First up, I’ve just been reading all of this month’s Ask Brooke and want to thank you so much for such value here.

Here’s my question – I feel that I truly like myself “on the inside” and believe I’m capable, loving, generous, smart, creative, bold, principled 🙂 At the exact same time I do not like my “outside self” – I’m not beautiful or slim or athletic or quick-talking or funny or worldly and I feel a huge amount of shame around this (made worse by feeling it “shouldn’t matter”). The result of this is that I’m shy. How can I feel good about all of me, not just the inside — is the thought work I need to do on my opinion of myself or on my relationships with others?