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Originally Posted by CANDC
I always find you very cordial and welcoming. I was pressed on with guilt when I was a child. "You have everything, you should be appreciative, when we were kids we really suffered." It did a blow to self esteem.
Low self esteem can create that kind of thinking as undeserving. There is a forum on esteem here at PC.
You really do deserve what is happening to you because you are you. When you can look in the mirror and say it and believe it, then this load will be lighter.
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It's funny you should say that about guilt as a child, it's something that was a part of my childhood and I have consciously striven to avoid that with my own child. One of the knockout comments my friend made when he came over was how affirmative both me and my husband are with our son. He also called me a kind, funny and interesting friend - it triggered feelings of being undeserving, go figure as they say.
What you say about deserving because I am me is very powerful. I need to believe this.
Thanks again CANDC.