Confidence and Self-Esteem

Erika Slater headshot photo 300x300These articles focus on helping to improve confidence and self-esteem. Low self-esteem seems rampant in our society today and impacts our ability to fulfill our dreams and aspirations. It creates a barrier between where we are today and how to get to where we want to be in our visualized future.

Included is a 14-part series of articles covering stubborn issues around us achieving confidence in who we are and how we contribute to our own and others well-being. We seek ways to feel confident in our relationships with others and taming our need to be accepted and meeting their expectations.

The selection of materials cover overcoming insecurity, body language, self-image, self-compassion, overthinking, boundaries and worrying about what others think of us.

Enjoy the articles.

A Dire Warning about Comparing Yourself to Others

By Erika Slater
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Do you ever find yourself looking at others in either a physical or emotional sense comparing yourself to them? Do you look at what you’ve accomplished and what you own and measure your success by peering into the world of others and seeing what they have and have accomplished? When you do this, do you get down on yourself believing you are “less than others” and feel so discouraged that it makes you feel depressed? If so, you are not running your own race in life, rather you’re skipping to the beat of others; only “they” don’t even know they have created this rhythm for your life! Why do people feel the need to compare themselves to others? Here we take a look at this common barrier to improvement and how to manage it.

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How to Cope with Any Situation

By Erika Slater
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Are there times in your life that get real trying for you where you wonder, “How the heck am I going to get through this?” Do you find that as stress builds and builds in your life that you have difficulty coping with any and all situations, even the small ones? Well, it’s time to learn to stop sweating the small stuff so to speak! There will be times in your life when you feel that the proverbial wheels are falling off. Ironically, when it rains it pours in terms of stress. You literally become a stress magnet when bad or not so great things start to happen and they seem to become compounded. You take or allow any small situation that is quasi-distressing and allow it to gain momentum to the point that it appears to be the end of the world. Why does this happen?

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Not Being a Hostage to the Past

By Erika Slater
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Are you a person who constantly lives in the past? Do you constantly have fleeting or direct thoughts on how great it would be to go back in time and relive a moment and change it so it turns out differently? Perhaps the movie Back To The Future is your favorite and you wish you could find a Delorian and get yourself a flux capacitor to take you back to that moment that you regret in order for you to recreate it! Guess what folks? That isn’t happening anytime soon…well anytime ever! It’s time to get over the past and live in the present. Here’s more…

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Dealing with Your Ego So It Doesn’t Become a Self-Esteem Issue

By Erika Slater
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Are you one of those people who have hard time with letting your “ego” get in the way? Are you driven by the need to not only feel like you are always right, but “Are right all of the time!”? If this sounds like you in any way, then perhaps this article is for you. That is if you are not willing to let your ego get in the way of learning how to “not let your ego” get in the way! Egos are an interesting part of our personalities. Ego is often misquoted in the context of which it was intended to mean according to the great father of Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. Here’s more…

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How to Use Hypnosis to Overcome Shyness

By Peter Sacco
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Are you the type of person who is so shy that you have difficulty talking to people, let alone approaching someone and making contact with them? Do you find that when someone is talking to you, you kind of feel nervous, even jittery? What’s that all about? Well, if you are like many other people, you possess an issue with shyness. And it’s not a mental illness, or a bad thing per se, but it can get in the way of being successful and being happy. Where does shyness come from? Is it learned or are people born being shy? The answer is simple…

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