Happy Valentine week! If your self-esteem is low you are most comfortable with persons whose self-esteem resembles your own and if your self-esteem is high you will naturally gravitate to those whose view of themselves are similar. Nathaniel Branden discovered that your level of self-esteem correlates to success in the arena of intimate relationships and friendship.

If you don't value yourself, and if you feel as if you are not lovable or worthy of love you will attract those relationships that mirror your belief about yourself.

This valentines perhaps the greatest gift we can give to ourselves is a healthy boost of self-esteem.

"Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself--no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are---completely; the good and the bad---and make changes as YOU see fit--not because you think someone else wants you to be different."
Stacey Charter