What if we decided to stop being harsh and judgmental of ourselves?

What if we decided to meet ourselves with compassion and understanding?

What if we decided to believe we are enough just as we are?

What if we decided to believe we are loved just as we are?

We decide. We have that power. We have the ability to choose the thoughts we think. The thoughts we think generate the emotions we feel.

With our thoughts we decide what we make our emotions mean. With our thoughts we decide what we make what someone said mean. With our thoughts we make ourselves a victim to our life or we take responsibility for our life.

We can choose to recognize our perfectionist tendencies, be aware of our thinking, then decide to be willing to allow things to not perfect. And be okay because things can never be perfect.

We can choose to love our life as is. We can choose to see it as good.

We can choose to let go of worrying about what other people think because we actually cannot control what other people think. And we can choose to be okay with ourselves no matter what other people think.

We can choose to do the best we can and accept ourselves knowing we did the best we could.

We can choose to recognize our need-to-know things, be aware of our thinking, then decide to be willing to not know things. And be okay because we cannot know everything.

We can choose to recognize our need to be right, be aware of our thinking, then decide to be willing to be wrong. And be okay because there are multiple ways of viewing things and two things can be true.

We practice choosing our thoughts. We practice deciding what we want our life to be. We practice deciding how we want to show up in our life. Then we live into that. And we practice self-compassion when we mess up or fall back into old habits.

We practice accepting ourselves just as we are. We practice being okay with all of our emotions. We practice living into our full humanity.

We decide to think, act, and believe, as if we were, until we become.

We decide to intentionally choose our thoughts, the stories we tell ourselves in our head, and we practice telling ourselves the new good Truth story until we believe, until we feel it is true.

We decide to integrate all the parts of us; the good and the bad, the true self and the false self. We choose to believe God made us and what He made is good. We choose to believe He gave us all our emotions, all our tendencies, and His power in us can help us live a more integrated life accepting all of our humanness.

Too often we are making ourselves miserable by thinking we should be different, better, further along. We add to our pain by thinking we should not have negative feelings. We add to our angst when we think this shouldn’t be happening.

We must accept this is where I am, and this is the way it should be because this is how it is.

We TRUST that God is in control. We TRUST that God is working all things together for our good. We TRUST that life is rigged in our favor. We TRUST that all shall be well, eventually. We TRUST that nothing has gone wrong. We TRUST that God waste nothing. We TRUST that God is with us and for us and ahead of us.

We practice trusting! Over and over and over again. When our brain offers us unhelpful, not beneficial thoughts, we gently, kindly, firmly, return our thoughts to TRUTH!

We decide.

We decide to treat ourselves with compassion. We decide to get curious about our feelings and what that feeling might be telling us we need.

We decide to believe we are enough. And we practice believing we are enough until we believe.

We decide to believe we are loved. And we practice believing we are loved until we believe.

We choose to acknowledge and validate ourselves as we trust and believe in God’s goodness and grace.

You are loved!

You are enough!

Keep practicing believing! And asking God to help you believe!