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I'm Jensen Holt McNair. Where does your self-worth come from?

definitionally, our self-worth is our internal sense of being good enough and worthy of love and belonging from others.

And if you ask Google where your self-worth comes from, you'll find many, many articles

and TED Talks and master classes all saying something very similar.

According to a theory in psychology, our self-worth is determined mostly by our self-evaluated

abilities and our performance.

Essentially, we derive our self-worth from our abilities,

social standing, achievements,

and even what we believe were capable of achieving.

There's a master class you can take on how to build self-worth.

Its stated focus is to teach you how to unlock the ability to love yourself.

Now that seems to be the advice that we find when it comes to self-worth.

We will find our self-worth, our sense of being good enough and worthy of love,

if we can achieve success in this world and love and acceptance from others and ourselves.

But what if we don't have those things? What if we aren't

successful? What if we failed again and again never living up to our family standards,

our bosses expectations, or even our own desires for ourselves.

What if we don't have community like we'd want?

What if people aren't too happy with us, ignore us, or have abandoned us. What if, no matter how hard we try, despite all

that, we can't seem to figure out how to love ourselves as we are.

Because when the world doesn't think we're worthy,

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