Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Today's episode is all about healing your past. Our past is what made us into who we are today

but that doesn't mean avoiding it is ever the proper solution.

Healing past trauma can be extremely transformational for so many people and I invite you to give

yourself grace and find healing today. I think that most of us are not taught how to love ourselves just for being alive.

For existing.

for existing, thank you.

It's the same thing with happiness, like you're chasing it

and you think that if you achieve something,

you're going to get it.

And you also, or at least I felt the most loved

when I was little when I was achieving something

and you know I think that most parents kind of fall into this camp and it's really

interesting to write a

book about this and sort of trace back how we go from being little teeny babies

that would crawl up to a mirror and put our hands up and I kiss ourselves and love the sight of ourselves

to being a self-loathing adult that stands in front of a mirror and either ignores or

criticizes your very existence.

And I believe that a lot of this has to do with the fact

that so much of what you learn as a kid is if you do what I tell you to do then I'll like you then I'll love

you and so much of your existence becomes complying fitting, not making people angry. You learn how to sort of go in and out of spaces,

belong to groups, make sure people like you, and you stop focusing on how you were born which is looking in a mirror and liking

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