You Deserve It

Day 262

“Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‘I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.’ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.”

– Joel Osteen

We often say things to ourselves that we wouldn’t say to anyone else; and certainly not to a child.

I’ve written many posts about being kind to others, and about loving yourself, but sometimes we forget to be kind to ourselves, and continue with habitual negative self-talk that’s more damaging than anything anyone else could possibly say or do to us.

Today’s post is a reminder to practice loving yourself. It’s so important to practice, I mean really practice to love ourselves because we’re not good at it.

“Recognize how capable and wonderful you are on the inside and the outside.”

I got an email this morning with this one-and-a-half minute video that left me speechless. Take a look:

And then I came across this article with the following eight kind things you should be telling yourself every day – because you deserve to hear it.  #synchronicity

Practice telling yourself these things every day:

Thank you, thank you, thank you!