💖🤗 5 Day Love Yourself Challenge 🤗💖

------------------🌸------------------- Introduction I have started this challenge on my Fabulous App... Thought I would share it with you all 🤗 Join in if you like! 😍 I will share a post each day with insights and actions. ------------------🌸------------------- 💡 When doubt, shame, or self-criticism overshadow your day, turn on the light of self-compassion to see through the dark. ☁ Let your mind drift over the ways you speak to yourself. ❓What do you say when you succeed❓ ❓When you fail❓ ❓When you face conflict or strong emotions❓ ❤ Notice the tone of your inner voice when making important decisions. ❓How do you talk to yourself❓ If you were to describe your inner voice, is it mostly.. 🤔 Critical and judgmental? 🤗 Mostly kind and accepting? 🤔🤗 A mix of both? ❤ You are connected to a supportive inner voice. Try to transform your response anytime your inner critic speaks up.👮 ------------------🌸------------------- "The revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the adverse messages of a lifetime." Quote by psychologist Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance. ------------------🌸------------------- ❤ Your inner critic can likely be traced back to a few key influences... ~👶 Early experiences receiving criticism or judgment growing up ~👬👭Societal pressures about what you should look like, act like, or achieve, ~👸🤴Or social comparisons on social media or in real life. ❤👤 Your inner critic can fill a crucial role. ~It might protect you from getting hurt 💂 ~Highlight your true values 🕵 ~Help you strive for excellence 👸 ------------------🌸------------------- Psychoanalyst Carl Jung wrote, "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." ------------------🌸------------------- 👤When your inner critic is overshadowing your experience, get curious. Ask it.... ❓What is it you really want me to know here❓ ❓How are you trying to help me❓ 🔮Then invite the lens of self-love to help you decipher the positive intent of your inner critic. 💺 Picture inviting your inner critic in and giving it a comfortable seat and a snack ☕🥐 🗣Listen for its positive intent. 💪If it's trying to protect you, thank it and remind it of how strong you've become since you first heard its voice. It will welcome the update.🎉 ------------------🌸------------------- Founder of humanistic psychology, Carl Rogers described what he called "unconditional positive regard" - accepting the parts you love and the parts you wish would be different and it is key to unlocking your self-love. ------------------🌸------------------- ❤ During this challenge, notice the patterns of your inner critic.👤 ❤ When it overpowers your unconditional positive regard, there's a key strategy to responding to its judgment so you don't become entangled in it. Let it know that neither successes nor failures define you. ❤ You do not live in its conditional reality. ❤ Further strengthen your positive regard by embracing a growth mindset.  ------------------🌸------------------- ❤ Five ways to embrace a growth mindset... ❤ Reframe mistakes as learning experiences ❤ Focus on the effort and not just the outcome ❤ Celebrate small victories ❤ Forgive yourself ❤ Be a compassionate coach 👸 Imagine how your life would change if you showed yourself positive regard and ultimately greater self-love through your triumphs and your struggles.🤴 ------------------🌸------------------- 🌹How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all its beauty? It felt the encouragement of light.☀ Quote by Hafiz. ------------------🌸------------------- ❤🌹It's time to bring the light of self-love into the world and witness yourself bloom. Show yourself love through success and failures. Respond with love.❤🌹

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