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Building your confidence

If you are struggling with your self-confidence, it can be harder to make decisions and positive choices because you don’t feel great about yourself. This can have a negative impact on your mental health and wellbeing and make you feel anxious, low and stressed.

Here you can find factsheets, tips and information, worksheets, videos, apps and local services in Edinburgh on what causes low self-esteem and different ways to boost your confidence.

Let us know what resource works well for you. If you have any other suggestions for our self-help pages, please email ithrive@health-in-mind.org.uk. 

Tips and information

Here you will find tips and information to help build your confidence:

6 ways to boost your self-confidence from Very Well Mind

Improving assertiveness from Centre of Clinical Interventions

’10 tips on how to be more confident’ by Ellie O’Connor in We are the City

Confidence self-help resource from Mind

7 steps to body confidence from Psychology Today

Confidence boosting playlist

Videos

3 tips to boost our confidence from Amy Adkin
The skill of self confidence from Dr. Ivan Joseph at TEDxRyersonU

Useful pages on iThrive Edinburgh

Here are several pages on iThrive Edinburgh that can help you build your confidence:

Low self-esteem

Social anxiety

Positive affirmations

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