How Low Self-Worth Quietly Shapes Your Life

Key points

Low self-esteem can become such a part of your identity that you lose track of its full impact.

Moving from one self-esteem crisis to the next is exhausting and all-consuming.

You may lose sight of how your self-esteem may be what is perpetuating your unhappiness.

Struggling with feeling good enough can all at once be both a lifelong struggle and also something you tend to forget about on a day-to-day, conscious level. So instead of being aware of how your low self-esteem impacts your life, you may be prone to moving from one self-esteem crisis to the next. This is exhausting and all-consuming, so much so that you may lose sight of how your self-esteem might be what is perpetuating your unhappiness.

Feeling not good enough, like you don’t quite measure up or you don’t bel