How To Heal Your Lack of Self-Worth

Start working with these and watch your life transform.

I’ve suffered from a lack of self-worth almost my whole life, I know what it feels like.

The painful truth is — most people who suffer from a lack of self-worth, are completely oblivious to the root causes of their persistent issues.

If you —

• Continuously find yourself in relationships and friendships where you're not valued and/or respected. Watch out for the patterns. You’re the common denominator in all of this. You might have some intrinsic self-worth issues that are attracting people who are simply affirming and mirroring your energy.
• Have self-esteem and confidence issues because you don’t know your value and think you’re useless.
• Allow people to walk all over you and abuse you, especially when you can do something about it by walking away, enforcing boundaries, and protecting yourself, you might be struggling with some self-worth issues.
• Were abused physically, sexually, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually, chances are — you grew up with some major self-worth issues.

Here’re Some Helpful Tips On How To Fix Your Lack of Self-Worth

Affirmations

Affirmations are not a myth.

They’re a scientific way of actively and intentionally re-programming, re-wiring, and reconditioning your mind.

When you struggle with self-worth issues, it prevents you from showing up fully in some capacity in your life.

Affirmations are a great practical tool for reprograming your self-worth. Affirming multiple times in a day:

“I AM WORTHY”

Can help you think of yourself as worthy.

I know the idea of using affirmations seems too easy to work, but they’re powerful.

Mindfulness and Increased Self Awareness

Mindfulness is the practice of being in a state of conscious awareness of your mind, thoughts, feelings, and all bodily sensations without judgment.

Mindfulness will reveal some of the underlying thought patterns that keep you from recognizing and appreciating your self-worth.

In order for these limiting thoughts to lose their power over you, you have to be willing to observe them over and over again, till eventually, you see them for what they are — just voices in your head that you’ve believed to be true.

This is the only way they start to lose their power over you, as you re-program new thoughts that highlight and emphasize your self-worth.

Enforce Boundaries Even If It Makes You Feel Like A Bad Person.

Protect yourself from people and energies that make you feel like you’re not valuable, worthy, or don’t matter.

For people with low self-worth and low self-esteem, enforcing boundaries can feel like a very difficult task, because they’re reliant on the external validation they receive from others.

The external validation you receive from others qualifies as the only thing that qualifies a feeling of worth and valuable.

Understand this —

• Enforcing boundaries sucks!
• You might feel like a bad person in the process. It’s ok!
• Your abusers might make you feel like you’re doing something wrong by protecting yourself from them.

Still. Enforce your boundaries and grow comfortable with sitting with your feelings of guilt.

Stop Looking At Yourself Through The Eyes Of Others.

Just stop doing this.

Stop viewing yourself from other people’s perspectives. It’s unhealthy for your self-image! Because when others don’t recognize your value or question your worth, you might start to do the same thing to yourself.

It doesn’t matter what other people think of you.

What matters the most is how you see yourself and what you think of yourself.

What do you think about yourself?

Actively Working on Healing Your Trauma

If you recognize that trauma is the root cause of your self-worth issues.

It’s best to start working through your issues through therapy, holotropic breathing exercises, or through the help of psychedelics.

You can read about how psychedelics helped me heal, in my article below:

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