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Self-esteem, Confidence and Assertiveness – The ‘Whole-Brain and Holistic’ approach

September 6, 2013 By maxineharley

“I feel rubbish about myself, what’s the point even trying to get a job or a girlfriend?

“ Whenever I’m around two or more people I just ‘change’ somehow, and become all dithery and nervous. I’m really self-conscious and I keep imaging they don’t like me and think I don’t deserve to be there. I can’t talk properly and every time I open my mouth and try to say something it comes out all wrong, and I want the ground to open up and swallow me. I feel so stupid and ashamed.”

“It’s as if everyone else has a sat-nav to get them through life, and I can’t even read the street sign-posts as I stumble around and so I just keep getting lost. I’m such an idiot and everyone can see that.”

Such feelings of ‘low self-esteem’ or weak self-concept, or inadequate social skills and social anxiety are common, people just [Read more…] about Self-esteem, Confidence and Assertiveness – The ‘Whole-Brain and Holistic’ approach

Filed Under: General News Tagged With: assertive, assertiveness, body image, confidence, negative thoughts, quantum psyche process, self-concept, Self-esteem, The ripple effect process, Whole-brain and holistic

SHAME ON US ALL!

March 3, 2013 By maxineharley 15 Comments

I’ve just been writing my blog (www.maxineharley.com) about my own recent experience of shame – and the memory of my former pride – about my body (following public exposure in a communal changing area); and it got me thinking about shame and how powerfully it effects us all. Shame is the ever-present threat that lurks around just waiting for an opportunity to render us a failure, defective, useless, disgusting or worthless. It has the power to [Read more…] about SHAME ON US ALL!

Filed Under: General News Tagged With: assertive, assertiveness, communication, confidence, self-concept, Self-esteem, shame, worthiness

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