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

Update: 2025-10-14

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Our culture tends to consider good self-esteem as the foundation for having good mental health. But is self-esteem really the right place to ground our mental wellness?

Scott and Shawn uncover how 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.

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