Low Self-Esteem

Do you constantly second-guess yourself, have a very loud inner critic, or feel like you’re not as good as everyone else?

Low self-esteem is the result of living by the persistent belief, “I’m not enough.” Not smart enough. Not pretty enough. Not successful enough. Whatever it is ~ you just never feel enough.

And when this becomes your dominant belief about yourself, your psyche will develop coping mechanisms to manage this pervasive sense of “not enough-ness.”

How Low Self-Esteem Can Affect Your Life

Low self-esteem can take many psychological and emotional forms, including but not limited to:

• Anxiety: driven to overperform, people-please, or obsess over what others think ~ because deep down, you worry you’re not okay as you are
• Depression: you feel like nothing you do matters or like you’re a burden to others
• Eating disorders: trying to feel more in control or acceptable in others’ eyes, cope with shame or unresolved trauma that created the low self-esteem
• Relationship problems: settling for breadcrumbs, believing you don’t deserve healthy love, avoiding setting boundaries, feel terrified of being rejected

How Therapy Can Help

Low self-esteem is a learned way of thinking, feeling, and relating to yourself. Thankfully, this also means you can un-learn these ways, and develop new beliefs about yourself that are loving, supportive, and empowering. This healing starts with understanding where your “not enough” beliefs came from, and then gently healing those early life wounds so that the beliefs can be rewritten.

At A New Beginning, our compassionate and highly skilled clinicians can help you:

• Resolve painful past experiences that may have led to you developing low self-esteem
• Cultivate a more compassionate inner voice that helps you feel good about yourself today
• Strengthen your sense of identity, boundaries, and self-trust
• Reconnect with your inherent worth, so that you no longer put your self-esteem in things like achievements, appearance, or others’ opinions of you

You CAN become a person who feels really good about yourself. And we can help you get there. If you’d like to learn more, please contact our friendly Client Care Coordinator, Lauren, at (480) 941-4247 or contact@anewbeginning.com.