Self-View Exercise (pt. 2): 1. Take a second sheet of paper. 2. List out how you want to think about yourself. 3. Look at your first list and write a thank you letter to the people who inspired you to become who you are 4. Look at your first list and write a letter to the people who fed you damaging ideas. 5. Ask them "why?" Ask them "what happened?" 6. Imagine that they had someone feeding them damaging ideas as a youth... and forgive them.