Esteem Repair and Development

The residue of emotional injury and trauma can be addressed in a variety of ways. Counseling and therapy is one approach. A clinician who understands emotional violence and who can work effectively with you, is invaluable.

Life coaching is another approach. This strategy can provide very practical, in-the-trenches support.

In Life Coaching for Esteem Repair and Development you'll: Repair your self-worth and rehab your self-image. Learn the practice of committed self-care. Learn construction and maintenance of healthier boundaries. Learn stabilization techniques for our topsy-turvy world. Learn how to deal with addictions including perennial lateness, over-spending, hoarding, workaholism, numbing, isolating and more. Learn techniques to travel from fury to forgiveness. Learn how to build up your emotional immune system. Discover how to make joy your default setting.

As a baby, we arrive at the door of our family home and the system operating within. When we're brand-new, we are unscripted. We're conscious only of our comfort or discomfort. The family in which we find ourselves is not only our world, it's the mold into which our developing personality is poured. Whatever our family system is like—our psyche, our spirit, our inner core—shapes itself to be able to maneuver within the environment which is our world.

If our family system is dysfunctional, we develop strategies and techniques that enable us to function within that dysfunction. The buoyancy of the spirit is remarkable and we usually survive even the worst of scenarios. But what began as successful survival techniques may continue on with less effective results.

If we arrive at adulthood hobbled by ineffective strategies, a crippled inner core and unhealthy boundaries, life seems difficult and devoid of joy.

But all is not lost. Repair is possible and joy happens.

A new perspective on "Self-Esteem"

"Self-esteem" is the most commonly used buzz word used in our vocabulary today to talk about our psyche, or inner core. I prefer another term (self-estimation), because I feel the accepted buzz word only scratches the surface of what we need to know about that aspect of our self.

Our psyche and its state of wellness is made up of many more components than simply, "how we feel about ourselves." Within our core, lies how we understand ourselves and the world around us, how we feel emotionally, moment to moment—and how we interact with the world around us.