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Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
Sometimes You Need to Find Your Own Holidays
Passover came and went this year and I not only observed the holiday but barely noticed its existence.Saying this feels cold, considering how many friends and relatives of mine are…
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
Your Unchosen Lifelong Companion Is ... You
Do you find it difficult to love yourself? I mean: to truly relish looking at and being with and thinking of yourself? When those of us who hate ourselves are told to love ourselv…
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
The Self-Loathing Look
In a public place thousands of miles from here, a stranger identified me as someone who lives in the same town as himself. I happen to hate this town, where the person behind you …
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
You're Not Fighting That War Alone
One of self-loathing's most devious tactics is to isolate its victims, chasing each of us into dark lonely corners in which we feel singled out and incomparably awful, just as thos…
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
The Food and Drink Industry Plays With Our Heads, Because It Can
Last week at the Fancy Food Show, an annual marketplace where over 1,000 food and drink purveyors showcase their wares, I tasted buttered coffee, beet ketchup, bay-leaf bitters, ci…
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
Some of Us Really Need Halloween
“The global prevalence of death-related holidays—such as Día del Muerto, the Hungry Ghost Festival, the grave-sweeping-and-lantern-floating Obon—evinces an ancient, universal need.”
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
Meditation Is Hard When You Hate Yourself
Maybe at some point you decided to try meditation. Maybe the practice you began back then fulfills you still. Or maybe not.
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
Self-Hatred: Made in America?
An anecdote often retold in meditation circles involves the Dalai Lama meeting with a group of Western Buddhist teachers. One teacher allegedly asked him how to aid students suffer…Tags:
• Self-Confidence
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
How (Besides Self-Hatingly) to Analyze Any Situation
The only thing I know for sure is that I deserve this.
Worthy: A Self-Esteem Blog
How Self-Loathing Makes Us Look (Mistakenly) Like the World's Best Partners
I've been called the perfect partner, the source of all happiness, a dream-come-true. And while such stratospheric grandiosities are nice to hear, they're hard to believe. Hey, I…
