Dear Selfless Esteem, I have a lazy teenage drama queen. She's so irritable and just "bed rots" on her phone all the time.

I’m in my 60s with a wonderful wife, a fulfilling career, and more than enough to live comfortably. Yet when I learn someone else has more money or greater success, I feel envious. I recently learned ...

I think I’m a shopaholic because I shop till I’m out of money. My husband tries be understanding–I tell him it’s because my family was so poor that we were homeless at one point when I was growing up ...

Today’s blog post will be a little different than usual. It’s a devotional about how our emotions influence our actions. Let’s consider fear and turn to 1 Kings 12:26-33. But first a little background ...

I’m unemployed right now so my mornings are unstructured. When I wake up, I don’t want to immediately jump into my daily job hunt process, and I don’t want to get on my phone or watch tv either. What ...

Who Is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Trinity consists of three persons in one God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is called “Counselor” (John 14:16; John 14:26), and His role is ...

Today we’d like to introduce you to Gina Leggio. Hi Gina, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story? I offer online therapy in California, Texas, and Louisiana. I ...

Parenting is challenging. We all try so hard to give our all to our children. We desperately want them to feel loved and connected. But somehow there is often a disconnect. Perhaps it’s a generational ...

My boyfriend has Borderline Personality Disorder and I don’t know what to do when he has fits of rage. Whatever I say makes him more mad. He has unpredictable, irrational outbursts and I try to reason ...

Check out informative videos on the Selfless Esteem YouTube Channel by Gina Leggio, LMFT, regarding life stressors, mental health issues, and parenting tips.

You usually suggest writing in a journal. Can you say more about that? I’m so tired at the end of the day that the thought of picking up a pen is like picking up a heavy weight. I need to be convinced ...

I’ve been getting noticed as a baseball player by coaches and scouts, which is what I’ve always wanted. But it’s also a bad thing because lately I’ve been playing terrible and of course I don’t want ...