Embracing Self-Worth: The Value of Doing the Best You Could

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Embracing self-worth rejects the idea of perfection in meeting certain standards but envelops the idea of personal resilience, passions, positive intention, and willingness to grow. It involves accepting oneself and embracing one’s imperfections. It allows one to tap into one’s inner strengths and acknowledge one’s accomplishments.

Embracing self-worth is accepting the value of doing the best we could with the sense of understanding the meaning of value in our own lives.

In life, there is no doubt that we often feel a lack of self-worth. Perhaps this could stem from stress and difficult life events that hit hard. Or maybe, as part of our thought pattern, we could just be more prone to negative thinking. Possibly, because of how we go about life and view things in a certain perception, we set high standards of ourselves that sometimes go beyond the possible.

It is important to allow ourselves to embrace these imperfections as human beings and accept our weaknesses as a fraction of what makes us unique.

Ultimately, we don’t have to be perfect to be worthy because we are already enough.

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Embracing Self-Worth Starts With Self-Acceptance

Some may know, some may not know, but self-worth starts with self-acceptance.

Plenty of times, we are challenged by our own very cores as we navigate through the complexities of life. There are situations when we encounter such a challenge of aboding within the depths of our flaws and imperfections. This intricacy becomes a problem that turns off our ability to accept ourselves. What’s worse is it could evolve into self-loathe.

All becomes a mere blur. We begin to see ourselves as unworthy of many things – the good things. Because of our overly critical thoughts about our individuality, we overlook the positive and great things about ourselves. Instead, we become heavily consumed by everything wrong about who we are.

We are unable to accept our whole being as imperfect yet beautiful and worthy creatures.

How Self-Worth Affects Mental Health and Well-being

Self-worth is significantly important and greatly impacts our overall well-being.

A lack of self-worth and low self-esteem have been shown to lead to mental health decline. Issues like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and others may potentially emerge within the individual.

It is necessary to acknowledge and understand that negative beliefs about ourselves can cause us to engage in self-destructive behaviors such as substance abuse and even self-harm. Ultimately, a lack of self-worth erodes a person’s quality of life. With the constant self-criticism and negative self-talk, it only results to a troubling path.

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Role of Self-Talk in Self-Worth: Overcoming Negative Self-Talk

Do you ever catch yourself talking or murmuring to yourself in a subtle voice or an inner voice in your head?

Self-talk is a natural thing we all do at numerous points in our lives; sometimes, we don’t even realize or notice it. Some probably are unaware of its potent ability to shift your mindset and emotions. On that note, it is a powerful tool that can help us increase our self-confidence and even eliminate negative thought patterns, curbing negative emotions.

This acuity implies the importance of positive self-talk and overcoming negative self-talk. In order to improve our mental health and well-being, we must break out of the cycle of negative self-talk because this source of negativity can become repetitive and overwhelming, providing an illusion that makes it seem true.

To overcome negative self-talk, we must challenge our thoughts and replace the thought with a positive one.

Setting Boundaries and Assertiveness: Valuing Yourself and Your Life

An excellent step to valuing your life and embracing self-worth is practicing setting boundaries and assertiveness. It is also through these actions that we implicate self-respect.

Assertiveness can guide you to effectively express yourself and stand up for your own point of view in a direct and honest approach. When you know your worth as an individual with meaning, you are able to set boundaries with others and gracefully say ‘no’ in certain situations that you need to. By being assertive, we have control over ourselves, knowing and communicating our needs, wants, feelings, beliefs, and opinions.

Ultimately, an assertive behavior fuels self-worth. Embracing self-worth also empowers us to make healthy choices and take responsibility for ourselves.

Sarah’s Touch by Carla Atkinson is a book promoting self-worth that will surely tug at your heartstrings. This book offers a rewarding experience for children and along with adults to read.

We highly recommend delving more into the story to guide you on your journey to embracing self-worth and accepting the value of doing the best you could. To obtain your own copy of Carla Atkinson’s Sarah’s Touch, you may click here.

Book Author at https://www.storytimewithcarla.com/
Carla Atkinson has dedicated her life to the welfare of children, beginning her journey at the age of eleven by teaching Sunday school and babysitting. In 1968, she and her husband, Jim, opened their home to foster children, ultimately caring for over 200 kids. Their family has expanded to include 125 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In 1984, they founded a group home agency, establishing six group homes, a foster agency, and a special education school. Carla's commitment to children's health and education continues to inspire her community and shape her advocacy work in foster care and child welfare.
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3 comments

  • Katherine Lindsey

    We need to destroy that inner saboteur for us to grow!

  • Love how this article discusses about self-worth and encourages self-love

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