Identity & Self-Worth
Identity & Self-Worth
Identity, Confidence and Self-Worth Books
Books for people-pleasing, comparison, imposter feelings, body shame, perfectionism and rebuilding a life that feels like your own.
20 focused booksPDF + EPUB£8.88 each
Identity & Self-Worth
The Fear of Being Ordinary
There is a particular fear that haunts a great many people, often the capable and accomplished ones, and it is rarely spoken aloud, because to name it feels like an admission of something shameful: the fear of being ordinary.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Person Who Does Not Fit In
There is a particular loneliness that can be felt in a room full of people: the sense that everyone else somehow belongs, understands the unspoken rules, fits easily into the shape of things, and that you, alone, do not.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Person Who Needs Validation
There is a particular way of moving through the world in which you are never quite sure you are all right until someone else tells you so.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Person Who Never Feels Like Enough
There is a particular kind of person who can achieve a great deal, be loved by many, do good work and live a good life, and still, underneath it all, carry a quiet and relentless conviction: that they are not enough.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Version of You That You Keep Hiding
There is a version of you that the world sees, and there is a version of you that you keep hidden, and if the gap between them has grown wide enough, you may live with a quiet, particular loneliness: the loneliness of being surrounded by people, and known by none of them.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Weight of Other People’s Expectations
There is a particular kind of tiredness that comes not from doing too much, but from doing too much of what other people want, and if you carry it, you know it goes bone-deep.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Weight of Potential
There is a particular burden carried by people who were told, early and often, that they were full of potential, and it is a strange burden, because it looks from the outside like a gift and feels from the inside like a weight pressing down on the chest: the weight of potential.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
When You Feel Behind in Life
There is a particular kind of quiet anguish that comes from the sense that you are behind, that while everyone else has moved forward into the proper milestones of a life, you have somehow fallen behind on the schedule, and are watching the world pull ahead of you.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Weight of Always Being the Strong One
I want to tell you the ending first, because otherwise you will not make it past chapter three.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
When You Have Lived Someone Else's Life
They told him at about half past two on a Thursday, in a meeting room on the fourth floor.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
When You Are the Strong One
I want to tell you what I think happened to you, in one sentence, before you decide whether to read this.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Shame You Carry
This book is for someone who carries, underneath whatever life they show the world, a quiet and constant sense that they are, at some fundamental level, not enough. If you have ever felt that there is something wrong with you, not with what you did but with who you are, that you must hide your real self because if people saw it they would turn away, then you know the feeling this book is about, and I want you to know from the first page that it is not the truth about you.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Person Who Has Outgrown Everything
Tovah came to her first session with a list, which she had typed.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Comparison Trap
There is a paper from 1984 whose title is also its finding, and it is the best title in psychology: determinants of student self-concept, is it better to be a relatively large fish in a small pond even if you don't learn to swim as well.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The First One to Go
There is a sentence that gets said about certain people, always kindly, usually at a funeral or a promotion, and it is one of the most quietly brutal sentences in the English language.Read about this book →
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The Unlived Life
There is a guitar in his loft and it has been there for nineteen years.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
The Late Diagnosis
She read it in the car park, because she could not wait the eleven minutes to get home.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth
When You Live for Other People
She was, by universal agreement, wonderful at that dinner.Read about this book →
Identity & Self-Worth