The Woman and her Esteem: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem in Women

Esteem is a feeling of positivity towards yourself and a belief in your ability to achieve great things. It is a sense of knowing that you’re a valuable person. Studies show that women suffer low self-esteem than men. This is partly caused by societal and cultural nuances, childhood upbringing and perhaps, sad experiences.

Women with low self-esteem find it difficult to derive pleasure in themselves, they are always looking for validation from people to feel good about themselves, and they try to please everybody to gain their acceptance. In the end this may affect their relationship with people, because it turns out that the people they work so hard to please don’t reciprocate it. It may also affect their health and performance at work.

There are many ways through which a woman can boost her esteem, but the most effective way is meditating &speaking God’s word to yourself. So we’ll be looking at a few scriptures.

Matt 10:31 ‘So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows’.

Isaiah 62: 3 ‘You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God’.

Eph 1:5-6 ‘having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved’.

From this scripture, we can distill the following:

· You are valuable

· You are a crown of beauty

· You are a royal diadem

· You are royalty

· You have been accepted by God

With this understanding, you will no longer seek the acceptance of friends or feel negative about your body shape, because you know what the Word says. You’re royalty, so you carry yourself like one.

The truth is, nobody’s opinion about you matters as much as what you believe of yourself. You’re responsible for yourself. Therefore, replacing those negative thoughts about you with the truth of God’s word is the best gift you’d ever give to yourself. Because when you do, everyone would notice that something has changed about you.

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