Self-esteem is something few of possess in sufficient quantities. To whatever degree it might be, somehow most of us are a bit short in the self-esteem department. And when our self-esteem isn’t up to par, we know it and we know it well. And because we know it so well, we strategize how we can boost it, supplement it, inflate it or prop it up.
Our low self-esteem leaves us so achingly empty that we’re often chasing it in a panicked and rather pell-mell manner. Low self-esteem imparts some sense of desperate desperation that we desperately long to eliminate. Therefore, the efforts to eliminate those feelings are typically reflexive, less than full informed, and largely ineffectual. In order to cure the vexing issue of self-esteem we need to be much more thoughtful and exceedingly more focused. To do that, we might wish to consider four fallacies that haunt our self-esteem and undercut our efforts to build it.
Craig Lounsbrough
M. Div., LPC