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Increase your self-esteem by facing your fears (1 minute read)

This post is about how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by facing your fears: Here, the post continues with important reflections to be made when doing an exposure to manage fear. Important strategies to handle possible strong reactions during an exposure are: – Regulate stress-level through mindful…

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Increase your self-esteem by exposing yourself to fear (1 minute read)

This post “Increase your self-esteem by exposing yourself to fear” is about how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by exposing yourself to fear: Here, the post continues with how to handle fear. Emotional exposure aims to create strong emotional reactions by repeatedly experiencing the feared subject or situation….

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Increase your self-esteem by re-evaluating fear (1 minute read)

This post  “Increase your self-esteem by re-evaluating fear” is about how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by re-evaluating fear: This post continues with fear. Exposure is the main technique to constructively handle fears, i.e. with the aim to living the life you would like and not avoiding…

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Increase your self-esteem by managing fear (1 minute read)

This post “Increase your self-esteem by managing fear” is about how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by managing fear: This post continues with fear. As mentioned in the last post, fear is a powerful, primitive and lifesaving emotion. Fear makes us aware of dangers and entails important…

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Increase your self-esteem by managing exaggerated fear (1 minute read)

This post “Increase your self-esteem by managing exaggerated fear” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by managing exaggerated fear: This post is about exaggerated fear. Fear can be connected to stimuli or situations that are not per se dangerous – i.e. the reaction is disproportionate…

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Increase your self-esteem by understanding the difference betweeen anxiety and fear (1 minute read)

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding the difference betweeen anxiety and fear” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding the difference betweeen anxiety and fear: This post is about the difference between fear and anxiety. Some think that fear and anxiety are versions…

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Increase your self-esteem by understanding fear (1 minute read)

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding fear” starts with how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding fear: Feelings can be real as when they are signaling our inner needs and desires. They can also be used as defense mechanisms in order to cover other feelings….

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Increase your self-esteem by using the strategy ‘escape reality’ (1 minute read)

This post “Increase your self-esteem by using the strategy ‘escape reality’  ” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings. There are several mature defense mechanisms that are helpful strategies for: -Managing unwanted impulses and anxiety -Resolving underlying issues or problems -Getting a more peaceful mind and relationships   Increase…

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Increase your self-esteem by understanding the dangers with compensation (1 minute read)

This post“Increase your self-esteem by understanding the dangers with compensation” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings. There are several mature defense mechanisms that are helpful strategies for: – Managing unwanted impulses and anxiety – Resolving underlying issues or problems – Getting a more peaceful mind and relationships  …

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Increase your self-esteem by deliberate compensation (1 minute read)

Here the post “Increase your self-esteem by  deliberate compensation” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by deliberate compensation: There are several more mature defense mechanisms than the ones suggested by the psychiatrist Vaillant and which have been the topic of the last posts….