“To have high standards is often linked to low self-esteem.”

We have been reading Ilse Sand’s book Highly Sensitive People in an Insensitive World in The Highly Sensitive Creative Book Club. As it often does, some ideas from the book jumped out at me. 

One was when Ilse Sand talked about how highly sensitive people often lack faith in our own worth:  

“To have high standards is often linked to low self-esteem. High standards may have occurred as a way to compensate for this low self-esteem. The more you think you are not worth loving, th...