DANIEL BROWN said something like this in the midst of a seminar I once attended: ‘No matter how bad things are – if you are breathing and there is someone who loves you like crazy, then I have great hope for you.’
He also said that he didn’t think that self-esteem/selflove originates within the self. It is a reflective love. It starts at the very beginning of our lives.
Those parenting us are our whole life and we invest everything into them. And if they reflect back to us love and care and nurture, then we receive the initial gift of a positive self-esteem.