Addicted to Approval: Reclaim Your Self-Esteem
âTo be beautiful means to be yourself. You donât need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.â ~Thich Nhat Hanh
The past few years have been full of hard but necessary lessons that I needed to learn about my relationships with othersâtheir limits, boundaries, what healthy relationships are and are not.
I realized that the foundation for some of my relationships (the unhealthy ones) was my need for attention and approval. This, of course, was futile, because we can only truly feel good about ourselves despite outside opinions.
Because I felt inadequate and overly self-critical due …