Short reflection: “BUT if I didn’t feel unworthy…”

Lucy Newport • May 12, 2025

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Originally shared as part of Inbox Reflections - my honest, heartfelt emails to support your binge eating recovery as a highly sensitive woman.



Is there a part of you that feels like it needs to hold onto a sense of unworthiness in order to take care of yourself or to grow?

Like, if you didn’t have this drive to prove your worth, you wouldn’t exercise, eat foods that support you or do things that challenge you?

I think lots of us do, but for the most part, this is an unhelpful belief because…


When we value something, we tend to take really good care of it. 


Way more than something we don’t see as worthy. 


And when we truly value ourselves, it’s no different. 


What do you value in your life and therefore take good care of it?

If you saw yourself as truly worthy, how would you treat yourself differently?





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