How Do You Recover From a Blow to Your Self-Esteem?
"When our self-esteem takes a blow, it can affect everything in our lives, including how we feel about ourselves, our jobs, our physical appearance, and our mental abilities. It can even affect how we feel about where we live and what we do for pleasure.
How to combat negativity
- Do something fun with someone you enjoy being with. Just interacting with that person will boost your self-esteem, simply because you will know that you are both having a good time.
- Do some act of kindness for someone else. They don’t have to thank you. They don’t even have to know it was you. But this kind of silent engagement can boost your self-esteem simply because you know you did it. (And yes, even if you did it with the express purpose of feeling better about yourself.)
- Take a walk or a bike ride somewhere that you’ll see other people, and smile or nod or say “hi” to someone along the way. Simply relating to others can boost your self-esteem.
- Sign up for a class or other kind of activity. Interestingly, the anticipation of engaging with others and of learning something new can improve self-esteem.
- Listen to someone else. Getting out of your own head and psyche by genuinely listening to and thinking about someone else can greatly improve how you feel about yourself.
The main thing to keep in mind is that self-esteem is interactive. It can be hard to raise your self-esteem on your own; but changing who you are interacting with, spending time with other people who you like being with and who are enjoying being with you, can make you feel better about yourself."
Read the complete article available at Psychology Today!
Reflection:
What helps you to build up your self-esteem?
#Self-esteem #Relationships #Self-care
Thank you for sharing this great article with us here. It was a great read and to learn about the subject.
@Asher You're most welcome!
