Abstract
During the twenty two years I have run my counselling and psychotherapy practice and conducted regular training sessions on emotional competency development, the most predominant issue I have come across is a lack of self-esteem. Of all the people I have seen in that time as individual clients, in therapeutic groups or as training course participants, at least 90% said that they felt that lack of self-esteem had contributed significantly to their experiencing a poorer quality of life and had stopped them taking up good opportunities that came their way because they undervalued or under estimated themselves so much. This sparked my interest in the subject, not least because it was an area where I struggled too in my early days. Feeling ‘valuable, worthy and wonderful’ most of the time was a state I could only dream of in those days! I had a sense that it was a key to experiencing afar better quality of life. The following article summarizes my journey.
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