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7 Ways to Boost Your Self-Esteem

7 Ways to Boost Your Self-Esteem Self-esteem refers to how you view your worth. Whether you are aware or unaware of it, your evaluation or perception of yourself in terms of your capabilities, potentials, and emotional and physical features affects your lifestyle, academic or work performance, relationships, and other life concerns. Because of this, self-esteem plays a crucial role in helping you develop and maintain relationships, find success in school or work, and stay mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy. Since a healthy dose of self-esteem can do wonders for various aspects of your life, you need to know when and how to give it a boost, especially at times when you know it has taken a hit. Leading providers of professional clinical supervision services share some helpful tips below on how to improve your feelings of self-worth: 1.    Practice positive affirmation Everyone hears discouraging and unkind words from time to time. The popularity of social media has also made it easier for people to post whatever they want to say about others, even if these remarks are hurtful and harsh. If your self-confidence has taken a dip because you heard or read something upsetting, avoid letting these words take root…

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January 16, 2020
Articles / Emotions

Break the Cycle of Emotional Eating

I am an emotional eater.  I eat when I'm happy, I eat when I'm sad, I eat when I'm angry and I eat when I'm bored.  In case you're not quite catching what I'm saying, I eat.  Now eating is not a bad thing, heck, we need to do it to survive, but eating your emotions, that's not such a great thing.  But I'm putting a stop to all that.  I've tried things like Weight Watchers, Nutri System, Atkins and Keto.  They're all great in teaching me how to eat, but nothing has helped me come to grips with why I eat.  Now, with help, I'm going to stop allowing my mind to bully my body! If you're stuck in the same cycle I am, then I suggest you check out this amazing class offered by Karen Salmansohn,  that will help to retrain your brain. In it, you'll learn: why you binge eat - the emotional root of your food issues how to stop obsessive thoughts around food - in a lasting way how to stop using food as a distraction or to deal with uncomfortable feelings like anger, stress, fear, grief and self-loathing. how to enjoy a more loving…

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July 29, 2018
Articles / Emotions

Well Color Me A Bit Contemplative

CrossPosted from Well Color Me I was watching a lame movie today and in it, one of the characters said, "I'm a man, and men don't hurt the people they love." If you take it a step further, I'd say I'm an adult and adults don't hurt the people the love.  But they do, all the time.  Most of the time, it's not on purpose, but some times it is.  And it got me thinking why people do that.  Why do they say or do things that they know are going to hurt someone they care about It can be romantic relationship wise, sibling wise, or friend wise.  It doesn't matter what the relationship is, what matters is that it happened.  I know I've done it, and I usually immediately regret it.  But I've known some people who have said incredibly hurtful things to people and have never regretted it.  Your actions speak volumes as well, and if you don't walk your talk, what you say doesn't matter.  Think before you speak and think before you act. I'm going to try to be a better person and think before I speak and before I act.  More importantly I'm going to…

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July 28, 2018
Articles / Emotions / Happiness

Well Color Me….Worth It

originally posted from Well Color Me I have spent a lot of time (most of my life) thinking that I wasn't important. I didn't matter, and I wasn't worth anything. I didn't grow up on an abusive or neglectful household, I wasn't berated during my formative years. I don't know how it happened, but I always felt like I didn't matter, and I wasn't worth it. I've always felt alone. I have serious issues where I don't ever see why anybody would ever want to be my friend, and I always assume that people think the worst of me. Suffice to say my self-esteem is down around my ankles. It may even be under my feet and burrowing itself down into the ground. But lately, I've been doing some thinking. I'm not trying to figure out why I feel this way, but I'm trying to think of ways to NOT feel this way. I read lots of self-help stuff and they give me all sorts of different things to try, and they do, but they don't work. At least they don't work for me. I think it's because they're not my ideas. They're not organic to me. Here's the thing,…

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July 24, 2018
Articles / Choices / Daily Positive Thought / Emotions / manifesting

Sometimes, I Wonder Why

Sometimes, I wonder why.  No that would be a lie, I wonder why, all the time.  I wonder why about a lot of things.  Today I am wondering why about Think Positive 30.   Why am I doing this? That is a very good question.  I started out doing this for me, and for a dear, wonderful friend.  You can read the story in the about section, but the abridged version is we were whiny.  Our blogs were filled with negative crap, and she decided to post one positive thing a day.  Why?  Because all that negativity was bringing us down. I made a blog specifically for that, and Think Positive 30 was born.  From the blog (not this one) it morphed into a website thinkpositive30.com, and a mailing list.  I loved the mailing list.  But my web host kept flagging me for spam, even though people had to sign up for the email list.  I loved the email list beyond belief. It was a lot of work, but I loved it. But the flagging made me look for a different way to do it. I found the list I'm using now, Mail Chimp.  It's an amazing list, but it's…

