We become fixated on trying to prove our worth to ourselves and to others, and this often leads us to see the actions of our partner as a

Is that managing your mindset and looking after your emotional health and giving yourself tools to stop yourself spiralling and things feel

The aspersion that we cast upon others and sometimes ourselves. I think we've pretty often conflated the idea of being needy with getting ou

The problem is that taking responsibility for our own emotions means that we're going to need to feel some of our negative emotions.

Being confident means being kind to ourselves, which is infuriatingly more difficult than it sounds. Especially when, logically, you know it

The more we are able to untangle our needs from other people's reactions, the easier it becomes to get really honest with ourselves about

Do you believe that confidence is just something that some people have and some people don't have? And you don't have it?

Unconditional acceptance sounds like a radical idea which drips with fear of forbidden things like laziness and indulgence. But rather than

Maths is a perfect example. I used to be terrified of numbers. Sometimes the pressure of absolute right or wrong clashed with the idea that

A good way to begin is to become aware of your self-talk. Stop and pay attention to the words which run through your mind on a daily basis.

Confidence is a belief in your capacity and abilities, and arrogance determines your worth by thinking you're better than others. Confidence

It's hard to build confidence for ourselves when we don't have a set definition of what that means.

Most of life is not happy and peaceful. Most of my life is a complicated mix of feelings and often a lot of things simultaneously, and some

Many of us have been socialised to make ourselves as small as possible so we're not an inconvenience. How many of us have been taught that

Where do you feel you need to perform perfectionism to give you confidence? It can feel like a tantalising lure, can’t it?

Have you created any New Year's resolutions that you were hoping to make a start on that you hadn't gotten around to yet? Or life took over

It took a lot of work on my body image, confidence, and past to acknowledge that I was trying to manipulate my body to stop predators.

That's why you can have people remind you how loved you are, how brilliant you are, and how wonderful you are. Left, right and centre, but a

I know that it held me back in so many ways. I felt like I didn't have anything of value to offer, and I've often avoided taking risks or pu

How can you make your body feel more at home? What kind of things do you think someone who does feel like their body is an ally would be say