recycling your energy
hello!!! I saw this post about taking the energy you used to hate yourself with and turning it in to confidence,, but when I looked on @catastrofries account I couldn’t find it, so I've just re-typed it into my own account. Enjoy :)
“I took the same energy I used to hate myself and turned it into confidence and that's how you recycle”
step by step on how to do this
1. Become aware of how and when you are tearing yourself down.
2. Now that you can catch yourself doing it, offer counters to the negative talk. A really useful thing @catastrofries read was to talk to yourself almost the way you would a child. Gentle and patient, even when you screw up.
3. Take time to celebrate your small accomplishments. You’ve been attacking yourself for every little mistake. Apply that same favour to the positive things in your life. Did the dishes even though you didn’t want to? Hell yeah! Got up and took a shower? YES!!!! You are taking positive steps to feeling better. Celebrate it.
4. Make a list of things you’re good at/like about yourself. The first time I did this, the only two things in my list were that I liked my hair, and had good friends. It was a start.
5. Don’t beat yourself up if you screw up steps 1-4. It’s counter productive. When I catch myself calling myself stupid for some mistake or other my first response now is: “We don’t talk to ourselves like that anymore. What’s something constructive that could actually help solve the problem.”
