Healthy Self Authenticity Essay

Have you ever thought to yourself, how much longer am I going to go through this storm? Well, these past couple weeks that has been the single thought that has continuously reoccurred in my mind. I remember walking into class on April 8th and thinking this is going to be an extremely tough couple weeks. In class that day we talked about having a healthy self-esteem and authenticity. Authenticity is one of my strong traits, but having healthy self-esteem is something that I consistently have difficulties with. Before reading the definition of healthy self-esteem in the book my definition of it was, how you feel about yourself. According to our workbook healthy esteem is “having a balanced sense of self. Healthy self-esteem is about balancing confidence in your abilities with humility.” This is tough for me because some days I feel like my self-esteem is at an all-time high and then the next moment I can feel like I am at my lowest. I …show more content…
This hit home for me because listening to the young girls hard times made me think of my own story and how our stories shape us to be flexible in a lot of different ways. Having to be so strong at a young age and realizing that the struggle is only temporary reminded me a lot of my own life. This is how I have been feeling for the past two and a half years. When I wrote my own “This I believe” story I wrote about how I was able to overcome a vicious blood virus that I had when I was 8 years old. I learned at a young age that your life can change in a blink of an eye because that is exactly what happened to me. All over night I could not walk or write with my right hand. When people think that your life is going to end when you are only in the 3rd grade, you began to believe that too until one day my dad told me to “it’s all going to be over soon. Fight BB”. I knew that everything would be