Today, I’m going to be talking about a topic that’s received a lot of talk in our society and therapy: self-esteem. Now, there’s a lot of interest right now in trying to understand what self-esteem means. I know that I have many clients who are parents that think that the way to give their children self-esteem is by praising them… but that often comes from a lack of clarity of what they’re really producing in their children. Most likely, what parents want for their children is to have self-worth.  
 
So, really, what we’re going to talk about is self-worth, and the difference between self-esteem and self-worth.  
 
Self-esteem is something that you give to somebody to elevate his or her self, whereas self-worth is something that is inherently present, already in you. Any of us – or any of you who are parents – can see within your child that there’s a spirit and a soul. But even if you’re not parents, maybe if you’ve had an animal, you’ve also seen within that animal that there’s a spirit a...