December 4, 2023
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Top Dysfunctional Family Roles Affecting Self-Esteem–Part 2

Children of dysfunctional families come to believe they are responsible for their parents’ problems. As a result they develop low self-esteem. Carl Benedict, Counselor What types of  dysfunctional family roles occur in dysfunctional families? What we learned from our families colors the way we feel about ourselves and our relationships. Types Of Dysfunctional Family Roles:

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Top Dysfunctional Family Roles Affecting Self-Esteem

  Why did we, as children, adopt dysfunctional family roles in our family? In dysfunctional families the roles we took on tended to be unhealthy because of alcohol or drug addiction, physical or sexual abuse, or extreme aggression by a parent. We fell into these roles as a way to reduce stress and emotional pain.

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How to Heal the Pain of Low Self-Esteem

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. – Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapist Check out these 6 practices to shift your dependency on others and begin to build your

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7 Useful Tips Healing Emotional Abuse to a Child’s Esteem Part 2

What is required for healing emotional abuse which damages children’s esteem? Previously, I gave the 1st three tips 1. Emotional Repression – Feel and express your feelings in healthy ways. 2. Emotional Violence – Heal your own inner child. 3. Parents Use Children to Satisfy Their Own Needs – Strengthen your self-esteem. Emotional abuse includes

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7 Useful Tips Healing Emotional Abuse to a Child’s Esteem

 Emotional abuse includes verbal violence and the lack of positive emotional support. Healing emotional abuse – how do you ever heal it? Emotional abuse includes verbal violence and the lack of positive emotional support. Abusers control, criticize, demean, ignore, make children less then, powerless, and victims. Abuse robs children of the ability to trust, healthy

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Self-Esteem: How Does Emotional Abuse Affect Your Inner Child?

Did you know in countries around the world up to 36% of girls and 29% of boys have suffered child sexual abuse (The 57th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights 2001)? This works out to about 1 in 3 children affected by sexual abuse. Fortunately, I never suffered sexual abuse as a boy.

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Self-Esteem: Importance of Healing Our Wounded Inner Child – Part 2

What is our wounded inner child? It is all the fearful, hurt, neglected, and vulnerable parts of our psyche, as a young child, which have separated from our being because of trauma or for survival. These parts never had a chance to express themselves, have a voice. Most of us, whether we realize it, have

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Self-Esteem: Importance of Loving Yourself – Part 1

From my experience of teaching self-esteem and recovery from codependency to teen girls for five years, more than 70 percent of American homes harbor codependent families. Thus, a codependent, dysfunctional, unhealthy family can occur as a result of members adjusting their behavior to survive in a family with an addict – someone who lacks the

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How To Restore Self-esteem: Recovery From A Dysfunctional Family

Dysfunctional families are the product of an emotionally dishonest, shame based, patriarchal society based upon beliefs that do not support loving self. Robert Burney A dysfunctional family kills loving ourselves so out of a need for survival self-esteem suffers a major beating. Did this happen in your family or a family you know? The following

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6 Secrets: Rebuild Your Self-Esteem: 6 Dysfunctional Family Roles

Without knowing, in our families we wanted to maintain balance of some kind. We unconsciously adopted certain dysfunctional family roles created by rules such as “don’t talk about the family problems.” The dysfunctional family roles we took on tended to be unhealthy because of alcohol or drug addiction, physical or sexual abuse, or extreme aggression

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