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April 8, 2018
Daily Positive Thought / Emotions / Negativity / Positive Thoughts

Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.~ St. Francis of Assisi I was going to blog about this quote, because honestly, it's a great quote.  If you break the impossible down into smaller chunks and start with what you can do, you'll find that the impossible becomes possible. That's what I WAS going to blog about, but instead I'm going to talk about life.  Life and how it seems so incredibly overwhelming and how incredibly difficult it can be to remain positive when you're faced with the everyday frustrations that seem to crop up with annoying regularity. I'm going through such a period right now, and if I'm not going to talk the talk and walk the walk, how can I, in good conscience, expect others to do it?  I actually posted on my personal twitter acount that i was jumping off the positivity train and and climbing on the life sucks bus.  This is NOT the attitude of a positive person by any stretch of the imagination.  I'd like to say it was a momentary aberration, but the mood has persisted for a couple of days. This is where the opportunity…

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March 27, 2013
Emotions / Happiness

Feel Good Music

We all have things that put us in a good mood.  For me, that thing is music.  If I'm down in the dumps or just having a not so great day, I'll pull out the Ipod crank it up and go to town.  The feel good playlist is long and includes songs like I Feel Lucky by Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves.  The newest addition to the list is Keep Your Head Up by Andy Grammer and I have to say it's the ULTIMATE feel good song for me.  What are some of YOUR feel good songs?  Share them in the comments section KEEP YOUR HEAD UP wooh, ehhhh, wooooh. I've been waiting on the sunset Bills on my mindset I can't deny theyre getting high Higher than my income In comes breadcrumbs I've been trying to survive The glow that the sun gives Right around sunset Helps me realize This is just a journey Drop your worries You are gonna turn out fine. Oh, you'll turn out fine. Fine, oh, you'll turn out fine. But you gotta keep your head up, oh, And you can let your hair down, eh. you gotta…

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May 16, 2012
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Why Your AHA Moments Don’t Stick – Chris Cade

by Chris Cade You've most certainly seen this in your life, and possible the lives of those you know about. It's happened to me. The story starts out the same. You have one of those "amazingly super-duper spiritually enlightening aha moment experiences." You may have walked around for a few hours or even days without an ego... It was mind-blowing to feel empty and spacious yet full... For a night, it was inspiring to have the courage of a lion... And for a moment, your consciousness expanded exponentially when you saw the entire Universe in a grain of sand. But then something else happened. It wore off. The realization didn't stick, and you realize something more immediate: you're "just" you. Whoever you were before that incredible experience has returned to the present moment.   You hoped that the experience would transform your life forever. You hoped that if you had enough of those experiences, if you sought and found them, if you cherished them, they'd add up to enough realizations that you'd get to keep them all forever. The thing is, transformation doesn't work that way. Realization is one thing. It's the starting point. Realizations like those open us up…

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May 8, 2012
Articles / Choices / Emotions / Positive Thoughts

She Gave Me the Finger, I Gave Her My Heart – Chris Cade

Though that may sound like like the name of a really bad country song, I assure you I haven't switched vocations to become a musician. :) See, the other day I was taking my son to preschool and I had an "interaction" with a driver. There is a highway interchange that was designed very poorly and has great potential for accidents. All the people in the left lane have to get over to the right lane (which turns very quickly), and all the people coming from the right lane (which is a curve) have to get over into the left lane. To compound the issue, those going from right to left have a metering light that brings traffic to a stop. During rush hour, it's a dangerous intersection. I was in the left lane, another woman in the right. I kindly slowed so that she'd be able to get into the lane in front of me. Then I'd be able to switch to the right. Unfortunately, she decided to also slow at the same time. We both came to an almost complete stop in the middle of traffic because within the 1 second we saw each other, we couldn't agree on…

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May 6, 2012
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Stop Feeling the Way You Know You Shouldn’t – Chris Cade

A while back I shared with you my thoughts about "The LIE About Positive Thinking."  Today, I'd like to expand on that topic in a different way. Specifically, the question is: Is it okay to have our thoughts? On the surface, it seems obvious. Of course it's fine to have our thoughts! But what if they're judgmental? Or so anti-Law Of Attraction that they're negative or hurtful? Shameful? Is it okay to have those thoughts too? I recall years ago that whenever I wanted to feel a specific kind of emotion, I'd change my music to something that mirrored what I wanted. If I wanted to feel energized, I put on Dream Theater, Van Halen, Metallica, or Robert Miles. If I wanted to feel mellow, I put on some Diana Krall, Enigma, or Enya. For whatever mood I wanted, I put in the music that would take me there. It wasn't until I ventured further down my spiritual path that I realized how detrimental that was to myself. I thought I was doing myself a favor by "picking myself up" naturally. Sort of like when you have a bad day, and a friend comes over and says, "Hey, let's go…

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May 3, 2012