Personal Growth Planet Blog

By Amy Phillips-Gary

Have you ever felt stuck and stagnated in your life but couldn’t bring yourself to make a change? You might feel disappointed about who you are and where you are, but you don’t feel like you have the time or energy to do anything about it.

It’s quite possible that low self esteem is part of the reason why you feel so immobilized and unhappy.

Maybe you already have so many things and people demanding your attention, it seems that there literally is no time for you– to get that manicure you’ve always wanted to have, to take a class you’re interested in or to start figuring out why you tend to feel inadequate most days.

By Amy Phillips-Gary

I have this mixed up and confused sort of relationship with beauty.

I would so like to feel beautiful; and there have been moments that I have– but not as many as I’d like! For the most part, I look around me and feel sub-standard or merely okay.

Images of beautiful women in ads on tv and in magazines seem to hound me and exacerbate my lagging perceptions of myself. This doesn’t necessarily get better or easier as I get older either!