Welcome to Mary's Cup of Tea, the Self-Love Podcast for Women. I'm your host, Mary Jolkovsky,

an author, speaker, and all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire you

to love yourself. Hello, self-lover. Before we dive into today's podcast episode, I want to make sure you know about my two books on self-love.

If you're struggling with body image or self-acceptance, then I highly recommend you check out my first book, The Gift of Self-Love.

It's a comprehensive workbook to help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to love who you are.

Thousands of people have this book and the five-star reviews are so amazing. They give me so much life,

so I hope that this is something that can help you too. You can get it wherever books are sold by

searching for the gift of self-love or go to my website, maryscup of tea.com slash book.

After releasing the gift of self-love and reading all your positive feedback, I realized that

we really needed something to keep us going every single day. So not a deep dive workbook,

but maybe like a micro dose of self-love in your daily life, which is why I wrote 100 days of self-love.

It's a guided journal with, you guessed it, 100 prompts that cover so many areas of life,

including body, identity, purpose, emotions, mindset, relationships, and more.

So you can really think of it as a metaphorical multivitamin, something to keep you going,

or as I like to say, growing, on your self-love journey. You can get this journal wherever books are

sold as well by searching for 100 days of self-love or go to mary's cup of tea.com slash journal. It's

my mission to share all the self-love tea with you. So I hope that both my books and this podcast can do

just that. A few years ago, I was teaching a class on confidence. This was during the pandemic,

so it was over Zoom. And at the end, we were having a Q&A session. And this girl raises her hand and she's like,

Mary, I don't really struggle with confidence that much because usually I wake up in the morning.

I start my day by getting ready. I do my hair, my makeup. And on those days, I feel great.

I would say that I have confidence. But there are some days when I wake up, I don't know if

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