Don’t Try to Build Self-Esteem. Do These 6 Things Instead.

Make sure your opinion of yourself is your own.

Karen Nimmo
On The Couch
Published in
5 min readMar 20
Image by Pexels from Pixabay

A young woman told me firmly she had low self-esteem.

She said it as though it was a body part — essential to her being, like lungs or a heart.

When I asked her how she knew this she told me a boy she lived with in foster care, who was…

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Karen Nimmo
On The Couch

Clinical psychologist, author of 4 books. Editor of On the Couch: Practical psychology for everyday life. karen@onthecouch.co.nz