“The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.”
- Oprah
Recently I began Gala's Radical Self Love Bootcamp. It is all about loving your life and yourself which I think is an awesome yet surprisingly difficult mission.
For me personally, as someone who is hyper self-critical, this has meant becoming my own best friend and forgiving myself for all the things in the past that I regret. Letting myself have excuses and really believing them.
I think somewhere along the line, we were taught that making excuses for ourselves is pathetic, but I disagree. If you can look at your life without being deluded and say the things a friend would say about your past, it is much easier to see from a positive angle: instead of your life being a sad story where you messed up, it's actually a story of triumph, where you overcame all those bad and hard things, and now, here you are today, so much better for it.
Try looking at your life this way! When I do this, I feel so happy and grateful at how much I have grown and learned, and I am so appreciative that I can be here today celebrating it!!
2 comments:
Wow, is there something in the air? I'm totally on the same page.
I had a moment lately where I heard my inner monologue and thought, "if a friend said that to me, I'd cry, so why am I saying that to myself?" There are definitely ways to be honest to yourself and gentle at the same time.
Haha must be!! It really helps to think of it that way (what a friend would say) when trying to silence your negative self-talk :)
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