Understanding What Self Esteem Is

We worry about whether feeling good about ourselves, thinking highly of ourselves, you know, narcisistic. We worry that if we make choices from a place of respecting our needs, desires, expectations, feelings and opinions, that we are going to alienate the people around us. So understanding what self esteem is matters because when we have a distorted idea about what self est m is, we tend to rely on external esteem for validation. And so we endu feeling codependent. I think of self esteem as being the of the forts that you feed you and the way that you treat you. Just like whatever else you put into your body also matters.