How can one feel good about themselves...

Or confident, without feeling arrogant/selfish?

I struggle with this so much. I feel I can never tap into that phrase people use "Take me as I am." Or ever feel I can offer someone something...my mind will not allow me to. It overrides it with You are selfish. Or "Who do you think you are?" That was engrained in me growing up. 😟

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Carissimi · F

When something is ingrained like this, it’s just part of you. I can be very critical of myself, so I tell myself that it’s not my voice that’s berating me, it’s my mother’s that took up living in my brain somewhere, and likes to keep that critical voice alive. If we can see them as echos of the past, and not present day reality, it can at least help us separate the wheat from the chaff, and those people who are taking up space in our psyche.