Hi everyone. Welcome back to the show and happy Thursday. In honor of this being my birthday week,

we have a week dedicated to celebrating ourselves in different ways. And today, I want to take a little

bit of time for you to focus on a trait

that you have or a part of yourself, a part of who you really are that is worthy of celebration,

something about you that is worthy to celebrate. Something about you that you actually really

want to celebrate. This can be a tricky one because we are sort of taught to not speak or even

think too highly of ourselves. People tend to say even think too highly of ourselves, right? People tend to say,

if you think highly of yourself, you're full of yourself, like that's a bad thing. We're supposed to be,

I don't know, are we supposed to be full of other people or empty of ourselves? It's a really strange

concept, honestly. I think especially as women, we are so taught to play small

and to not take up too much space in this world and definitely to not brag or think too highly of

ourselves, right? And instead, we get to have this very harsh inner critical voice that talks down on us all the time and to us

all the time. And many of us struggle with self-confidence and self-worth. And I want to counter that

today by giving time for a practice to just tune into all the parts about you that you actually

really love. Some ways for you to think really

highly of yourself and really practice thinking highly of yourself, for you to become a little

bit more full of yourself, and for you to find something about yourself that's so worthy of

celebrating. And now, important to note, this thing doesn't have to involve

the work you do for other people. That's usually the lowest, like the lowest hanging fruit where we go.

If this is challenging for us, if we struggle with self-worth, self-confidence, if we struggle with

negative self-talk, then turning it into positive

self-talk can be really difficult. And sometimes the low-hanging fruit is, well, okay, I'm a good

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