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A groundbreaking book! A solid road map to recovery from the use of food as a coping strategy. (Learn more)  Interactive On-line Program Join Now! Self EsteemSelf-esteem means: How you regard yourself. If you regard yourself highly and believe you are a valuable human being who has the same worth and rights as everyone else you have high self-esteem. If you regard yourself as less than others; requiring external approval in order for you to feel okay; speaking negatively of yourself in your head and possibly even to others; focusing on what isn't right with you rather than what is; you would be considered to have low self-esteem. Low self-esteem is deadly. It makes us so insecure and desperate for the approval of others that we continuously compromise ourselves either by doing things that we don't really want to do or by not saying and doing the things that we authentically desire to. Low self-esteem also makes relationships with others very challenging because we are always putting ourselves below others: There can be no sense of equality in the relationship because we don't feel deserving of it, therefore, our relationships all have a sense of someone else having the power, whether they want it, or even recognize that they have it. In essence, low self-esteem takes our life out of our hands and gives it to pretty much anyone who happens to come along. If you focus on food and body image as a coping strategy you absolutely have low self-esteem. Please know that this is not a criticism from my perspective. It is a statement of truth that will set you free if you allow yourself to hear it and act on it. Just ask yourself what you truly, truly believe about yourself right now? Not what others have said of you but what thoughts and feedback you offer yourself inside your head. If your answer did not include authentically seeing yourself as an equal to everyone else in terms of worth and rights, your self-esteem is compromised and therefore undermines your sense of safety and security in the world. Nothing makes you need to use food to cope or focus on your body in a harmful way like a feeling of insecurity in the world or in certain relationships. You deserve to feel as worthy and as powerful as everyone else in your world. Our work with clients supports you to understand where your current perceptions of yourself as "less-than" came from and most importantly what you can do to begin to know, in your gut, that you are a lovable, deserving, worthwhile human being. Your authentic awareness of that fact will have a dramatic and positive impact on your need to use food to cope. Let us support you to know your worth. Send us an e-mail and let us know how we can be there for you. |
Michelle Morand
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Food is not the Problem: Deal with what is!
