From Setbacks to Success: April-May Recap

Clare - This Is Still Me♥️
5 min readJun 4, 2024

Hi lovelies,

I’ve been so busy working that I completely missed my April check-in! 😅 To make up for it, this week, you’re getting a two-for-one blog post where I combine updates from both April and May.

What’s New?

The biggest highlight is undoubtedly my business website. I am so proud of what I’ve achieved.

Challenges Overcome

  • Didn’t rush just to tick things off my list.
  • I resisted throwing my laptop out the window when I had spent hours creating my form, only to realise it wouldn’t work.
  • I didn’t give up, even when I thought I had finished everything. Then, the design and the colours looked completely different in the preview, so I had to start all over again.

This whole experience has helped me to realise that some things are worth taking time over, and also, I have stuck two fingers up at that inner critic who tells me I’m a quitter and will never achieve anything, and it feels pretty damn good.

Work aside, I’ve made more positive progress in my therapy sessions. After a particularly bad week, I went into a session tearful and angry, and then the following session was high as a kite. We established that I still found it hard to like myself.

Since then, I have been working hard on this and my self-esteem. I have made some commitments to myself, which I won’t share for now because I have only shared…

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Clare - This Is Still Me♥️

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