The Baggage Reclaim Sessions podcast is back from its Christmas and New Year hiatus! In this week’s episode, I demystify the term ‘self-esteem’. I also break down why we don’t need to mic...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/podcast-ep-248-keeping-it-real-about-self-esteem/
Let’s not kid ourselves: Everyone cares about what others think to an extent. As humans, we all want to be accepted, and so conversely, we’re all afraid of rejection. We also like to follow...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/learning-to-care-less-about-what-people-think/
In this week’s episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions, I explain why seeing people, including ourselves, as only one thing is a trap. It causes us to deny, rationalise, minimise, excuse, assum...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/podcast-ep-212-people-can-be-more-than-one-thing/
It can be pretty uncomfortable to acknowledge that sometimes we’re more superficial than we imagined ourselves to be. When we reflect, for instance, on our attraction to someone we experienced ...
Sometimes, what we miss the most about someone is who we thought we were or who we became when around them. In our mind, we became someone with possibilities. We blossomed into the most attractiv...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/feeling-like-someone-took-the-better-version-of-you-when-they-left/
Have you struggled with the discomfort of a change you’re trying to make? You’re not alone. Whether it’s because we’re attempting to distance ourselves from something or someone by attemp...
It’s amazing what we talk ourselves into and accept from others when we don’t believe that we’re worth it. Or, when we know we are but don’t think who and what we want is out there. There...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/no-more-crumbs-is-a-big-yes-to-love-care-trust-and-respect/
On this week’s episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions, I talk about turning 40 and why a rough week where I struggled with grief and confusion, caused me to hear the words, ‘I am here’. I ...
While chatting with a friend who is only a few months in business and having her doubts about continuing because of how she feels about valuing her work she said, “I don’t feel worthy of char...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/the-vicious-cycle-of-undervaluing-yourself/
It’s time for another episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions. In episode 48, I cover: Making a start with building your self-esteem: One of my most frequently asked questions is, How do I buil...
One of the things that we need to acknowledge when we insist on telling ourselves that we’re “not good enough”, is that coming up with reasons is ironically a way of making us ‘super spec...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/are-you-making-you-special-by-being-mean-about-you/
There’s this falsehood that many people who are in the process of improving their self-esteem, addressing unhealthy or redundant habits, or who are thinking about doing any of these things, sub...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/im-still-standing-youre-still-standing-were-still-standing/
House hunting has reminded me of my last post, Appearance isn’t the same as worth. Each day we look at properties on the likes of Rightmove and Zoopla. We’re immersed in photos, floorplans an...
I’ve been having a number of conversations recently with people who are struggling with their self-image due to it being tied up in their appearance. The stories have a theme of believing that ...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/appearance-isnt-the-same-as-worth/
Recently I wrote about the trouble with being blinded by intelligence which is placing a high value on what you perceive to be someone’s intellect and then correlating it to the rest of them an...