The highs and lows
It occurs to me that I hear too often of late a phrase that has become embedded in our psyches and is used as a concise catch-all to help us understand our behaviours or the behaviour of others: low self-esteem. We use it not only to make sense of behaviours and motivations but also to excuse them. Like any ‘off-the-shelf’ concept that finds its way into every day parlance, it can be a little too easy to apply and, therefore, sometimes obscure a less palatable truth. Indeed,
