“The brightest light moving away from us, unless it be reflected, is darkness to us.”

– Author Unknown

Imagine if you could go back in time, grab your younger self by the shoulders and speak to him or her. What would you say? Would you gently lead your younger self to a new way of thinking or reprimand yourself for an inappropriate course of action?

At a recent Extreme Esteem Workshop, I offered participants the opportunity to do just that with an exercise called Write a Letter to Yourself. The logic behind the exercise is that everyone needs help at different stages of life but often doesn’t receive it or doesn’t heed it until much later. Reaching back in time, we can recognize and validate the struggle we experienced back then. We can bring that struggle int...

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