Critics
In order to raise your self-esteem and take back your power, you also
need to make sure you are not still being controlled by your parents,
or anyone else for that matter. While it is completely understandable
that you would be susceptible to allowing others to control you, you
will never feel good about yourself as long as you allow it. You will lose
respect for yourself each time you allow someone to control you, and
if you continue, you will eventually feel nothing but self-loathing.
In order to heal and raise your self-esteem you will
need to find powerful ways to quiet your critical inner messages.
Unless you are willing to
acknowledge and feel your pain at being emotionally abused, you will
find it difficult to experience compassion for yourself or others.
Remember, self-compassion is a direct antidote to the judge’s poison. The soothing warmth of a nurturing inner voice neutralizes that
poison. Tenderness dissolves the harshness and rejection. Call up your
nurturing inner voice and talk to yourself with compassion and understanding whenever you are being self-critical or powerless.
Culled from Healing your emotional self by Beverly Engel
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah kehinde
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