Talking Behind People’s Back-Do You Have High Self-Esteem?
Excerpt From the Revised & Updated Edition of
My Feet Aren’t Ugly
“Every time you make fun of someone or talk about people behind their backs, you act like you’re better than they are. It leaves you feeling bad because you know deep down that you are not better than they are.“
Kids talk behind each others backs all the time, actually all age groups do this. How did it feel knowing someone was talking behind your back, saying mean things about you? Terrible! Well, the problem is, not only are you making someone feel crummy about themselves, but you are making yourself feel crummy too. Whenever we do things that aren’t nice to others it makes us feel bad about ourself and lowers our self esteem. We want to be seen as a good person in our own eyes. If we aren’t, it affects how we view ourself. Just think of it like this…if you say something bad about someone else it bounces off of them, and back onto you. So you are actually saying those mean things about yourself.
If you want to have good self esteem, you have to like yourself, to like yourself, you have to be like-able. It’s hard to be like-able if you’re being mean to others. It’s pretty simple, if you’re a mean person, you’re not going to like yourself, because we don’t like mean people. If you’re with your friends and they start talking badly about someone, is it possible for you to be empowered enough to stand up for that person, this is even taking it a step further. If you do good things to others, you feel really good about yourself. So, you have the choice, what’s it going to be?
Keep Loving Yourself,
Debra
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Looking Outside Of Yourself, Lowers Your Self Esteem
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My Feet Aren’t Ugly
“So you want to be yourself and still be liked. Is this possible? What if you really liked yourself and if others liked you, great, and if they didn’t, would that be okay too? Wouldn’t that be a nice feeling not to care if everyone liked you? The way to do this is to develop self esteem.”
It’s exhausting to always be doing things to get the approval of others to feel good about yourself. You wake up in the morning and look in your closet and what you are going to wear depends on what your friends will think. You’re thinking of liking this guy in school, but your friends don’t think he’s cool. A lot of your decisions depend on what others think. What if one friend says one thing and another says something completely different. What are you going to do?
What if you just made decisions based on what you liked? How would that feel to you? A little scary? I’ve always noticed that when people do things and they are very confident about their decisions, no one questions what they have decided. When we look outside of ourself for approval, it means we are lacking in self esteem.
So, check it out, see if you are looking for the approval of others. If you are, try to move through your fear of your friends judging you or not liking you because you are you. Start showing up as you and see what happens. If you lose a few friends, are they friends you want to have around anyways? Probably not! We want to hang around people that like us for being us. Just realize that if you aren’t yourself around your friends it effects your self esteem. We always want to be able to do things that empower us, not take our power away.
Keep Loving Yourself,
Debra
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If You’re A Bully, Do You Have Low Self Esteem?
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My Feet Aren’t Ugly
“I was bullied a lot in middle school and it took my confidence completely away. I think kids bully because they have low self-esteem and need to make others feel worse than them.”
This is a comment made from a teenager in high school about his feelings about being bullied. I think he is right about why kids bully. I find that the biggest bullies feel the worst about themselves. The need for the bully to make others feel inferior so that they can feel better about themselves. If you bully, even a little bit, it’s time to go inside and ask yourself why? The effects bullying has on the bullied can be very damaging and the effects on you if you are a bully might be even worst.
When you do things, (not treating someone nicely) that you know aren’t nice, it effects your self esteem. So being a bully puts you in a perpetual state of not liking yourself. You feel badly about yourself, so you go pick on someone, then you feel worse about yourself. The more you bully, the worse you feel and the lower your self esteem goes. When you look at the qualities you like in others, one of those is probably kindness. It’s going to be hard to like yourself if you aren’t being kind to others. If you don’t like yourself, your self esteem takes a beating. So, even though you may be beating someone else up, you are actually beating your self up as well.
If you want to feel good about yourself and have confidence, you have to be someone you would like. Take a good look at yourself and your actions and be honest with who you really are. If you need to make some changes in the way you act, good for you for noticing. Bullying doesn’t have to be just a physical action, it can be saying bad things to someone to get them to feel bad. So, look closely and see what actions you can change. Let me know how it is going if this is an area of difficulty for you.
Keep Loving yourself,
Debra
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Being In friendships With People Who Treat You Right = Good Self Esteem
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My Feet Aren’t Ugly
“When you allow people to treat you poorly, it’s because you don’t feel worthy of being treated with respect. Poor treatment can be as simple as a friend saying she will do something with you and not showing up or calling to let you know her plans have changed. It could also be her talking about you behind your back. You know in your inner core when one of your friends is treating you badly. Try not to ignore it. Let’s look at the type of friendships you are in and how your friends treat you. This will tell you what you think of yourself.”
If you want to know where your self esteem is, look at the friends you hang around. If your friends treat you poorly, your self confidence is suffering. A lot of people don’t even know what being treated poorly looks like, so lets take a look at that. If you have a friend tell you she is going to go to the movies with you and she changes her mind and tells you she is hanging out with someone else, that’s not respectful. It can also look like a friend criticizing you about who you are or what you look like or she doesn’t support you when you need her. These are just a few ways your so called “friend” doesn’t act like a real friend.
