Talking about some of the rules I've deliberately made for myself that help me.

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A list of 20+ things that I like about myself. Celebrating myself for this amazing growth.

Celebrating myself for choosing to believe in myself instead of wallowing the day away. 

Briefly documenting the progress of going from attempting to unalive myself, to being angry and jealous of a beloved friend who succeeded, to genuinely crying bc of being so happy to simply be alive.

Taking a moment to acknowledge and celebrate my progress, and getting distracted as usual lol. 

I'm already amazed at the changes I'm noticing in myself just by asking myself "What's the best that can happen from believing in myself?" 

Kyle Cease teaches a self acceptance exercise of adding "and I love that" to statements acknowledging feelings. I was feeling anxious. So I decided to process that by going through this exercise on the podcast instead of in my journal.

Acknowledging my messy perfect imperfection of being me.

Learning that there is always and will always be love for me is a long journey; and I'm impatient. At least I'm having fun with this.