This is Optimal Living Daily episode 1698, a letter to my younger self by Rosalyn Palmer of

rosalynpomer.com and I'm your narrator Justin Mollick reading you blogs or articles every single

day of the year to help you live a more meaningful life. Today's article is from a brand new author

to the show. I'll tell you about Rosalyn right after the reading. So for now, let's hear our very

first post from her as we optimize your life. A letter to my younger self by RosalynpomerofRosalynpomer.com.

Change in healing only happen when you can come to a sincere and heartfelt appreciation of all

of your life experiences, even the unpleasant and painful ones, and see how they have led you to

being who you are today. To move beyond this will need work. You have to set those life visions

and goals and then work on the inner you. For starters, write a letter to your younger self.

It's really cathartic and can heal an inner part of you that you carry around with you every day.

You can share the wisdom you have today and allow your inner self to know that even the struggles

were not in vain and that you were never alone. Choose a younger you at a time that was difficult.

Be clear about how old the younger you that you are writing to is. Be real and authentic

and drill down to a few really specific lessons or topics that you wish your younger you had known

or felt at a heart level at that time. This is in a shopping list or a way to put pressure on

that former you. Be kind. Imagine that younger you as you would a dearly loved younger member

of your family. Imagine that you are gently holding your younger self by the shoulder as you speak

to them. Use you and the present tense. Here's a letter to my 25 year old self that is in my book

reset written nearly three years ago. At age 25 I was working in Deusbury at a company I didn't

like living alone during the weekend a bed sit and headingly leads with no phone and taking off

the days until I returned to my shared house in London. Increasingly I found that when I got back

to London my friends would have gone away for a fun weekend. The sense of failure and isolation

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