Be Nice To Yourself

One of my favorite topics is allowing yourself to start to notice what your thinking is—notice what your habits and behaviors are without judging yourself.

What if we could start speaking to ourselves with kindness and compassion? What if we could start noticing our behaviors without trying to figure out how we got there? That takes a lot of energy, a lot of effort, and oftentimes we wrong ourselves for being where we're at.

Really, we've all done the best we can with the tools we have available, and when we start to learn new tools, sometimes we're hard on ourselves or mean to ourselves because we haven't already done this.

Celebrate what you are doing and not what you haven't done. Give yourself the gracious gift of being nice to yourself. Kindness and compassion goes a long way.

Celebrate what you are doing and not what you haven't done.

If you find you have a hard time being kind and compassionate to yourself, you can start practicing with other people. Speak kindly. Smile. See if you can notice when you're being critical and judgmental, and just notice it with kindness and compassion.

Bring this into your life if you want to, in a kind and compassionate way, or not—it's up to you.