Have you ever considered how your current self-esteem is significantly affected by your childhood? However, enduring a complicated upbringing that battered your self-regard doesn't mean you have to struggle with it forever. This free online course helps you find a new direction to restore your relationship with yourself. We begin by illustrating the results of low self-esteem and how it can ruin your life by instilling terrible feelings of despair, humiliation, anger, guilt and isolation. We explore several contributing factors to low self-regard, including overly judgmental parents, financial issues and job loss. The course then lays out some practical ways to control your emotions and manage anxiety.

We then examine the dimensions of self-esteem, including its relevance to your mental wellbeing and its effect on your ability to pursue your goals. Self-esteem reflects your outlook on life, and maintaining a healthy one allows you to pursue your dreams in the face of opposition. The course makes a clear distinction between ‘self-esteem’ and ‘self-worth’ and provides self-assessments to help you locate where you need to work on both. We also lay out the lifelong pathways to developing healthy self-perception.

In the final part of the course, we establish the many advantages of boosting your self-esteem and explain how to do so by cultivating constructive personal, lifestyle and mental habits. We present various strategies to improve your relationship with yourself to help you enhance your mental and physical health. Sign up to begin the process of restoring your sense of self to take control of your life.