Internalized weight bias can lead to a negative self-image. Here's how to use self-compassion to stop the negative thoughts, including specific phrases to use.
Improve your self-image and self-worth by saying these positive affirmations daily. Shift your mindset and reframe your thinking through affirmations
The Chalkboard Mag on self-image: breaking out of your former self. Change your self image by breaking the patterns of your former self.
Developing a positive self-image is essential for your emotional wellbeing. In this post, you'll learn how to cultivate a positive self image and still be yourself.
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Teaching self-esteem habits to students can be tricky. And that's because it’s often best taught as the need arises to ensure a lasting impression upon the child. As school counselors, we want to give our students
When we look in the mirror, make plans, and think about anything there is always an inner understanding that we are a being. This understanding of being, or self, is extremely important for everything in life and not every animal is capable of such understanding. Lets explore what the self is and how it is developed.
If you want to improve your self-esteem and self-worth, always remember that all of it starts with you, not somebody else.
In the first part of this self esteem series, 10 Ways Emotional Conditioning Could Be Ruining Your Clients' Self Esteem, I showed how emotional conditioning underpins so much low self esteem. We looked at how dealing with someone's thoughts is trying to turn the cart instead of the horse. In this piece I'll show you how to undo the emotional conditioning holding low self esteem in place. Because emotional conditioning runs deep. That is to say that the brain structures that are involved in emotional learning are literally deeper in the brain than the thinking structures at the top in
The root cause for social anxiety is poor self image. Social anxity starts when we try to meet certain expectations of others, to get approval of others when doing things, looking at someone for acceptance. The self concept formed and...
This step-by-step guide gives instructions, explanations, and examples on how to stop your negative self-talk and be kinder to yourself.
This free focus on close reading resource helps you teach students about how to monitor for meaning as they read.rn
In this visual personality test, whether you see a lion, gorilla, a tree or fish - it will determine your hidden strengths and weaknesses.
How to do shadow work to own your dark side and heal your wounded self. Discover where your shadow comes from and learn the best practices to do shadow work >>
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The Fertile Void is a time to lean into change and the transition process. It makes the "in between" stage a time of growth and clarity.
Download this free and easy-to-use positive self-talk journal for kids (and adults!) who need a boost of confidence and positivity.
Healing shame and self-criticism with self-compassion, mindfulness meditation. Codependency and shame stem from blame, secrets, and dysfunctional childhood family.
(NOTE: I felt guided to write this because shame and the shadow side are a daily theme in my conversations with clients and with loved ones — as well as in my own inner dialogue. We often feel…
When you think of saying no do you feel anxious or guilty? If you're feeling uncomfortable you're not alone! Maybe you say yes to avoid a hassle but deep down, you feel resentful - like you don't really have a choice. So you keep saying yes, offering to help or pitch in whenever someone needs you. Y
One of the things I know for sure is that accepting yourself is critical on the path to personal and spiritual growth. Here is a collection of self-acceptance quotes and affirmations to inspire you.
In this article, we will start by exploring what toxic positivity is and how it differs from healthy positivity. Then we’ll look at the telltale signs of toxic positivity and some of the ways the ‘good vibes only’ trend can be bad for us and others. And finally, we will go through 5 tips for dealing
A crisis plan (sometimes called a safety plan) can sound intimidating, but think of it like a tool: a gameplan for navigating the worst days.
Ego death is an experience of embodying your True Nature completely or returning back to who you really are, temporarily is an enlightening experience.
Ahn Min Jeong writes: "My work appears to be emotionless and analytic, but when you take a close look at it, the majority of my work employs motifs from personal memories, people around me and things that I have." The autobiographic drawings of this South-Corean young illustrator aims at...
(taken from the article by Carolyn Kaufman) A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief that comes true because we are acting as if it is already true. New Agers call this The Law of Attraction (see, for example, Rhonda Byrne’s 2006 self-help book The Secret), but there’s really nothing mystical about it. Our expectation that we will see a particular […]
Although most people believe that they are self-aware, true self-awareness is a rare quality. In this piece, the author describes a recent large-scale investigation that shed light on some of the biggest roadblocks, myths, and truths about what self-awareness really is — and what it takes to cultivate it. Specifically, the study found that there are actually two distinct types of self-awareness, that experience and power can hinder self-awareness, and that introspection doesn’t always make you more self-aware. Understanding these key points can help leaders learn to see themselves more clearly.
1) “Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.” – Louis L’Amour 2) “Do every act of your life as though it were the last act of your life.” – Marcus Aurelius 3) “I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 4) “As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise, you will miss most of your life.” – Buddha 5) “When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole
