You can look put-together, sound sure, and even succeed, while your self-worth is still up for debate in your own head. Low self-esteem can feel like a personal flaw, something you ‘should be over by now’. Very often it’s better understood as a set of learned expectations about yourself and other people, shaped over time by early experiences and reinforced by what happened next. In this blog, I’ll explore three lenses that can make low self-esteem more understandable (and mor