Empowerment Through Healthy Self-Esteem - by Olga-Lucia Gamboa Arana

COURSE

Empowerment Through Healthy Self-Esteem

With Olga-Lucia Gamboa Arana

Learn strategies to cultivate healthy self-esteem, improve your confidence, emotional and mental health, and therefore your well-being. To do this, we will use reflections, meditations, and paper and pencil exercises. During this 10-session course, we will explore the different aspects surrounding self-esteem, gaining insight into how they are affecting our daily life. We will also learn strategies to boost our self-esteem, so we can shine and become a better, happier, and more confident version of ourselves. We will use methods based on neuroscience, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and self-compassion.

AuthenticityHealth & HappinessConfidenceNeuroscienceScienceManifestationVisualizationMindfulnessMindfulness MeditationSelf-Compassion

Meet your Teacher

Olga-Lucia Gamboa Arana
Sydney NSW, Australia

EQness is led by Dr. Olga-Lucia Gamboa-Arana Ph.D., a cognitive neuroscientist with more than a decade of expertise in the field of brain stimulation and neuroimaging. She also has a specialization in emotional intelligence, is a teacher of mindfulness. self-compassion, and mindful eating. Part of her research is dedicated to understanding how the brain forgets painful memories, a process essential for our wellbeing and that seems to be faulty in pathologies where intrusive thoughts are an issue.

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10 Days

3.6k students

4.7 stars

14 min / day

Authenticity

English

Lesson 1

The Roots Of Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is a complex human quality that goes beyond the common belief of "not loving oneself enough". Everything we do and each decision we make is affected by our self-esteem levels. But our knowledge about self-esteem is limited and we can only change what we are able to recognize and understand. The aim of this session is to get familiar with the concept of self-esteem and understand how it affects our wellbeing.

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Lesson 2

The Key To Our Happiness

We all want to be happy, but sometimes we don't know how! This can be in part because we do not know what we want in life or what values are ruling our lives. Not having this clarified promotes patterns of behavior that cause pain and suffering. During this session, we will try to identify our values and how close they are to the values that move our hearts and how far they are from the life we want to have.

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Lesson 3

The Impact Of Thinking & Speaking Negatively About Myself

More often than not, the opinion others have about us has a strong effect on us. However, we do not take into account that what we think about ourselves has a greater impact. We seem to ignore that the way we perceive ourselves will determine how well or bad we will do in life. During this session, we will be talking about the basis of our self-concept.

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Lesson 4

Conditional Self-Acceptance: Being My Enemy Number One

The ambiguous assessments we make about ourselves and our hard self-judgment really interfere with the process of accepting ourselves as we really are. In this session, we will reflect on this effect and talk about what can we do to work on our ability to accept ourselves unconditionally.

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Lesson 5

Doubts & Dignity: Trusting & Respecting Myself

There are times when we have trouble moving forward and this may be due to our doubts regarding our suitability to do things. This lack of confidence seriously damages our self-respect. In this session, we will get in touch with the concepts of self-confidence and self-respect, two fundamental aspects of healthy self-esteem.

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Lesson 6

False Beliefs: Identifying My Self-Defeating Thinking

Most of our emotions and behaviors are determined by our particular way of evaluating the events that caused them. Therefore, it is important to be aware of the content and quality of our thoughts. In this session, we will explore those false beliefs that sabotage our self-esteem.

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Lesson 7

Self - Compassion: “Selfishness” That Leads To Wellbeing

We have learned that putting ourselves first is somehow shameful and that the correct way is to act so that others are happy and free of suffering. This prevents us from being compassionate with ourselves even if we are going through tough times because there is always someone else that may need our attention. In this session, we will explore the path of self-compassion and how from this compassionate "selfishness", our compassion towards others gets strengthened.

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Lesson 8

Assertiveness: Exercising My Right To Say No!

Saying No! can be very difficult at times. This inability is based on the fear of being rejected, excluded, or confronted. We do not realize that our lack of assertiveness is very damaging because it does not only create immediate discomfort but also long-term resentments. In this session, we will come into contact with assertiveness and the benefits of making it part of our daily lives.

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Lesson 9

The Role Of Others In My Low Self-Esteem

We have the perception that others have an important role in our level of self-esteem. An ambiguous strange gesture, a phrase pronounced in a neutral tone or with the wrong combination of words can lower the level of our self-esteem on the spot, causing pain and suffering. During this session, we will reflect on the effect others have on our self-esteem levels, as well as the role we have in the self-esteem of others.

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Lesson 10

Crafting Wellbeing: 8 Strategies For The Development And Maintenance Of A Healthy Self-Esteem

Many people would like to find the spell that would make low self-esteem, unhappiness, and suffering disappear with a snap of the fingers. However, healthy self-esteem, happiness, and peace require time and dedication. During this last session, we will talk about different resources to cultivate and maintain healthy self-esteem levels that will help us live our lives with more confidence and authenticity.

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4.7 (55)

Recent Reviews

Yossarian

February 19, 2025

Very good course. The last few sessions lacked a guided meditation. Still, amazing though. I would listen to this course again.

Nikki

August 3, 2023

Excellent teacher and lessons. Really appreciate the thought and care into each lesson and felt I learned so much. Thank you!

Melanie

July 13, 2023

Thank you for your commitment in helping myself and others as to how to improve and or maintain healthy self-esteem; this is an area that I want to improve and implement your teachings.

Cyclical

September 13, 2022

This was very supportive and opening for me. I will continue to come back to these practices. Thank you!

Fee

August 11, 2022

Well planned course thank you

Monica

July 5, 2021

Spectacular!! Thank you for insightful analysis. I will repat it again, as there are many valuable ideas. Gracias! Es realmente espectacular.

Sammy

March 25, 2021

Great tangible information and tools!

Jara

March 4, 2021

Amazing course. Thank you, Lucía

Teesa

January 30, 2021

Thanks for this course! I saw myself producing results daily because I really took the assignments to heart and wrote notes everyday. I’m going to share this with someone soon.

KatieG

January 27, 2021

Well done, the concepts are not new to me but the course was a heathy review, thank you! 🙏🏼

Robert

January 20, 2021

Excellent program. My only issue was that the presenter was sometimes hard to understand.

Rachel

January 19, 2021

For me, this course was a great refresher and reminder of many important practices that help me move through life with more happiness, peace and grace. Thank you!

Nancy

January 12, 2021

Thank you..very much enjoyed your course and your many responses. Good information

Liana

January 4, 2021

Wonderful course - very informative and applicable to everyday life and interactions.

Ruby

January 1, 2021

Loved it! Retaking again. So grateful you brought this to us. Thank you!

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