What is your biggest struggle with loving yourself?
What is your biggest struggle with loving yourself? In my case, I don't feel like I'm taking care of my diet and exercise well enough, and I know that I need to. I get so wrapped up and taking care of the house, taking care of my dog, and applying for work from home jobs online that I don't really give my body all that it needs to stay in good physical condition
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:57
And so with that, there comes a lot of second guessing myself at times and sometimes even second guessing his actions in words. And so what I do, because my healing journey is my accountability and no one else's, no one else should have to tiptoe around me. I don't put that responsibility on anyone else to have to tiptoe around me. This is my healing journey. So what I do is I recognize that my feelings are not facts
Eluchianna Olive
@Luchianna · 3:09
So, yeah, loving yourself, it's your right, it's important. It really kind of sets you apart from everybody else because you can't expect people to do for you what you won't do for yourself. And so, yeah, we all struggle with something, we just don't want to admit it. We can't put our finger on it sometimes, but it's easy for people to say, oh, yeah, I'll struggle with that
I mean, my favorite exercise is swimming, but my second favorite is walking. I don't have a place to swim out here where I'm at, but I love to walk. And so, yeah, I've got a treadmill that I've been using, and I think what I might do is I might set a timer and I might walk 15 minutes every hour
Let me start this off by saying that the fact that you acknowledge what it is you need to possibly work on to make yourself feel better shows that you truly do love yourself. Now, the second step is just to take baby steps and tackle one thing little by little. Maybe today you will be drinking more water. Maybe tomorrow you'll be drinking more water and going for it for a little walk
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Mo Houston
@thisisametaphor · 5:00
And it's just one of those experiences that you would you would, of course, never want for anybody. Yet somehow we say that it's okay for ourselves in that moment
Mo Houston
@thisisametaphor · 5:00
It's very exhausting, and it's a relentless turning engine that is looking for some sort of validation that maybe you don't even need. But suddenly you're in the mindset that maybe you're not good enough because there's rejection at every door. Or maybe it's just that you're getting the jobs or you're getting the opportunity and it's just not what you want. Right. Or you're applying for things that you don't really want so you're not actually excited about it
Best of luck on your first day of work. And remember, baby steps for everything you do, whether it is starting to drink water, getting on your treadmill, whatever it is you do, baby steps. Be gentle with yourself and I hope your day is going great. And congratulations once again on your new job
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 2:20
And again, not from a space of oh, hey, of or this is now your responsibility, but more from a space of I trust you with these thoughts, you know what I've been through and some just sharing. When I have this experience with you, I started to go down this path and this is what I had to process through or even if I don't know I'm still walking through how I would do that or what that will look like in an authentic way
Mo Houston
@thisisametaphor · 4:09
And so in this moment of this intersection, to me, that is a huge wall that if you can't work through your own pain to hear, to help them identify theirs, it's our responsibility, like I think you've been saying, to identify what our things are. And sometimes what happens when you seem to be the one that is helping your partner identify what their pain points are? Because that to me is so worrisome because it's like someone doesn't know themselves