{"id":1245,"date":"2009-08-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2009\/08\/10-steps-to-a-selfesteem-file.html"},"modified":"2009-08-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T09:00:00","slug":"10-steps-to-a-selfesteem-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2009\/08\/10-steps-to-a-selfesteem-file.html","title":{"rendered":"10 Steps to a Self-Esteem File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"file.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/import\/imgs\/file.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For newbies, or for any reader wanting more information, I recently wrote out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/gallery\/selfesteemfile.html\">10 steps to make your own self-esteem file.<\/a> These instructions are featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/gallery\/selfesteemfile.html\">this Beliefnet gallery that you can get to by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my intro to t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/gallery\/selfesteemfile.html\">he gallery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago I walked into my therapist&#8217;s office feeling like a Krispy Kreme donut: I had no center. 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