More nightmares, every few weeks, and only more common now I have S. Not sure why that should be except that maybe as I’m learning to trust him I’m stripping myself bare of a lot of things, and my injuries are open to the air once more and it’s like ripping off so many plasters [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Self-Confidence’
February 1, 2009
Flying Out of my Comfort Zone
The one really odd thing is, despite being ostensibly fine, I’m still an incredibly timid person. There are so many things I’m scared to do, so many things I’ll never say, and I don’t have the confidence to believe in myself with regards to anything except that I am fairly intelligent and musical, and a [...]
November 20, 2008
This Has Been Going On For A Long Time Now.
This is an excerpt from my diary from January this year, just to show myself – and everyone else – how long this has been a problem in one form or another. I was unhappy then, and of course the way your brain responds to stress and unhappiness is to shut down, shut things out, [...]
November 18, 2008
Does My Bum Look Big In This?
If your problem is self-esteem, and you’re anything like me, then you’ll love this book by Arabella Weir. It’s the imagined diary of a deeply insecure woman in her thirties, unmarried and unreasonably paranoid about the size of her bottom. It’s fantastically funny, touching and heart-warming. Not necessarily great literature but definitely very good for my [...]
