An awful lot of what passes for low self-worth or low self-esteem is really a manifestation of lack of forgiveness.
I'm not off the hook until I let everyone else and the world off the hook.
Worry and fear: the same.
These are not about the screen onto which they're projected but the sense that I'm going to be 'gotten'.
Where is that sense coming from?
The sense I have done something wrong.
And where is that coming from?
Unmade amends, sure, but, once those are made, lack of forgiveness:
Having an eye for 'sin' (in others) will result in me seeing myself through the same dirty lens.
The reason why no therapy I undertook to treat anxiety, depression, and low self-worth worked was because it did not focus on forgiveness.
Once I forgave, the problems went.
When they come back, I have allowed lack of forgiveness back into my head and thus my heart.