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

When people speak about their experience of this, what people talk about was their anger, the frustration and the arrogance of the other

one of the things I found helpful when I was doing this work in regards to my body image, which is something that, as someone who's lived a

The work you do on yourself impacts all of your relationships, and the level of compassion or criticism we show ourselves ripples out.

When we say, “I feel fat”, quite often, what we mean is that we feel bloated or uncomfortable or lethargic or sleepy or lazy or tired or

We're taught and encouraged to cut people off, close our hearts, or walk away from someone. And I realised that a lot of the pain and suffer

You're smart; you see how people being excluded does all an injustice. And yet… You just can't seem to apply this stuff to yourself.

It also reinforces the harmful notion that our bodies are something to be controlled and manipulated rather than celebrated and respected.

I thought of exercise as a tool for weight loss in many ways, and I have put a lot of time and effort into thinking about how I can change t

The problem with reinforcing this pattern is that your brain begins to associate your needs being met with danger - because you keep attacki