suzeart: I’ve been doing a lot of work over the past year concerning confidence and self-estee

suzeart:

I’ve been doing a lot of work over the past year concerning confidence and self-esteem. It’s been difficult to tell myself positive things when I don’t actually believe them. Some days I can’t get to positive and have to settle for neutral, but that’s still way better than leaning into negative thoughts and putting myself down. 

Recently I’ve been having more good days, and though I’m sure there’ll be ups and downs I’m still proud of the effort I’ve been investing in myself with the help of therapists and friends. To those of you also faking it til you make it, you’re worth the work too and I wish you all the best.

Reblog for the morning crowd, and for the little mug edit that (imo) really cleaned up that background swirl :)