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Feb 2025
24m 4s

How to Build Self-Esteem

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel
About this episode

A leader suddenly hears how harshly she speaks to herself. Wanting help, she turns to her coach who gives her tools to build a practice of self-esteem.     


The three self-esteem practices are:

  • Self-Acceptance: Practice being FOR yourself
  • Self-Worth & Happiness: Practice saying, “I am worthy of being happy”
  • Live in Reality: Practice acknowledging what is and what is not.


Download our free Feeling Words Grid.


The Tools bin with other free resources is here.


Four ways to help you live in reality:

  • Respect facts
  • Respect facts about yourself
  • Interpretations are not facts
  • Feelings are not facts


Nathaniel Branden’s “The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem” is still a definitive work. Check out the 31-week sentence completion exercise in the back.


Related categories in the library:

Managing Yourself  

Perception – How You Perceive Yourself

Self-Talk


Five related episodes:

241 - Conquering People Pleasing

209 - How to Build Self-Awareness

224 - How to Disarm a Trigger

242 - Mastering Nerves

231 - Staying Afloat in a Shitstorm


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