Truth is a term everyone understands with declared value and strong belief unless it is our own truth that needs questioned in times of discontentment. This truth now points to others as the blame for our unhappiness. Truth bypasses us. Someone else must be at fault We become fearful of accepting responsibility for our own happiness because we fear loss of any control we might have for our destiny if we allow the carefully built wall of non-emotion to break or any fear of potential rejection from a significant other. We move into a mode of survival and hold on more tightly to something we...

Self Esteem has always been the stepchild of human development. We tap dance around all of the problems people have with illness, relationships and communication issues, but it never seems to fall specifically on development of one's self esteem. It is posed as a need for assertiveness, self-improvement, or self-help. It is broken down into having depression, dysfunction, addictions, co-dependency and the like. When all of this is boiled together, it actually comes down to having high or low self-esteem in my opinion. It has always been somewhat taboo to use the word self esteem for very long...