Hi, my circumstances are that I was not adequately nurtured by my parents and as soon as I had a child of my own I became mentally unwell and very stressed, which went on for a long time.

Years later, I am trying to recover the best I can and I am looking for strategies on how to psychologically support myself - I guess perhaps its connected with having self-parenting strategies for helping out with self-esteem, motivation, dealing with emotions and thoughts etc.

Does anyone have any tips for key things that would help me grow in being able to psychologically support myself? I was challenged when someone told me that this is the area that I need to focus on and I'm not really sure where to begin - I tend to look to social connections for support and to share issues with, which I guess could be one reason why I've been so stuck as I haven't really devised healthy self-care strategies. One key issue has been using eating as a coping mechanism or sleep and I wasn't allowed to express anger growing up.