Enhancing Your Self-Esteem - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information

Gabe · 04-04-2005, 04:38 PM

"The path to inner personal freedom and true self-worth involves being willing to become aware of how you make pain for yourself. Ask yourself: "What kinds of things am I saying to myself about me?" This includes the thoughts in your head as well as what you say about yourself to others. Negative past experiences and teachings may have influenced you to feel unlovable and/or inadequate. These feelings can further influence you to act accordingly. Negative self-statements limit the options you give yourself. They imprison you. Watch out for words like should, must, ought and have to. Change these words to wish, prefer, want and choose. Change every 'can't' to a 'won't' or 'choose not to' (except for those that come from a reality-based disability). You can choose to reprogram the negative and inaccurate parts of your self-image."
~Dorothy Briggs
"Celebrate Yourself"

**Ann** · 04-04-2005, 04:56 PM

Good thought, Gabe. I am the first one to see the good in others, and offer genuine compliments, and often the last to see the good in myself. I'm working on that, and filling myself with positive thoughts to displace the negative ones, is a good start.

Hugs
Ann

**51anna** · 04-05-2005, 06:01 AM

Thanks Gabe,

That's a good reminder to not slip into those negative patterns, which is always a battle for me.

Love, Anna

04-04-2005, 04:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
Gabe Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,959	Enhancing Your Self-Esteem "The path to inner personal freedom and true self-worth involves being willing to become aware of how you make pain for yourself. Ask yourself: "What kinds of things am I saying to myself about me?" This includes the thoughts in your head as well as what you say about yourself to others. Negative past experiences and teachings may have influenced you to feel unlovable and/or inadequate. These feelings can further influence you to act accordingly. Negative self-statements limit the options you give yourself. They imprison you. Watch out for words like should, must, ought and have to. Change these words to wish, prefer, want and choose. Change every 'can't' to a 'won't' or 'choose not to' (except for those that come from a reality-based disability). You can choose to reprogram the negative and inaccurate parts of your self-image." ~Dorothy Briggs "Celebrate Yourself"

04-04-2005, 04:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ann Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 15,164	Good thought, Gabe. I am the first one to see the good in others, and offer genuine compliments, and often the last to see the good in myself. I'm working on that, and filling myself with positive thoughts to displace the negative ones, is a good start. Hugs Ann __________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~ Last edited by Ann; 04-05-2005 at 04:40 AM.

04-05-2005, 06:01 AM	#3 (permalink)
51anna Forum Leader Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dancing in the Light Posts: 11,165	Thanks Gabe, That's a good reminder to not slip into those negative patterns, which is always a battle for me. Love, Anna __________________ Anna "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

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