This exercise will make you 'absolutely happier' and healthier, claims life coach

Francesca Hogi claimed this exercise can help people start to question their conditioning about where their confidence and self-love should come from. (Representational image: Unsplash)

Life coach and TED speaker Francesca Hogi believes the problem that most people with low self-worth have comes from looking for validation outside of yourself.  She said it “is a slippery slope and it is a bottomless pit.”

You “will never feel good enough because there will always be something else” to achieve, another goal post to reach, Hogi told CNBC Make it and suggested an exercise that has been of immense help to her clients who struggle with self-worth.

It starts with a hypothetical situation.

“Imagine a newborn baby anywhere in the world,” Hogi said. “It could be your baby, hypothetical baby — doesn’t matter. What does that baby have to do to be worthy of love, of care, of kindness, of good health?”

Several people believe that the baby has a lot of work to do to be worthy. “But if you can accept, well, they don’t have to do anything,” she added, “we love them because they are,” then it can help get the wheels turning about what you have to do to be worthy yourself -- nothing at all.

Hogi claimed this exercise can help people start to question their conditioning about where their confidence and self-love should come from. Hogi said it helps them think, where does “our inherent worth as humans come from?” “It comes from just the fact that we are here, we are human,” she said.

The life coach, who is also gearing up to release her book How to Find True Love in April 2025, said that she found when people do this exercise, they’re “absolutely healthier” and “absolutely happier”. They are also more comfortable being their “authentic” selves, she added.