Self-Esteem Articles

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• My 3-Year-Old Son Wants To Be Cinderella!
  Our playgroup of preschoolers recently attended a production of “Cinderella.” All the children were enamored with the costumes, music and beauty of ...
• Raising Assertive Kids
  Assertiveness isn’t necessarily innate. While it might come naturally to some people, it’s largely a skill -- and an important one at ...
• How To Raise a Child of Character
  How many of you think there are many children that struggle with communicating their needs, thoughts and feelings with ...
• 5 Tips to Increase Your Assertiveness
  “Assertiveness is all about being present in a relationship,” according to Randy Paterson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author ...
• The Gentle Self: How to Overcome Your Difficulties with Depression, Anxiety, Shyness, and Low Self-Esteem
  I think everyone’s a little narcissistic.  We all have moments when we wish everyone would be more like us—when we get upset that no one seems to care about what we are feeling.  We also ...
• What Really Strengthens Self-Esteem
  Self-esteem gets a bad rap. Some view self-esteem as arrogance, narcissism or selfishness. It’s anything but. Individuals with healthy self-esteem are humble ...
• Does Facebook Help Students Adapt to College?
  Recent psychological research suggests that social networking can help university students feel supported in their first few weeks at school. Investigating the possibility, ...
• The Lonely Screams: Understanding the Complex World of the Lonely
  Loneliness is certainly a common human experience; even if you’ve been lucky enough to feel it only briefly, or rarely, you know the misery of it, the actual physical pain of it. Arising from a ...
• Courage and Limits with Your Teen
  This column uses a story based on a real-life situation in therapy to represent both the teen and parent viewpoints on ...
• Find the Upside of the Down Times
  Some people have all the bad luck, and by any measure Rob Pennington, author of Find the Upside of the Down Times, has had more than his fair share. He was shot in the chest, ...
• Transform Your Life Now
  If you Google the phrase "transform your life," you get results showing you how to do just that in 5 easy ways, in less than 30 minutes, with 10 technologies, by 10 truths, or in ...
• Fat People
  For his book Fat People, Bill Schubart has created and gathered a collection of stories that will make you rethink your relationship with food. Schubart is smart, sensitive and unnervingly keen at noticing details.  The ...
• Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession and Shame
  George N. Collins, MA, and his co-writer Andrew Adleman, MA, in Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession and Shame provide a guide away from the cyclic, reactive, addictive, superficial and thus ...
• Saying No (Kindly) And Then Letting Go
  Is it challenging for you to say no without feeling bad, anxious, and uncomfortable? If so, you may be ...
• 10 Ways Loving a Dog Can Teach Us to Love Our Bodies
  Worried parents often come to my psychotherapy office, wondering how to teach their children to have ...
• Emotionally Focused Therapy: Bolstering Couples’ Emotional Bonds
  Western culture views independence as a virtue. We’ve been taught that a truly strong person doesn’t need anybody to survive ...
• What To Do About Attention-Seeking Kids
  The preschooler I observed in the grocery store yesterday was doing everything she could to get her mom’s attention. She whined. ...
• October is Domestic Violence Month
  Domestic violence remains a huge and largely hidden problem. The purple ribbons you may have seen recently on car bumpers and people’s ...
• The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
  A shaky self-confidence or relentless self-doubt stops many people from pursuing their passions. A fear of failure gnaws at them, leaving them at a standstill and unsatisfied with their lives. If you know what I’m ...
• The Essential Guide to Overcoming Obsessive Love
  Have you ever found yourself calling your partner repeatedly even though they have asked you to stop?  Does your partner sulk, pout and pick a fight whenever you want to meet up with friends for ...
• 5 Ideas for Boosting Your Energy When Depression Strikes
  Depression is as much a somatic (physical) disorder as it is a psychological one. Energy loss is a ...
• Right Here with You
  What do religious books about relationships usually say? “Give it time; God has someone for everyone.”  Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships is different.  It’s a Buddhist—rather than Christian—book.  In it, ...
• What it Means To Be in Love
  Such a broad and abstract topic as love, not surprisingly, is hard to define. And, of course, many writers, artists, ...
• Learning from Resilient Kids
  In 1955, researchers Emmy Werner (University of California, Davis) and Ruth Smith (licensed psychologist, Kauai) began a longitudinal study that followed all of ...
• A Counselor’s Clients Can Make the Best Teachers
  From a reasonably young age, I knew exactly what I wanted to be -- a professional helper. I ...