Is There a Quick Fix for Low Self-esteem?

There are so many reasons for ones self-esteem to be weak and hard to rebuild. We have our parents way of raising us, peer pressure at school, pressures at our work place that expect us to succeed with speed of light, society`s view on the perfect person and body type, our children's expectations of a perfect parent and last but not least our partners wants and desires.

All of these are strong contributors in knocking our self-esteem around until we can barely find a hope to hang onto. Now we are at the bottom of our pit of weakness and we begin the search to survive. The search may be through a therapist, reading tons of articles or books, searching the internet for a site that will answer all our problems in a heart beat, only to find that we are right back at square one in the first challenge to our strength.

Why is that?
Why can we not find that quick fix we all look for?
Why do we have to work at it?
Why do we have to wait for it?
Why is it not as simple as fixing ones computer or car?
Why is it when I think about my past and I fill in the blanks with all the people that I have to blame for my low self-esteem, I am still weak and frustrated?
Why is it when I have one good day and feel on top of the world, does it come crashing down the next?
Why is it that when I read self-esteem articles they sound so convincing at that minute, but then again, I fall back into my rut?
Why, when I go into self-esteem sites, do they charge for e-books and when I finally read them, they sound like everything else that I have read, or have thought of myself?
Why does low self-esteem not happen to everyone?
Why can`t I just wake up and feel good about myself?

Questions! Questions!

I have a real hard truth for you. The answer to almost every question that you have just read is YOU!
You are the answer to every thought that runs through your mind.
The reason that so many factors can be contributors to ones low self-esteem, is because YOU have learned to allow it. Some where in your life, somehow, you allowed your self-esteem to be put down and it really is as simple as that.

We all know that to be human is to naturally error at some point, even many points in our lives. This will also explain why a select number have fallen into the pit of low self-esteem. Everyone chooses different errors, so for the many of us that have allowed our self-esteem to be weakened we are now faced with how to strengthen it.

Again I go back to YOU, it is up to you. I can write 1000 articles and even build you a bridge with lights and arrows and signs to show you the way, but if YOU do not take that first step, then YOU will never find the answers. In order for you to battle all of the contributors that I have mentioned earlier, you need to strengthen your self-worth. You must know and feel that you are just as good as any other human being on this earth. I do not care what others may say about you or to you. If you know deep inside of you that you are their equal, then nothing they say can or ever will hurt your self-esteem.

We have all had to bear the scars that we received through our lives, and we all have to learn to put them in the past. What was, is exactly that; past tense, gone. There is really nothing that we can do to change where we came from or what our challenges have been. What we need to focus on is right here and right now. This being the present YOU!

There are websites out there and many therapist that are selling you promises of quick fixes for cash. There are tons of books and ebooks, all telling you how to create a new you. Just by the amount of women coming into my site, I can tell that none of these are working for them. Again the reason is YOU!

I can buy you the most expensive car in the world, but unless you can drive it, it is worthless to you. So learn to drive it, learn to rebuild your self-esteem. Do not wait for someone to offer you a gift. You have already been given that gift at birth. I have spoken of the gift of life and how so many of us abuse that gift. Allowing contributors to stomp on your thoughts of who you are is a total neglect to your gift of life.

Your self-esteem has taken a long time to fall weak. It does not happen over night. A heart attack rarely happens overnight. There are many contributing factors that set it up for the initial attack. Once a person has survived a heart attack, they have to work very hard and it takes a long time to rehab back to health and maybe, if they are lucky enough, they will reach half of their actual strength. Your self-esteem will take time and energy to rebuild. You must commit to yourself that you will work very hard to maintain a good feeling about YOU!

It is not hard, but it does take persistence and self discipline. If you do not care about yourself, then you will fail every time. That is a fact.

If you honestly want to find that good feeling about you again, then you can get back there. I say back there, because we were all happy when we were first born and somewhere along that life line, we lost our feeling of goodness. Being lost is a good thing because it means that it is not totally gone, just misplaced.

So together we can find that YOU that was so secure and safe just being YOU. Once you have reached that commitment then you will start to fall in love with yourself again.

You will look for and appreciate all of the little things that make you who you are, such as:

-the color of your hair and eyes
-the shape of your ears, and your nose
-the way your smile shows your teeth
-the laugh lines that only you have when you smile
-the birth mark that no one else has
-the way you walk
-the sound of your voice
-your own very personnel laugh
-how you feel when someone hugs you
-how you smell
-your little personality quirks
but most of all
- how you feel about you. This positive feeling will give you an internal glow of confidence!

These are things that make you special and set you apart from all the other people in the world. People that are no better than you. Different yes, better? Not a chance, unless of course you ALLOW yourself to think that way.

Just because you cannot control or fix everything around you, it has no bearing on who you are and how you feel about yourself unless you ALLOW it to.

Just because somewhere way back in your past, someone told you that you were not as good as someone else, does not mean you are not. It only means that, if you ALLOW it to mean that.

Just because your boss thinks that you should be farther up that corporate ladder, it does not make you a lesser person unless you ALLOW it to.

Just because there are younger, thinner, more educated, richer, taller, or even double jointed people out there, that does not make you less than them, unless you ALLOW it to.

Just because you might be having a bad day does not mean that you have to make it 2 bad days, unless you ALLOW it to.

Just because you spend hundreds of dollars trying to find quick self-esteem fixes and fail, this does not mean you should give up unless of course you ALLOW yourself too.

Can you see a pattern here yet?
Can you see how YOU are the operative factor here?
Can you see how YOU alone are in control of what and who you ALLOW into your thought control?
Again, I am not saying that rebuilding your self-esteem will be easy or a quick fix.

I will not make you buy any e-books.
I will not try to play with your mind in order to keep you coming back.
I will however help you to learn how to re-think things and learn new habits of positive thinking.
I will also help you to find all of those good feeling things about you, that you seem to have stuck somewhere out of sight.
I will teach you how to smile and hug again.
I will teach you the importance of sharing your thoughts, whether it be to lighten your stress load or to help lighten another women's stress load. This is taught in my self-esteem forum:  

I will help you find you, the you that can feel good when you open your eyes in the morning, because no one deserves to wake up feeling low or lost.

I will help you rebuild your self-esteem again.
I have committed my thoughts and my energy to this site for that reason alone.

My site is open 24 hours a day and there is a ton of helpful, constructive advice.
The women in my forum are some of the most real people, intelligent, very sweet but most of all, the best non-judgemental supporters that I have had the pleasure meeting.

I welcome any women that feels that there is just nowhere left to turn to strengthen their self-worth and in turn rebuild their self-esteem.

http://www.womensselfesteem.com is here just for you and for no other reason!
-Dorothy Lafrinere

COMMENT: You always seem to nail it! Dorothy, I appreciate your words of wisdom. Keep at it, there is always going to be someone you cannot reach. Your words reach many. They are words that can change a heart and mind that is ready for change. MUAAAAAAAAAAH!
Posted by mommyrn

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