Fill Up Your “Value Cup!”

“Your sense of self-worth strongly influences your potential to fully recover.”

Until you stop depending on your social influencers to determine your value, your sense of self-worth will fluctuate according to their opinions and perspectives. The common ones - family, friends, teachers, coaches, mentors - may have good intentions but nevertheless, they can only fill you up so much with “value.”

As an alternative approach, allow your self-worth to originate from your innermost core, your spiritual essence. Since your spirit supplies love, compassion and forgiveness, your self-worth will automatically absorb these qualities, filling your “value cup” with only good stuff.

Such a suggestion may sound too elementary, yet this approach is the most self-empowering. From now on, you will control your sense of self-worth. You will have the capacity to draw from a limitless resource.

From my perspective as a long-time physical therapist, the more you value yourself, the more you feel like you matter, the better the recovery outcome.