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John Lewis sale ends 21st July while stocks last hello and welcome to the Therapy Edit Podcast with me psych therapist Anna Martha.

I'll be bringing you weekly 10 minute episodes to encourage and support your emotional well-being.

Hello, I hope you're well today, whatever you're up to.

This episode of the therapy edit, we are going to talk about how to like yourself more.

Now I asked my community over on Instagram to request some topics and somebody wrote in the little box to hate

myself less and I really really wanted to do an episode on how to like ourselves more because I have hated myself

in the past for a lot of my life. I felt very, very, just not enough, not enough for the world, not good enough for anyone around me. I felt very, I don't like an imposter to be honest in my in my

own life. I think it's like the ultimate form of imposter syndrome really isn't it where all of my friendships

sort of my relationships I always had this kind of little sense that,

this little whisper that if they really knew me, then they wouldn't like me. If they really knew me, they wouldn't be

here now. They wouldn't be my friend. They wouldn't love me. They wouldn't care for me.

Which is a massive, massive thing, a massive whisper isn't it?

To be the undercurrent to your life and you might not feel like that. You might feel

perhaps you hear about this self lab and you hear everyone talking about oh you love yourself and actually that feels to you like impossible how can I love myself? I'm not even my own biggest fan. So I really

want to speak to you about that and know that I'm coming from a place of both personal experience, but also so many of the clients have worked with over the years have had a real level of struggling to like themselves at all,

to respect themselves, maybe struggle to respect your needs,

to recognize them to speak them out.

Maybe you find it hard to hold your boundaries because they just get

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