September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
There’s a strong correlation between resilience and self-esteem. If you like yourself, you’ll cope better with adversity than if you don’t. So everything that you can do to build your self-esteem now will make you more resilient when trouble strikes.
Self-esteem is about how much worth you believe you have as a person. It’s not the same thing as confidence – which is more to do with the skills and abilities you feel you have. This is about the big stuff, about whether you believe you have intrinsic value.
If your self-esteem is low, you will focus on those qualities in yourself that you believe are negative: ‘I’m a rubbish friend’, ‘I’m always getting things wrong’, ‘I’m stupid, boring, useless … ’ If you tell yourself, ...