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#41 STRUGGLING WITH A BASIC NEED: SELF ESTEEM Psychologically challenged, I’m struggling to find the road to emotional maturity and make peace with myself. I seek a sense of my own intrinsic value, self respect, confidence in my ability to see life as a challenge—not a threat—and being able to enjoy it in relaxed fashion. I want to leave behind what’s inside me too often now: feeling alienated, unworthy, shame, that I can’t cope, that I’m a failure; too concerned about what others think of me; anxiety, fear, and self doubt. When I’m really down on myself, with this battle raging inside, I lose hope. |
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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #41: Struggling With A Basic Need: Self Esteem |
| An Online Guide to Improving Self Esteem |
| The Costs and Causes of Low Self Esteem |
| Emotional Maturity (list of characteristics of a person who has achieved true adulthood) |
| Self Esteem (from Performance Unlimited website) |
| Psychology Today Magazine (magazine which claims it is "here to help") |
| Vision--Changing the Self in Self Esteem |
| Happiness, Depression, and Self Concept |
| Sand Play Therapy (from the Sandplay Therapists of America website) |
| National Association for Self Esteem |
| American Counseling Association |
| Self Esteem Information (from Self Growth website) |
| Building Self Esteem--A Self Help Guide (online booklet from The National Mental Health Information Center) |
| Building Self Esteem (from More Self Esteem website) |
| Raising Self Esteem (from Best Self Esteem website) |
| Proud2BMe.org (Dutch--American mental health website promoting body confidence) |
| The Perfection Trap by Thomas Curran (book review from The Economist May 27 2023) |
| "Cognitive Dissonance For Environmental & Earth Scientists" by David Waterworth (from CleanTechnica August 26 2022) |
| “Here’s How To Test Your Level of Self-Esteem + three tips for improving it.” by Jessica Estrada (from wellandgood.com March 20 2022) |
| To
Boost Your Emotional Intelligence, Stop Using This Word Inside Your Head
by Minda Zetlin
(self-talk is extremely powerful, research shows / post on Inc.com
website Jan 2021) |
| Male
Loneliness (report from The Economist January 1 2022) |
| “American
Parents Are Way Too Focused on Their Kids’ Self-Esteem” by Melinda
Moyer
(from The Atlantic July 21
2021) |
| "Stuck With Yourself" by Sam Lansky (essay in Time June 22 2020) |
| “Self-esteem key to treating mental health” (Science Daily Feb 2018 report on University of Waterloo research) |
"Acts of kindness prevent a downward spiral from solitude to loneliness" (article in The Economist April 18 2020) |
| Out
of Isolation (review of book
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing, in The
Economist Mar 19 2016) |
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"PTSD:
Fear Itself" (report on new advances in understanding / treating
PTSD from The Economist October 24 2015) |
| "The
Weaker Sex: Men Adrift—No Jobs, No Family, No Prospects" (cover
story from The Economist
May 30 2015) |
| Self Help That Works: Resources to Improve Emotional Health by John C. Norcross, etal (more on this 2013 book from Oxford Univ. Press) |
| Exercise and Self Esteem in Teens (Oct 2012 report by Wency Leung on results of scientific study) |
| "Pain of Ostracism Can Be Deep, Long-lasting" (June 2011 report based on Purdue University research) |
| Self Esteem and Guide to Eating Disorder Issues |
| "Media and Body Image" by Joel Miller (w/ "20 tips to help you feel better about your body", links to other resources) |
| "How the Cult of Self Esteem is Ruining Our Children" by Lori Gottlieb The Atlantic July 2011 |
| The Self Esteem Trap by Polly Young Eisendrath (read excerpts of this 2008 book at Google Books) |
| "Emotional Maturity in Light of Positive Psychotherapy Practice" by Ivan Kirillov |
| "What is Normal?" by Peter D. Kramer (article in Nov 2009 Psychology Today) |
| "When Sadness is a Good Thing" by John Cloud (August 27, 2007 Time article) |
| Self Esteem by Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning (Amazon provides more about this best-selling 2000 book) |
| Life Strategies--Doing What Works, Doing What Matters by Phil McGraw (read excerpts of 2000 book at Google Books) |
| Essays: Self Esteem |
| My Declaration of Self Esteem, by Virginia Satir (inspiring poem) |
| Lack of Self Confidence (a Buddhist perspective) |
| The Problem With Self Esteem (a Catholic Educator's View) |
| Near Death Experiences and Hell (psychological research) |
| "Are Heaven and Hell Only a State of Mind?" (forum offering various responses to this question) |
| Low Self Esteem (a Hindu perspective) |
| Self Actualization (from Performance Unlimited website) |
| quotes about self respect |
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As you shop in "The Reality Marketplace" avoid
spending your "reality cash" too early, before you have
seen
everything. "
from Coming of Age in the Global Village,
by
Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows.