Dr. Christina Hibbert http://www.DrChristinaHibbert.com explains "The Pyramid of Self-Worth"--a follow up to her video, "Self-Esteem vs. Self-Worth"    • "Self-Esteem vs. Self-Worth": 3-Minut...  . More on this topic, visit: http://www.drchristinahibbert.com/sel...

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1) Most of us are seeking self-esteem and self-worth whether we recognize it or not. As I wrote in another article, "self-esteem" is "a hot topic; a Google search will return 76, 200,000 results! There is plenty of advice out there on how to 'understand' self-esteem, 'evaluate' self-esteem, and 'improve' self-esteem, on teaching self-esteem to kids, teens, women, couples, grandparents! (OK, I didn't see any on grandparents, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere). As one major psychology site said, 'Perhaps no other self-help topic has spawned so much advice and so many (often conflicting) theories.'[i] And I agree."[ii] As I said before, I see it all the time--with my clients, friends, family members. It seems we're almost all searching for that true sense of who we are, that confidence that we are enough.


2) Most of us don't know what "self-esteem" really even means. It's hard to define and even harder to "have." I've come across many definitions of self-esteem, but the one I think fits best comes from my favorite book on self-esteem, Nathaniel Branden's "Six Pillars of Self-Esteem." He defines self-esteem as: "the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life. More specifically, self-esteem is: 1. Confidence in our ability to think...[and] cope with the basic challenges of life, and 2. Confidence in our right to be successful and happy, the feeling of being worth, deserving, entitled to assert our needs and wants, achieve our values, and enjoy the fruits of our efforts."[iii] How's that for a definition?


3) Self-esteem plays a role in all of our lives, whether we understand it or not. We may not fully understand what self-esteem means, but that doesn't seem to matter. It still impacts almost all of our lives in pretty incredible ways. As Branden writes, "The level of our self-esteem has profound consequences for every aspect of our existence: how we operate in the workplace, how we deal with people, how high we are likely to rise, how much we are likely to achieve—and in the personal realm, with whom we are likely to fall in love, how we interact with our spouse, children, and friends, what level of personal happiness we attain."[iii]

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