The Psychology of Self-Esteem

Almost all therapeutic orientations help clients confront previously avoided conflicts or challenges. My technique differs in th ...

challenges of life. Their responses to events are shaped in part by who and what they think they are—how competent and worthy th ...

more ambitious, not necessarily in a career or a financial sense but in terms of hopes for experience in life— emotionally, inte ...

Children who have the best chance of acquiring the foundation for healthy self-esteem tend to have parents who Raise them with ...

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem What then are these practices? More than three decades of study have convinced me that six practi ...

Using a wide repertoire of interventions that remove obstructions to awareness^4 Making the client aware of the self-destructiv ...

or admire but an expression of me nonetheless, at least at the time it occurred." It is the virtue of realism—of respect for rea ...

I am responsible for the level of consciousness I bring to my relationships. I am responsible for my behavior with other people ...

typically elicits such endings as, "I'd care more about them; I'd take them more seriously; I'd think about them; I'd exert more ...

purposefully on the job, or in your marriage, or in your relationship with your children, or in therapy itself, what do you imag ...

cruise. When she knew their insurance was adequate, she often found herself recommending a longer hospital stay for her patients ...

have more knowledge than we normally are aware of; we have more wisdom than we use and more potential than is typically displaye ...

for this stem: If any of what I wrote this week is true, it might be helpful if I.... If the client finds this program helpful, ...

If it turns out I am more than my mother's child.... I am becoming aware.... This last stem often is used at the end of a chain ...

A Thirty-One-Week Sentence-Completion Exercise for Self-Esteem Enhancement Week 1 If I bring more awareness to my life today.... ...

Week 5 If I am more accepting of my body.... If I deny and disown my body.... When I deny or disown my conflicts.... If I am mor ...

Week 10 Self-responsibility to me means.... If I take 5 percent more responsibility for my life and well-being.... When I avoid ...

Week 14 If (when I was young) someone had told me my wants really mattered.... If (when I was young) I had been taught to honor ...

Week 18 If I bring 5 percent more integrity to my relationships.... If I remain loyal to the values I believe are right.... If I ...

One of the ways my teenage self gets back at me for rejecting him or her is.... Week 22 At the thought of giving my child self w ...