Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 75
THE MISCONCEPTIONS (AND SECRETS) OF
Self-Worth
BY LIYANA SILVER
I
f you don’t (yet) love yourself as
a default setting, or if you don’t (yet)
automatically assume that others just
can’t wait to love you, you are not alone.
Most of us don’t (yet). It is an all-out
epidemic — a pandemic — that must be
changed.
And to help change it, I’d love to share
with you three potent secrets to radiant
yet humble self-worth. May I? (I thought
so).
As I see it, we come into this world with
our self-worth pretty intact.
It might take a few decades, a few
years, or even a few measly days, but
relatively quickly after we burst onto the
scene in this “man’s world,” we girls and
women learn to stuff down, hide, or get
into an all-out war with certain parts of
ourselves, in order to “make it,” and be
lovable, valuable, and taken seriously.
We learn that we feel too much — or feel
too much of all the wrong things.
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