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11-04-2009, 02:31 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: UK
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| Wow!! I've got self-esteem  OMG, where did this spring from?As I was finishing my last post, I started to feel I'm okay - I'm really, truly okay, I've got there at long last. I have no reason to feel guilty or not good enough or "less than" other people any more. I am a good person; I was / am a good daughter; I am a good sister; I am a good wife and I am an excellent mother. I have finally found it in me to validate myself and it feels true, not a front, not arrogance, just the quiet truth - inside. I am a good person in my own right who is worthy and deserving of a parent's love, pride and admiration. I did not deserve my childhood or early adulthood, I did / do not deserve my parent's expectations or negative judgemental attitudes. It is my Mum's loss that she is cannot recognise the good person I am and what I have achieved so far in my life. I no longer need her love or validation (which I never had) to feel good about myself. See me, I'm okay. Thak you SR  |
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11-04-2009, 03:05 PM
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That's wonderful! I know from my own experience how great it can feel to have such a break-through. 
__________________   Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. ~ Lionel Hampton |
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11-05-2009, 05:22 PM
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| That's a fantastic epiphany, IWTH. This shows that we really can work past the roadblocks from our childhoods... that we're not condemned to be stuck in those old mistakes. It's such a shift between frames of mind that you could not even fathom what where you are now would feel like using your frame of mind from back then |
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11-05-2009, 05:36 PM
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That's great!  |
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11-06-2009, 06:09 PM
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Good for you! I'm very happy for you!
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11-06-2009, 09:13 PM
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I'm happy for you too. I have those moments; they're great. Other times I'm wondering if I have any self esteem at all, and if so where it's gotten off to. I think it wanders off sometimes. |
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