions to Bolster Self-Esteem
Deflect Negative Emotions to Bolster Self-Esteem Your self-esteem begins to develop in early childhood, through seeking the approval of your parents and feeling bad about yourself when they disapprove of what you’ve done. This pattern can continue into adulthood, when you take any negative comments that you hear as though they were directed at you. You then take ownership of …
How Self-Care Helps You Care for Others
How Self-Care Helps You Care for Others It’s easy to suffer from burnout as a caregiver. Constantly giving of yourself to care for others can quickly deplete the resources you need to care for yourself. When you neglect caring for yourself, you get run-down, and sometimes resentful of others for taking too much of your time. Self-care is essential to …
What Would Jesus Do to Help Someone Learn Self-Care and Self-Love?
What Would Jesus Do to Help Someone Learn Self-Care and Self-Love? Self-love is about loving yourself for who you are, and being comfortable with it, not wishing that you look or acted a different way. Self-care is about taking care of yourself, giving yourself time for you and not spending all your free time doing for others so that you …
Self-Care Leads to Self-Worth
Self-Care Leads to Self-Worth The dictionary defines self-worth as: “the sense of one’s own value or worth as a person.” Self-worth is a feeling that comes from within. You can’t get it by having a sporty car, a high-paying job, or a fancy house. It comes from feeling good about yourself, just as you are. If you aren’t feeling good …
Addiction and Low Self Esteem: How Substances Hinder Self-Love
Addiction and Low Self Esteem: How Substances Hinder Self-Love Self-love begins with self-acceptance. In order to achieve self-love, you must be willing to accept the parts of yourself that you feel are not acceptable. You need to love your whole self, warts and all, in order to achieve self-love. Once you accept the parts of you that you may not like, …
Escaping Victimhood
Escaping Victimhood People don’t become victims. They open themselves to the opportunity. Believe it or not, becoming a victim often stems from a lack of taking responsibility for yourself. Maybe you blame others when something goes wrong in your life. Or you take the position that was something was done “to” you; it had nothing to do with your own …
Making Healthy Choices
Making Healthy Choices Making healthy choices in life isn’t always easy. From eating healthy to maintaining healthy relationships and staying healthy physically, just for starters, you have your plate full when it comes to making choices. Then there are the choices that are very tempting, but not very healthy. You need to have a clear head to make healthy choices, …
