love and saying, “i matter.” as hard as it’s going to sound, it’s just to sit there and be quiet. you might need to do this in the morning when everyone’s still sleeping. you might need to do this at night after everyone’s gone to bed. you might do this in the middle of the day if you work outside the home, you might go sit in your car and be like, “why am i so worried about what everyone else thinks or wants?” and ask yourself that. what is it that it feeds in you? and that quiet time is really where the answers are going to start coming 