Many of us hear this term a lot and have come to believe that it means "how we feel about ourselves". But it is so much more than that. Self Esteem plays a pivotal role in our wellbeing, happiness, and having successful relationships and careers.

We have all heard and used the word baggage; he or she has a lot of baggage that they brought into this relationship. Baggage negatively affects self esteem, enough baggage will destroy it. We are all handed a script as children by our parents, our teachers, friends and environment.

These scripts are not always positive or healthy, they are sometimes not even totally accurate. Often times as children we misread things that happen to us or are said to us. Nevertheless we incorporate them into our script. And it is that script that we study and memorize by heart and act on for the rest of our life.