Enhance Self-Esteem

To esteem something means to have a high opinion of it. Self-esteem is how one feel about one-self. It is the general judgment of the self. It is how much I like myself. Self-esteem is an individual’s assessment of self-worth and global feelings of competence and self-acceptance (Rosenberg, 1965). Self-esteem is the positive or negative way in which one evaluates one’s values, feelings, attitudes, and beliefs, fears and desires, and strengths and weaknesses (Berger, 2000).

People with self-esteem:

Hold themselves as worthy

• to be loved and to love others,
• to be cared for and to care for others,
• to be nurtured and to nurture others,
• to be touched and supported and to touch and support others,
• to be listened to and to listen to others,
• to be recognized and to recognize others,
• to be encouraged and to encourage others,
• to be reinforced as “good” people and to recognize others as “good” people.