In this installment of our How To series, we take a close look at self esteem and how to enhance it. Using my way of understanding symptoms, we can translate them into a better, and more accurate, narrative about ourselves that can lead to more powerful experience that is more aligned with living at greater peace with ourselves.

Learn how to recognize false and/or negative narratives about yourself and how to transform them into ones that capture your experience at its core so that you can begin to make choices that fit with your deeper needs and wishes. Therapy experiences tend to not get specific enough with these themes and provide little direction for how to utilize the knowledge to come to a settled feeling with yourself about them, but these ideas can help you make more progress relatively quickly.

Among the key ideas are: accepting your trauma more fully, recognizing that all parts of you are good and understandable given your experience, and making decisions that honor who you know yourself to be, even if they may run counter to others in your life. There is nothing more important than coming to terms with yourself for symptom relief and getting rid of all doubts.