If you have self confidence you won’t let your friends treat you badly, it’s that simple. If a friend is treating you badly, you confront them and ask them to treat you differently. If they won’t you find a new friend that will respect you and treat you better.
Your self esteem can be monitored a lot of different ways. Checking out how your friend treats you is a very easy way to see where you are at. So, go look at your friends and how they show up for you and see where your self esteem is. Then see if you have to have a talk with them about showing up in a different way. Your worth having good friends in your life, you deserve it.
Keep Loving Yourself,
Debra
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Self-Esteem is Having Confidence and Satisfaction in Oneself.
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My Feet Aren’t Ugly
“A lot of people don’t feel confident and satisfied with themselves. How do you feel? Liking yourself gives you self esteem. Do you like yourself? Are you likable? When you like yourself, it gives you confidence and satisfaction. So, let’s figure out how to like yourself.”
First of all, it’s hard to like yourself if you are not likable. I don’t mean likable to other people as much as I mean likable to you. If you don’t like yourself, it equals Low self-esteem.
Most people look outside of them self to check in with how they look, if they’re likable, or if they are okay in the world. The problem with this is that everybody in world has a different opinion about what good looks are, and what makes them like people. So you’re going to be attractive to some and not others, and some people are going to like your personality and some just aren’t. So, if we are always looking outside of ourselves for validation of who you are, you may be showing up as a different people everyday. Because if one person likes you this way, you have to be that way, and what if another person likes you a completely different way. It will get exhausting!
Now, seriously look at yourself, are you likable to you? A good way to look at this would be put together a list of what you like in other people, and then look at it and say is this me. Because if it’s not, you may have difficulties liking yourself. Remember our goal here is to have self esteem and confidence. Just to get you started here is a list of qualities I like in other people.
Qualities I Like In Others:
- Honest
- Loyal
- Humble
- Loving
- Caring
- Kind
- Positive
These are just a few qualities that I would like in others. Now, this gives me something to work with. I take a look at this list and see the areas I need to work on. Because if I like these qualities in others and I don’t see them in myself, well then, there is a problem. I’m going to have a tough time loving myself, feeling confident and having self esteem.
Keep Loving Yourself,
Debra
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Parents Empower Your Teen, Gift Them Self Esteem
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My Feet Aren’t Ugly
“You already have the power within yourself. Use it! You are strong enough to take care of yourself. The more you care for yourself, the stronger you will become. Just take action, and do it! Become the person who is confident and satisfied with herself.”
I am always talking to parents about the control they think they have over their teenagers. The bottom line is they have none. If a teen wants to do something, they will find a way to do it, whether their parents tell them not to or no. This is why I work with teens on empowering themselves because they have the control over what they are going to do, so we might as well start teaching them how to use the power they already have.
It’s an illusion parents, to think you have the control, so the sooner you start preparing your teen to use the power they have responsibility, the better off your teen will be. If a teen thinks they have control over their life and they are responsible for their actions, they will make their decisions more carefully. Then when something goes wrong, the only one to blame is themselves. Do you see how this approach might be more empowering then making all the decisions for our teens, with the illusion that their listening.
By giving the control to them, while teaching them how to make good decisions, we empower them with the tools they need to become responsible young adults. By making their decisions for them, we rob them of the life lessons they need to learn and it’s just not effective to getting them to not drink, have sex or even be committed to doing their homework.
If they are being held accountable for their own actions they behave differently, more responsibly. As parents our ultimate goal is to have independent, responsible, well adjusted, and happy kids. So, parents, test it out and see how it goes, and remember that I mentor both teens and parents to help with this process.
Keep Loving Yourself,
Debra
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Integrity and Self Esteem
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My Feet Aren’t Ugly
“Integrity is having an uprightness of character or action. It implies trustworthiness. You know your code of honor; you know when you show a lack of integrity, in other words, when you are not trustworthy. It is very important to develop integrity within oneself. When you lie, cheat, steal, or deceive, you hurt yourself. You damage your self-esteem.”
Our self esteem is tied to how we feel about our self, so if we feel poorly about our self, our self esteem is going to suffer. If we don’t have integrity it is going to very difficult to like our elf and have self esteem. Being honest, and trustworthy is what integrity is all about. If we are lying, cheating or being dishonest in any way, it’s going to be tough to like our self. If we don’t like our self, guess what!? Right, it’s lowers our sense of self and confidence.
If we are doing things that we view as bad, we know we are out of integrity and then we start bad talking our self, it’s a double edged sword. You cheat or maybe lie, you feel bad about yourself. You talk bad about what you did and that’s when your self esteem is floating in the toilet. Remember what our goal is? To like yourself, have self confidence and have self esteem that rocks!
Be true to yourself and honest, so you can grow into the person you like.
Keep Loving Yourself,
Debra
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Bullies Have Low Self Esteem
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My Feet Aren’t Ugly
“When I was bullied I felt like an outcast, someone who no one would ever care about or didn’t even know existed. I feel very badly for kids who get bullied and I actually feel badly for the bully because obviously they have problems. Overall it’s not a good situation, but it does inspire me to be nicer to others, for sure.”
