Dear Kathy and Sharon, Thanks for sharing from the depths of your hearts. Low self-esteem and depressive struggles plague women so often! Many of my clients talk about the same issues you bring up. Several points:
I. This is a forum for you to share yourselves, some of the struggles and pain and also the successes and miracles. \
2. It is also a forum for me to do some teaching and responding. I can not do any form of psychotherapy, of course, here.
3. It is a place for an active conversation and sharing of hope from many different people. I would love for each of you to introduce yourselves a little as Sharon and Kathy have.
4. THE ENCHANTED SELF is a way of viewing our lives with optimism, hope and resislence. One way to do that is to work with the seven gateways to Enchantment. The first gateway is to get to know ourselves in positive, not negative terms. For example, trying to tell your life story with yourself as a heroine. I'd love for some of you to come aboard sharing some of your life in positive terms! As they say, try it you will like it.
I'll be back soon.
Take care,
Barbara
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein
Psychologist, Life Coach & Author
"Achieving Positive States of Mind and Body Again and Again"
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