Does Self-Esteem = Good Mental Health? The Foundation for Jesus’ Mental Wellness

While many helpful tools and techniques are available today to help people foster good mental health, it seems much of the language around such tools focuses on the importance of self-esteem. As Dr. David D. Burns wrote in his best selling book Feeling Good, “At the bottom line, only your own sense of self-worth determines how you feel.” (p. 77) But is self-esteem really the place to ground our mental health?

Listen in as Scott and Shawn continue their discussion on learning to think like Jesus about mental health. In this episode, they uncover some significant ways that Jesus’ thinking runs against the grain of much of today’s conventional “self-help” wisdom — most notably, in what Jesus saw as the ultimate foundation or starting point for good mental health.