Self-Esteem Counseling

Okay–you’re here. That probably means a part of you is wondering if life is passing you by. Maybe you don’t think about it all the time. But there’s something hovering in the background that you can’t quite pin down. It might be faint inklings of regret or “if only’s.” A feeling of time slipping through…

Much has been said about enoughness and its flip-side, not enoughness. Not surprisingly, I’m kind of partial to the subject of enoughness, and not just because it shows up often in my therapy and coaching work with women. I also have my own vivid memory of a long ago scrawl on a crumpled piece of…

Some days, your self-esteem needs a lot of nurturing. Maybe it’s a day when you’re struggling to get things done but you can’t get any momentum going. Or you listened to a podcast that convinced you you’re not where you should be in life. You might even be about to enter a personal rabbit hole…

Holding space for yourself is, at its core, a beautiful gift of self-compassion. It’s a deep form of self-care that’s essential for emotional well-being and self-esteem. And yet, for all of its goodness, if you were to tell me that holding space for yourself is difficult or confusing, I would not be surprised. Moreover, it’s…

Compare and despair. You’ve probably experienced that, right? Compare and despair is the moment when you compare something about yourself or your life to someone else’s. In that moment you might find yourself tunneling down into uncomfortable feelings of distress and dismay, perhaps even edging toward a kind of despair. Something gets triggered for you, or you…