5 Ways To Improve Your Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is our view and opinion of ourselves, shaped by our thoughts and feelings from our experiences and relationships. When we have high self-esteem, we feel confident about ourselves, and we feel loved and understand that we have value as a person. Of course, we still have flaws and areas of ourselves that we need to work on, but overall, we have a healthy and balanced view of ourselves. With low self-esteem, however, we tend to view ourselves in a harsher, more negative light.

Have you found yourself shying away from social situations, being afraid to try new things, or even stopped doing the things you used to love? When we have low self-esteem, we can find that we shrink ourselves. We have these negative beliefs about ourselves: we aren’t good enough, smart enough, or pretty enough; that we aren’t worthy of love.

You can feel the effects of low self-esteem in nearly all areas of your life. Your personal relationships can be affected, your work and job performance, and of course, your mental and physical health can be affected too. Here are 5 ways to improve your self-esteem:

1. Build positive relationships
2. You want to build healthy and positive relationships around yourself. If there are people in your life that bring you down and add to that negative narrative of yourself, remove them. You want to…