Self-esteem

To Lose Weight and Improve your Self-Esteem, Research Shows the HAES Approach Is a Winner!

Are you dreading the thought of summer and displaying any part of your body at the beach? Did the New Year’s diet resolutions not quite work out as hoped? How about trying something completely different this spring and forgetting about dieting altogether? Welcome to the Health at Every Size (HAES) approach. The HAES approach is not another diet. It’s... (read more)

VIDEO: How Mindfulness Meditation Allows You to Embrace Yourself

In her interview with PsychAlive Senior Editor Lisa Firestone, Dr. Donna Rockwell talks about how mindfulness meditation allows you to embrace yourself more authentically and tenderly. You know, when you sit there – I meditated, I don’t know, for 15 years before I could really have this have this sort of breakthrough, which is all of that thinking... (read more)

4 Steps to Conquer Your Inner Critic

Most of us are familiar with those nagging thoughts that tell us we are not good enough, that cast doubt on our goals and undermine our accomplishments. These thoughts might be there to greet us when we first glimpse at ourselves in the mirror in the morning. “You’re so unattractive. You’re fat. What a slob. Just look at your hair,... (read more)

A Plea To A Woman’s Intuition….Or, Yes, You Do Look Strange.

Ladies, please stop altering your faces! It does look strange; I say this in answer to that silent nudging question you ask yourselves when you look in the mirror immediately after the Botox/filler appointment, and during the days and weeks and months afterward when you are trying to adjust to the “improved” you. I repeat: It does look strange. ... (read more)

Mindfulness – Challenging the Negative Self-Image

Watch and read our exclusive interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn. A lot of us are caught in the story of ourselves. And that story is often, as you’re saying, very, very negative. And, uh, we don’t have to fix that. All we need to do is acknowledge it, recognize it and then ask ourselves the question, “Is my awareness of my generating this great... (read more)

5 Achievable Resolutions for a Longer, Happier Life

Resolutions are notorious for falling by the wayside a few months or even days into the New Year. A 2012 University of Scranton study revealed that only 8 percent of people who make New Year’s resolutions are successful in achieving them. This low success rate may relate to the fact that many of us are more inclined to center our resolutions... (read more)

Five Questions for a Better New Year

New Year’s tends to be a time of looking forward. Yet, in our effort to set goals for the future, it’s meaningful to reflect on the past year and make sense of what our experiences have meant to us. What can they teach us? How can the lessons of 2012 help us to achieve a more fulfilling 2013? The following are five essential questions... (read more)

Self-Esteem vs. Narcissism

As a culture, we are highly concerned with self-esteem. And this is a good thing. How we feel about ourselves determines how we treat those around us and vice versa. In 1890, William James identified self-esteem as a fundamental human need, no less essential for survival than emotions such as anger and fear. And yet, we often fail to measure the many... (read more)