Strong Self-Esteem
- Description
- Curriculum
- FAQ
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Self-Esteem is our CompassSelf-esteem is our compass for appropriate behavior.
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Impacts of Self-Esteem
Impacts of self-esteem level to our lives.
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Self-Esteem and Love
Influences of self-esteem on love choices.
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Self-Esteem and Work
What self-esteem level looks like at work.
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Self-Esteem and Fun
Low self-esteem means less ability to have fun.
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Happiness Anxiety
Self-esteem influences ability to be happy.
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Our self-esteem influences what we expect, and therefore what we receive.
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Too Much Self-Esteem?
It's not possible to have too much self-esteem.
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Self-Esteem Meaning, Dr. Branden Strategy
Meaning of self-esteem and Dr. Branden's strategy for strengthing it.
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Self-Confidence
The relationship of self-esteem with self-confidence.
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Self-Respect
Self-respect is part of self-esteem.
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Self-Confidence and Self-Respect
Lesson discusses the relationships of self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-respect.
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Characteristics of High Self-Esteem
What strong self-esteem looks like.
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Living Consciously
What it means to live consciously and how that relates to self-esteem.
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Responsible Toward Reality
Living consciously entails living with a responsibility toward reality.
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Living Consciously Characteristics
Presents a long list of what it means to live consciously.
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Addiction
Discusses how addiction is exactly the opposite of living consciously.
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Self-Acceptance
Discusses the importance of self-acceptance to self-esteem development.
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3 Levels, Level 1 Self-Acceptance
Dr. Branden presents self-acceptance at 3 levels. Introduces the idea and explores level 1.
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Level 2 Self-Acceptance
The second level of self-acceptance, a level deeper than Level 1.
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Level 3 Self-Acceptance
Presents and discusses Level 3 of self-acceptance.
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Feelings
Self-acceptance and emotions.
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When Self-Acceptance Feels Impossible
Some things inside of us are very big, and feel impossible to accept. What to do with these.
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Accepting ALL of Life's Experiences
If we pretend something didn't happen, we harm our self-esteem.
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Owning Your Assets
Self-acceptance demands that you not belittle your strengths to make others feel more comfortable.
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Self-Responsibility
The importance of self-responsibility to self-esteem.
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My Responsibility
What are the elements of my life that are my own responsibility to manage?
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Productivity
Having productivity in your life is an important element of self-responsibility.
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Thinking for Oneself
For full self-responsibility, you must generate your own views.
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Morality & Exploitation
Self-responsibility involves not taking advantage of other people, and not allowing others to take advantage of you.
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No One is Coming
No one is coming to save you from yourself.
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Self-Assertiveness
Self-assertiveness is an important feature of self-esteem.
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What Self-Assertiveness Is and Isn't
What self-assertiveness looks like in real life.
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Self-Assertiveness and Culture
Appropriate expressions of self-assertiveness vary across cultures.
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Courage
Self-assertiveness calls on your courage.
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Self-Esteem Betrayals (Self-Assertiveness Absence)
Lack of self-assertiveness at key moments betrays the self-esteem.
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Living Purposefully
What it means to live purposefully.
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Productivity (Living Purposefully)
Importance of productivity to living purposefully.
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Competence
Role of competence to living purposefully.
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Self-Discipline
Self-discipline is critical to purposeful living.
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Living Purposefully Entails
Guidelines on living purposefully.
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Living with Integrity
What it means to live with integrity.
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Congruence
For integrity, one's words and actions must be congruent.
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Betraying Your Standards
Betraying our standards is a betrayal of our integrity.
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"Only I Will Know"
When we betray our standards and believe it's okay because we are the only ones who know, this says other people's opinions of us are the only ones that matter. This betrays self-esteem.
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Guilt
When it's appropriate to feel guilty about life's occurrences and when not.
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Resolving Guilt
Sometimes we are guilty and need to resolve it. Here's how.
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Irrational Values
Some values we've been taught to live by are irrational for our own lives.
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Integrity Challenges
Society poses its share of challenges to living our lives with personal integrity.
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Follow Your Bliss
Living with integrity is to live with consciousness of others' life experiences and to follow your bliss.
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Integrity in Corruption
How to maintain integrity in a corrupt environment?
Doing the exercises is where the real magic happens because that's where you tap into your own personal subconscious and surface your personal challenges. The exercises is where the healing happens.
Come back to the exercises periodically over time. Do a few rounds of the exercises, whichever speak to you, every couple of years or so. You will see your self-esteem strengthen more each time you do a round of exercises.
Others in your life will notice your strengthening self-esteem--and won't like it. You're not the same pushover you used to be. You're not so easily manipulated like before. You stand up for yourself now in new ways and you don't take grief from people like you used to. People who are used to treating you poorly will not like your new self-esteem strength and yes, some will challenge you in new ways. But you have the strength to handle it in new ways now, too. So don't worry about it.
Not all old relationships will be able to handle the new you. When you grow, you leave people behind who do not want to grow along with you. This is part of the process of growing into new levels of health.
As you'll learn in the course, we select all of our relationships based on our self-esteem level. So, it makes sense that when your self-esteem level changes, your choices for whom you will have in your life also change.
