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Women and Low Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is a very important tool in your back of tools for personal growth and development. It has been said, by others more knowledgeable and experienced than me, that women are often seen to be the one who suffer the most from low self-esteem. It is not that there is a special group who are often seen to be inflicted it also includes those women who appear to have everything altogether and seem to know themselves on the surface often suffer from low self-esteem in the privacy of their own company.

One school of thought lays the blame for this on the power of publishers, news, magazines and movies in that they promote the ‘super female‘ from perfect hair, skin, teeth, body shape, career, life partner and on and on. Advertisers have used these methods of promoting the latest and greatest (…… fill the blanks …….) that if you buy this, read that, rub on the other and abstain from something else that you too can gain “perfection” – like the Stepford Wives movie.

Confidence is something that comes from within it’s not the latest accessory that you can pick at Wal-Mart or Walgreens.

It’s not something that you will experience after you’ve reached a certain level of perfection.

Self-esteem is something that you must cultivate from the inside.

Then and not till then can you arrive at true happiness and be confident in your own skin.

If you are a woman struggling with self-esteem issues, here are some tips that may help you:

· Stop looking up to your peers in a try to gain their approval – they are people too with fears and failings.

· List those things that you like about yourself and use these to expand your positive qualities.

· When you feel Yuk be honest about why its so and you don’t feel good about yourself. Next figure out how to change this Yuk feeling.

· Keep away from situations and people who are negative and bring you down and make you feel bad about yourself.

Remember…only you can control your own self-esteem.

Don’t expect someone else to make you feel better if they do it will only be for a flash and won’t last very long.

Take care of you – because you’re worth it.

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