Step-By-Step Path to Healing

When we act like everything in our life is perfect, especially to our friends, we're not just putting up a front for them, maybe we are also telling ourselves that we're not good enough as we are. If we really felt good about ourselves shouldn’t we be okay with sharing our true selves, including our weaknesses and mistakes. If we feel we're not good enough we may try to show a better version of ourselves. Does this actually make us feel worse about ourselves?