How to Build Your Self-Esteem Confidence

"I had been subsisting for so long off of other people's positive validation that when that stream dried up because I had switched jobs, I didn't know how to produce it on my own," she says. "So I became pretty obsessed with increasing my self-esteem confidence and my optimism." She adds: "It's easy to celebrate yourself when good things are happening... But it's a lot harder when it feels like you're just grinding".