Hi friends, welcome back to the show and happy Thursday. We have a week dedicated to Valentine's Day

Spirit, which of course here at Self Care Daily, we have turned into practices of self-love.

What I want to do today is something that might make you a little

bit uncomfortable, but the fact that you're not going to share it with anyone unless you want to

and that this is absolutely a private practice just for you is going to make it a little bit

easier. I want us to sit down. You're going to

grab your notebook and your pen and you're going to start by in writing, zeroing in on all the

things that make you a good person. I want you to have a little bragging session to yourself about yourself

privately in your journal, just sitting down and really focusing on all the things about who you are

that you feel really proud of. The innate goodness that is inside of you, all the ways in how you have

overcome and grown strong and resilient in your life, the unique qualities that you were

born on this earth with that are so beautiful and so special, the things that you deeply appreciate about yourself.

And you might have a little bit of practice doing this in some areas of your life where you can

actually lift yourself up and elevate yourself and talk positively about yourself.

But for a lot of us, this is a really tricky practice because we might

come from a lifetime of talking down on ourselves. So doing the absolute opposite. A lifetime of

focusing on the ways that we feel like we don't measure up, focusing on our flaws, focusing on the

mistakes that we've made, obsessing over how we should be doing

better or how we should look different or act different or live different. We are very conditioned

to focus on and think about and also talk about in public how we're not good enough and the

things that we're not great at and how in a million ways actually we're not good enough at all.

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