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Your self-acceptance starter kit
Three intriguing exercises to try.
This article is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a newsletter about clarity, intention, and useful tips for creating more meaning in your life that goes out every Sunday morning. Subscribe here. I am also a coach who works with sensitive people so they can stop second-guessing, make decisions confidently and live the life they’ve always dreamed of. You can learn more about working with me here.
How to, you know, actually start this whole self-acceptance thing.
Happy Sunday, Soothers. Self-acceptance! Self-self, acceptance! We all KNOW self-acceptance and self-compassion are keys to improving our lives, our mental health, our self-love, all the good things in our life. But how do we actually, like… begin accepting ourselves?
That’s what I’m going to tackle today, giving you a few tangible and actionable exercises and steps you can begin to put into practice. Self-acceptance and self-compassion are so wonderful when you’re able to embody them but 1. they are so vague sometimes as to feel meaningless, like, what does it even mean to accept yourself, what does that actually LOOK like? and 2. society is super invested in us literally hating ourselves, while at the same time paying a lot of lip service to…