Think about how bad it would feel if you thought no one cared about you. School is hard enough without having to worry about the kids in school picking on you. This teen actually was showing compassion for the bully, saying she felt sorry for the bully because she realizes the bully must have big problems to treat others that way. She says it inspires her to be nicer to others. If you’re a bully, really think about why you are treating other kids this way, and see if you might want to change that about your self.
If you are being mean to others it affects you too. It lowers your self esteem because when we treat others poorly, we know deep down that we aren’t being a good person. If we aren’t a good person, we aren’t going to like ourself, if we don’t like ourself, guess what? It effects our self esteem. I really encourage you to take a good look at who you are and if you are bullying others at all, ask yourself why and then ask yourself if you might want to stop. We get back what we put out in the world, is that the kind of treatment you want coming back to you? I didn’t think so. If we were all nice to each other, wouldn’t the world be a much nicer place to be? I think so too.
Keep Loving Yourself,
Debra
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Self Esteem and Our Diet, Self Esteem Quiz Question
Quiz Questions From the Revised & Updated Edition of
My Feet Aren’t Ugly
5. You are at a friend’s house after school, and she brings out a dozen chocolate-chip cookies to snack on. You:
a. Eat one or two cookies, and don’t worry about it.
b. Pig out on six cookies because you are starving.
c. Eat as many cookies as you want because you are really skinny.
d. Get upset with yourself because you know you can’t have one, you ate too many sweets yesterday. say, “No thanks.”
Eating healthy is a tool to building your self esteem for a couple of reasons. If you take care of yourself, your self esteem grows, and eating right is taking care of yourself. Another reason is, if you eat badly you will talk bad about yourself, in other words you say bad things to yourself. The more you say bad things to yourself, the lower your self esteem goes. If you aren’t happy with what your body looks like on the outside because of eating poorly, it effects your sense of self. When you know you could be eating better and you’re not, you will feel badly about yourself. Even though we know that what is on the inside is what matters and it’s what truly makes us shine. If you are having a hard time moving around in your body because of your poor eating habits, it’s starts a negative Power Circle.
The Power Circle is:
“The more you do things you know are right for you-The more confidence you will have-The more confidence you have in yourself-The less you do things that aren’t good for you”.
Everything you do, eating healthy, developing good relationships with friends, exercising, being honest with yourself, everything is all wrapped up in how you feel about yourself, and your self esteem. If you are taking care of yourself, you feel good about yourself and your sense of self shines bright and powerfully. Take a look at your eating habits and do you feel good about what you are feeding your body? It’s the only body we have, so we need to treat it with care. Let me know some of the ways you keep your eating habits in check.
Keep Loving Yourself,
Debra
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Bullying Doesn’t Protect Against Bullying
Parents, encouraging your teen to fight won’t solve the bullying problem. This week, it came to light that a Long Island mother actually encouraged her daughter to fight another girl in school as a response to online bullying. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/09/mom-arrested-for-egging-on-schoolyard-fight-caught-on-tape-speaks-out/
Fighting isn’t a way to protect yourself from bullying, it is only a way to get you hurt and exacerbate the problem. If your daughter is being bullied, encouraging her to confront and physically fight the bully isn’t teaching your daughter how to resolve conflicts in a mature and effective way.
As a parent, you have a responsibility to protect your child; putting them in the line of fire isn’t protecting them. If going to the school authorities doesn’t work, keep talking to the school until they do something, while giving your daughter the support she needs to feel safe.
If you are a teacher, guidance counselor, school administrator, or on the board, you have a responsibility to help stop bullying. Kids used to insult each other on the playground, but now, bullying has escalated and moved online. This type of bullying is more insidious because it’s public, and it follows students around even after they have gone home for the day. Studies have shown that kids who are bullied can experience stress, anxiety, fear, depression, physical symptoms such as headaches and stomachaches, and even thoughts of suicide. If a student is going through all these things, he or she won’t be able to focus on schoolwork during the day.
Schools should work to create zero-tolerance anti-bullying policies and actually enforce them. Parents and students could be asked to sign No-Bullying Contracts at the beginning of each school year, and the issue could be raised at an all-school assembly each September, so students know what bullying is and why it’s wrong.
If your daughter is being bullied online, she shouldn’t respond to the bullies. You should keep a printed record of all correspondence, and talk to the authorities. If the authorities don’t respond, don’t take things into your own hands by encouraging your daughter to physically fight the bully.
Bullies pick on kids who lack self-confidence. Help your daughter develop the self-esteem she needs to not be the target of a bully. My book, My Feet Aren’t Ugly, is all about self-esteem and provides exercises to help your daughter learn to love herself. Giving your daughter the tools to become empowered will strengthen her self-esteem and will create a safer environment for her.
Isn’t this what we want as parents, self-assured, safe and happy teens?
Teach Your Teen to Keep Loving them self, Debra
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