Welcome to the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast. I'm your host, Mary Jilkovsky. I'm an author,

speaker, and all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.

Hi, friends. Today, I wanted to talk about bad days and how to handle them with self-compassion.

I get asked a lot how I remain so positive and just seem to have a relatively good outlook on life.

And of course, there's a lot of factors that are at play here.

Firstly, I think that when you see me on social media or on the podcast, like, I'm definitely

putting my best foot forward, even though I also try to share my lows with you, it just so happens

that the highs are more exciting to share,

and it's a lot easier to show up online when you're feeling good and quite a bit harder when

you're feeling not so good. So take that with a grain of salt, and please don't ever compare your

life or your mood to someone else on social media

because you have no idea. I know from personal experience that one second I can post something

that I'm feeling really good about and then the next second it feels like everything's falling

apart or I just got in a fight with my partner or some

shit just went down, but I'm not going to immediately post about that kind of stuff for, again,

a plethora of reasons. It's a lot more difficult. Sometimes there's privacy concerns. Other times

I'm just not comfortable with it. So keep that in mind when you're observing other people. But I think it's

really, really normal to have bad days. And I think that a lot more people, especially recently,

I feel like bad days happen more often than good ones. So today I wanted to give you a little

pep talk for bad days and give you five tips that might help you overcome these not so great

moments of your life because they are frequent, but hopefully we can

approach them with a good mindset and with lots of self-love. So firstly, I want you to think about

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