Profs & Pints Baltimore: How to Feel Worthy

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “How to Feel Worthy,” with Marisa G. Franco, psychologist, assistant clinical professor at the University of Maryland’s Honors College, and New York Times best-selling author of Platonic and the new book Worth: The New Science of Self-esteem and Secure Attachment. Doors open at 5. The talk starts at 6:30. The room is open seating. Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Available at [https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/baltimore-feel-worthy] If you don't feel worthy, you can achieve great success but still feel like a failure. You can find great love and still feel unlovable. Sometimes the very things that should make us feel worthy only make us feel worse. Studies reveal that if we don't feel worthy, we are more likely to deflect compliments and affiliate with people who treat us negatively. Fascinatingly, when positive events happen in our lives, we only feel sicker. But there is a way forward. Join Dr. Marisa G. Franco, who previously has given outstanding Profs and Pints talks on friendship, for an interactive evening built to help you shift long-held negative beliefs about yourself. She’ll describe how self-worth is stubborn, because our brain is invested in maintaining the same sense of self-worth that we developed in childhood. It does this to protect us, so that we don’t trick ourselves into feeling better and get further crushed should the harms of our past—rejection, bullying, neglect—happen again. You'll learn about the paradox of self-worth and how the very things that should make you feel more worthy--people who love you, great success—can actually only make you feel worse. You worry that you can't live up to others' expectations and you experience more anxiety. Dr. Franco will discuss the foundation of self-worth and how, as researchers put it,…