@that_bitch_devan: I didn’t wake up one day and suddenly love myself. I just got really f*cking tired of being mean to myself. So I stopped talking shit about myself. Even as a joke. I stopped saying “sorry” every five seconds when I wasn’t actually sorry. And I stopped explaining my decisions to people who weren’t affected by them. Did these three things magically fix everything? No. But they changed the way I existed in my own life. And eventually, I realized I actually really like myself. I wrote a whole book about learning to trust yourself, believe yourself, and stop letting everyone else have more authority over your life than you do. It’s called Validate Your Damn Self.