Can you feel the ease in your body and mind after reading those statements?

When we can be ok with ourselves in how we are feeling, we are validating our own experience.

Of course it feels great to be praised and encouraged by a friend, boss, friend, parent, child, spouse...

BUT we seem to live in a world that seeks an unhealthy amount of external validation.

Perhaps we've even forgotten or perhaps we were never really shown how to validate ourselves or told how imperative it is for our well-being.

If we rely on others to validate, encourage and approve of us, we can easily spiral into self doubt, anxiety ...and overtime, depression. We can lose trust in ourselves and doubt our decisions.

What's worse is that if we receive disapproval or criticism, we can question our self-worth, our confidence can plummet and we could find it hard to express our authentic self.

Checking-in with ourselves and allowing ourselves to be exactly as we are in the moment - is the foundation to self acceptance. When you can be loving with yourself and accept yourself - you can

• build your confidence,

• make nourishing and wise decisions,

• take more responsibility for yourself,

• create the life you want,

• understand yourself,

• grow beyond perceived limitations, &

• express your authentic self.

Self acceptance as self validation is a skill,

and so, it becoming proficient requires practice.

So if you tend to allow others to validate you -

or even if you're good at encouraging yourself but would like to create some new change in your life -

I invite you to connect with your authentic self each day this week.

Ask yourself each morning this week:

Next, repeat the "self soothing" statements to reward yourself with loving self acceptance.

There's one more question left to ask ~>
what's the best that can happen?

Sending love,

Heidi

H E I D I L I D H O L M

love life, live love; from the inside out

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