by Dr Cathy | Apr 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Expectations, Comparisons and Self-Image You have expectations of yourself and of others. It's natural. The question is, "How do you develop those expectations?" Are they realistic, setting you up for disappointment and, possibly, a self-esteem hit?...
by Dr Cathy | Apr 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Must You Have Self-Esteem to be Creative? The last week I've focused on causes of low self-esteem and how to over come them. I'm going to take a little break today and reflect upon whether you need to have self-esteem to be creative. A Day at the Museum...
by Dr Cathy | Apr 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Power of Failure I've been doing a series of posts expanding on the previous post on 10 Causes of Low Self-Esteem. Earlier I talked about the difference between mistakes and failures. Today, I want to focus upon the word failure and what it means to...
by Dr Cathy | Apr 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Your Thoughts Are Indicators of Where You're Going "Change your thoughts and you change your world." ~ Norman Vincent Peale Back when I was a kid, I heard Mom and Ma (my maternal grandmother) talk about saying good things about myself....
by Dr Cathy | Apr 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Pulse Nightclub Verdict: An Indictment of All Who Perpetrated the Lie I'm taking a break from my series on self-esteem and self-confidence to talk about the verdict of Noor Salman, the wife of the man who killed 49 and wounded 53 members of the gay community. We...
by Dr Cathy | Apr 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Mistakes Are Failures When You Quit Several years ago an on-line journalist make a mistake in the use of the word "penultimate." People let him have it in the comments section. You would have thought he'd done something which brought the end of the world closer. He...
