Your self-esteem
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Your self-esteem
| Wed, 07-05-2006 - 12:27pm |
What do you do to be sure that you maintain a healthy self-esteem/self-image or whatever you'd like to call it?
I find it difficult to ignore signals that seem to be coming from everywhere, telling us how we don't measure up.

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From what I'm reading, it seems like you were one of the lucky ones.
My mom did grow up the same way, which you'd think would teach her that it's not productive, but it's taken awhile for that to hit her.
The book is called When Your Best Isn't Good Enough by Kevin Leman.
I don't agree that we shouldn't judge people - at least I don't agree with that blanket statement. Our society sets up rules of what kind of behaviour is acceptable and what isn't. We would be a lawless land without judgment. And, as Shy said, many people have trouble childhoods and some are able to move forward in a healthy way. Others may not be, but that does not excuse them behaving in a way that could endanger other people. Sometimes judgment is necessary.
My mother and all of her sisters were abused by their father. One turned out to be a drunk and a drug addict and, as I mentioned in the other thread, numerous people bent over backwards to give her help and opportunities to help herself. She didn't take advantage of them and ended up killing a woman. None of her sisters did anything like that. I judge her harshly for her behaviour.
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