XYR* - Share Your Voice: Recent Episodes
Alla Koldunova and Shakib Ahmed
XYR is an editorial platform to share the voice. Podcast is the part of the platform created for the LGBTQ+ community people. Our target are young people: late millennials and generation Z, people who were born surrounded by digitalisation, whose mental state was affected by social media and internet causing anxiety, mental breakdown, identity search. We talk to people who are empathic to share, to know, to respect these stories or want to become new voice heard and share story on our platform. It’s important to be respectful and smart. Not everyone is strong enough to come out so open about sensitive topics. We communicate with them respectfully promoting on the specific channels and keywords, but with our stories we are raising the voice not with just expected statements. We want it to be real.
This is Niko Zanaria, a person who despite being only that, struggles every day with the judgments, Niko is a non-binary person.
In their upbringing Niko felt their loved ones had big plans for them, but guess what? Niko had even bigger plans, and they stopped pleasing everyone else to start living their best life.
Through this inspiring journey of discovery and acceptance, Niko nailed their times in the mental hospital and came out strong. Listen to Niko speak how they tackled the rules of a mental hospital and did positive actions to be better on their own.
Paritosh Sharma is a young emerging fashion stylish who went through many ups and down during his past life while discovering self. He suffered from many phases of conflict and bullying yet still didn't lose hope which brought him this far in handling himself in his best possible way. Listen to him on this podcast what he went through and how he combated his early life to be this independent in his present day.
Self-esteem
Confidence in one's value as a human being is a precious psychological resource and generally a highly positive factor in life; it is correlated with achievement, good relationships, and satisfaction. Possessing little self-regard can lead people to become depressed, to fall short of their potential, or to tolerate abusive relationships and situations.
Too much self-love, on the other hand, results in an off-putting sense of entitlement and an inability to learn from failures. It can also be a sign of clinical narcissism, in which individuals may behave in a self-centred, arrogant, and manipulative manner. Perhaps no other self-help topic has spawned so much advice and so many (often conflicting) theories.
Headspace: Improving How You Feel About Yourself
People who experience a steady diet of disapproval from important others—family, supervisors, friends, teachers—might have feelings of low self-esteem. Yet the healthy individual is able to weather off-putting evaluations.
Each person's experience is different, but over the course of the lifespan, self-esteem seems to rise and fall in predictable, systematic ways. Research suggests that self-esteem grows, by varying degrees, until age 60, when it remains steady before beginning to decline in old age.
Self-esteem can influence life in myriad ways, from academic and professional success to relationships and mental health. Self-esteem, however, is not an immutable characteristic; successes or setbacks, both personal and professional, can fuel fluctuations in feelings of self-worth.
Headspace: Frequently asked question FAQs
What causes low self-esteem?
Feelings of high or low self-worth often start in childhood. Family life that is riddled with disapproval can follow a person into adult life. Low self-esteem can also become a problem because of a poor school environment or a dysfunctional workplace. Likewise, an unhappy relationship can also alter a person’s self-worth.
How can you boost feelings of self-worth?
No one person is less worthy than the next person, and no one is deemed more important. Knowing this detail is crucial. To feel more confident and have healthy self-esteem, it helps to put aside fears of being worth less than others.
I feel like I can't do anything right. What should I do?
Ease up on yourself, and try not to engage in all-or-nothing thinking. Take a vacation from criticizing yourself for one hour. Talk to yourself as you would to someone you care about; you are likely putting yourself down and framing the situation at hand—whatever it is—in overly negative terms. If you begin to cultivate a habit of interrogating your self-downing thoughts, you will slowly learn to sidestep feelings of low self-worth.
Headspace: Signs of Strong Self-Esteem
The confident person is easily spotted and commands attention. But there's a healthy balance between too little and too much self-worth. Here are some signs that an individual has the right dose.
· Knows the difference between confidence and arrogance
· Is not afraid of feedback
· Does not people-please or seek approval
· Is not afraid of conflict
· Is able to set boundaries
· Is able to voice needs and opinions
· Is assertive, but not pushy
· Is not a slave to perfection
· Is not afraid of setbacks
· Does not fear failure
· Does not feel inferior
· Accepts who they are