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Shop Courageously: Learning to Trust Your Judgement
Find your strengths and feel worthy of that next big purchase.We were deciding where to hang some paintings."Over the sofa," I suggested. "Oh, but then we'd have to hammer nails in…
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
What Did You Talk Yourself Out of Today?
I recently sampled not one but two of the richest, thickest, sweetest, most stratospherically satiny ice creams I've ever tasted.One of these was High Road Craft Ice Cream, made by…
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
Do You Make Yourself Difficult to Love?
When someone says they love you, is your first impulse to argue that they can't?One night when I was 21, a man with curly copper-penny hair told me: I love you.Under the streetligh…
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
When Yes Means No and No Means Yes
I once met a woman who had traveled the world. She had learned to speak Zulu in South Africa. She had slept in hammocks beside the Black Sea. Her eyes were kind and tolerant. Even …Tags:
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Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
Are You Playing Dead?
Reviewing 2013, I thought: This was the year in which I wrote a book and visited Italy. But this was also the year in which I didn't get my blood pressure checked, take up square-d…Tags:
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Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
How to Embrace New Year's Resolutions When You Don't Believe in Yourself
Self-loathing can turn this annual self-help ritual into a slippery slope. New Year's resolutions are wonderful in principle. What spurs self-improvement better than specific, sta…
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
6 Gifts that People With Low Self-Esteem Should Give Themselves
Anneli Rufus is a frequent contributor to Spirituality & Health. Her books Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto and the Nautilus Award-winning Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On examined our lives as individuals in a crowded world. Rufus’ upcoming work, Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself, will be released by Tarcher Penguin in the spring and continues this path, addressing self-esteem. It serves as the catalyst for this blog and asks: Why do we feel the way we do about ourselves? - See more posts here.
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
10 Telltale Signs of Low Self-Esteem
Anneli Rufus is a frequent contributor to Spirituality & Health. Her books Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto and the Nautilus Award-winning Stuck: Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On examined our lives as individuals in a crowded world. Rufus’ upcoming work, Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself, will be released by Tarcher Penguin in the spring and continues this path, addressing self-esteem. It serves as the catalyst for this blog and asks: Why do we feel the way we do about ourselves?
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
Sometimes "Sorry" Means Something Else
Having agreed to meet a friend for lunch, I waved while entering the restaurant.“Sorry I’m late,” I said.She looked up at the clock.“You’re not.”“You look great,” I said. “Sorry I…Tags:
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