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99 LIES ABOUT CONFIDENCE & SELF WORTH: The Beliefs About Your Value, Abilities, and Place in the World That Are Quietly Undermining You and the Truths That Rebuild You. - Softcover

Bob, Marle

 
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Synopsis

Somewhere between childhood and now, you picked up beliefs about your own worth that you never actually chose. A raised eyebrow. A comparison that stuck. A version of "confidence" you were told you either had or didn't. None of it arrived labeled as a lesson, it just settled in quietly until it started sounding like your own voice instead of something you absorbed.

99 Lies About Confidence & Self-Worth names ninety-nine of those beliefs and takes them apart, one at a time, the inner critic you mistake for realism, the comparison you mistake for progress, the perfectionism you mistake for ambition, the people-pleasing you mistake for kindness. Each entry follows the same shape: the lie, why it took hold, and the truth that replaces it, because understanding why a belief made sense at the time is what finally lets you set it down.
Organized into eleven chapters from self-image and the inner critic, through comparison, approval, perfectionism, boundaries, body image, achievement, vulnerability, self-talk, and growth, this is a book built to be read out of order. Start wherever it stings most.

This isn't therapy, and it isn't empty affirmation. It's a clear-eyed, mechanism-based look at how self-worth actually gets built and rebuilt, validating without being saccharine, specific without pretending to diagnose you. Each chapter closes with a short self-test to check what actually landed.

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