Category: Self-Esteem
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Don’t Let the Pessimists Dim Your Light: Protecting Your Optimism in the New Year
Don’t Let the Pessimists Dim Your Light: Protecting Your Optimism in the New Year
The start of a new year often brings reflection, hope, and vulnerability. In this reflective post, Leslie Tourish, LPC, explores how chronic pessimism—our own or others’—can quietly drain our emotional energy and optimism. Through storytelling and practical insight, she offers ways to protect positivity, set emotional boundaries, and cultivate optimism as a meaningful practice. This…
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3 Reasons You Already Have the Happiness You Need for the New Year
3 Reasons You Already Have the Happiness You Need for the New Year
As the new year begins, many of us look ahead hoping happiness will finally arrive. But research and reflection suggest something gentler and more reassuring: much of the happiness we seek is already present in our lives. This post explores three reasons you may already have what you need to enter the new year with…
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10 Effective Stress-Management Strategies
10 Effective Stress-Management Strategies
Stress: Why do we have it? Stress is the taproot of our survival system. Without it we wouldn’t have the motivation to get out of bed, nor the sense of preservation to look both ways when crossing the street. Therefore, stress in and of itself is as natural and part of the landscape as a…
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The Myth of the “Perfect Therapist”
The Myth of the “Perfect Therapist”
Struggling with low self-esteem leaves you feeling powerless, fearful, and stuck in self-sabotage. Break free with these 12 empowering steps to rebuild confidence—one manageable action at a time. Start with just one today, and watch your mindset—and your world—transform. You deserve strength, joy, and success. Begin now.
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Addicted to Love and Recovering with Self-Esteem
Addicted to Love and Recovering with Self-Esteem
Addiction to love is more common amongst women, and typically rooted in growing up in a home environment with less nurturing and warmth than the child needed. This leads into a pattern of recreating the chaos or “lack of” by trying to control situations, the love, or how one is treated by their mate. Low…
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Does Attitude Determine Altitude?
Does Attitude Determine Altitude?
Self-esteem and the investment in oneself to acknowledge that is a powerful component to helping people accomplish the altitude they want in life.
Leslie Tourish LPC 