How do you raise your self-esteem and genuinely feel good about yourself?

How does this work?

Is it possible for someone who has a lot of emotional baggage to go from having a lifetime of low self-esteem to feeling great about oneself (at least most of the time if not all)? Can this really happen and how?

If this were something so simple that I could “just do it” then I wouldn’t need to ask this question.

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