I learned something in therapy like a month ish ago and I believe it was called "self-validation" could be wrong. But the idea of this is that when something told to us doesn& #39;t resonate with the image we have with ourselves, we naturally deny that it could possibly be true
but when something told to us does resonate with the image we have with ourselves or lies on a similar truth we paint for ourselves, we are quick to agree and go with it because somebody has agreed with our "truth"
So for me, I grew up being called ugly, fat (when I was
So for me, I grew up being called ugly, fat (when I was
literally a fucking size 0), and an embarrassment to even date and that was the truth that I believed of myself even to this day. Being called pretty is actually really hard for me to hear but I& #39;m trying to believe this