nstead of asking “Is this thought true?” it can help to ask ourselves “When did I first learn this?” We can the understand a little bit more what is going on and have more kindness towards ourselves instead of beating ourselves up and ending up in endless loops of negative thinking and numbing the issues with doom scrolling, alcohol, eating, shopping or whatever else we find we use to self soothe when we feel we aren't good enough
Listening to Your Body, Finding Your Voice. Many of us became “good” long before we became confident. We learned to read the room. To smooth things over. To apologise quickly and to not take up too much space. We understood that being agreeable often meant being accepted. For many of us, that role became second nature. But somewhere along the way, in being so attuned to everyone else, we stopped hearing ourselves, and that meant we became people pleasers, disconnected, and it showed up in how we saw the world and what we took photos of...