Welcome back to Part 3 of my Self-Love Mini Blog Post Series! Today, we’re diving into something that’s really deep for me: self-acceptance.
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My Journey With Learning How To Accept Myself
It took me a lot of self-judgment and spiraling to finally understand that there’s no such thing as “getting rid of your flaws or imperfections.”
For the longest time, I used to judge myself for having intrusive thoughts, needing validation, and just feeling the way I did. I thought there was something wrong with me and that I was a “fucked up” person.
But through therapy and guidance from a mentor, I realized that there’s no getting rid of uncomfortable thoughts or feelings.
What Self-Acceptance Is Really About
Sure, we can work on ourselves, improve, and heal—but since we’re human, we’re bound to have beautiful AND ugly parts of ourselves. We’re bound to experience uncomfortable thoughts and feelings.
I also learned that the more we fight these uncomfortable things, the more tension we create.
Self-acceptance isn’t about making the discomfort go away. It’s about recognizing and validating the human experience which includes the ups, the downs, and the messiness. It’s also about learning to co-exist with it all.
When we stop fighting with ourselves, things feel a little more manageable.
Self-acceptance means understanding that we will have flaws, imperfections, shadows, demons or whatever you want to call it—and that doesn’t mean something’s wrong with us. . .it just means we are HUMAN.
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