411: Ask David: What’s Self-Esteem? What’s Self-Acceptance? Do We "Need" Them?

1667.629 - 1701.32 Dr. David Burns

Yeah, the way I think about self-esteem, it's the decision to love yourself as much when you fail as when you succeed, or perhaps even more when you fail and when you're hurting. And that's when we love, say, our animals the most, when they're hurting, like if they've been in an accident or something. They're sick or children or, you know, loved ones. And it's nothing that you have to earn.