Definitions
A person's overall subjective and emotional evaluation of their own worth.
What is self-esteem?
These are the four parts that make up your whole well being.
What is physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual?
Positive and happy people.
Who are the people I should surround myself with?
By focusing on how a person looks rather than what they think and stand for.
How does media and social media negatively affect self esteem?
The first step, and often an uncomfortable one, to working towards self-forgiveness.
What is understand your emotions?
A painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety
What is shame?
Taking a walk, getting into nature, meditating, or doing some deep breathing.
A list you make in the morning of things that you are thankful for.
What is a gratitude list/gratitude journaling?
People hiding behind a keyboard, computer screen, and telephone saying what they want seemingly without consequence.
What is cyber bullying?
When you are working towards self-forgiveness, sometimes this is the hardest thing to do.
The fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime.
What is guilt?
Connecting with a mentor, gratitude journaling, or even just doing some research.
Something that Tiffany tells us about our DOC and something that we need to learn to accept in our daily lives.
People take what they read to heart and internalize the things being said to them, possibly even to the point of unaliving themselves.
What are the consequences of cyber bullying?
After taking responsibility for what happened, expressing remorse, making amends and apologizing (including to yourself) you do this next in the steps of self-forgiveness.
What is look for ways to learn from the experience?
A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
What is an imperfection?
Going to therapy, seeing a doctor, talking with an old friend, and sometimes taking a day to just cry.
What are ways of taking care of your mental well being?
Specific statements that help you to overcome self-sabotaging, negative thoughts.
What are positive affirmations?
People will lie, create a false sense of reality, overly doctor photos, or just not share what is actually going on social media.
What is to avoid stigmatization/avoid bullying/avoid being degraded etc?
This is the last and final step in self-forgiveness, and it can include focusing on the present and future.
What is focusing on making better choices in the future?
A process of releasing negative feelings like guilt, shame, and anger toward oneself, while acknowledging and learning from past mistakes.
What is Self-Forgiveness?
Finding a good support system, connecting with your inner child, finding a hobby that makes you happy, or watching silly videos that make you smile.
What are ways of taking care of your emotional well being?
Turn an "____" into an "____" and it can turn your day around.
When the media and society decides you are a terrible person simply because you have substance use disorder without ever getting to know you.
What is stigmatization?
Self-forgiveness is not about _____, nor is it a sign of ____.
What is letting yourself off the hook, and weakness?