self-esteem

Are you finding it hard to get ahead because you hold yourself back?
Are you afraid to speak up or be more social because you worry about looking foolish?
Do you know that you deserve of a happy life?

Low self-esteem can make life miserable. How many times have you watched love, money, or even happiness just go by because you didn't think you were good enough? If you want to feel better about yourself and how you deal with life's ups and downs, hypnotherapy could be for you.

Our self-esteem develops and evolves throughout our lives as we build an image of ourselves through our experiences with different people and activities. Experiences during our childhood play a particularly large role in the shaping of our basic self-esteem. When we were growing up, our successes (and failures) and how we were treated by the members of our immediate family, by our teachers, coaches, religious authorities, and by our peers, all contributed to the creation of our basic self-esteem.

Our past experiences, even the things we don't usually think about, are all alive and active in our daily life in the form of an inner voice. For people with healthy self-esteem, the messages of the inner voice are positive and reassuring. For people with low self-esteem, the inner voice becomes a harsh inner critic, constantly criticizing, punishing, and belittling their accomplishments.

Low self-esteem can have devastating consequences.

It can create anxiety, stress, loneliness and increased likelihood for depression.
It can cause problems with friendships and relationships.
It can seriously impair academic and job performance.
It can lead to underachievement and increased vulnerability to drug and alcohol abuse.

Worst of all, these negative consequences themselves reinforce the negative self-image and can take a person into a downward spiral of lower and lower self-esteem and increasingly non-productive or even actively self-destructive behavior.

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