Be gentle with yourself. 

Whatever you’re experiencing, whatever you’re going through, whatever you’ve set out to do, be gentle with yourself.

Growth comes from self-acceptance, self-forgiveness…and beginning again from a renewed energy of self-love, confidence and belief in yourself/what you’re setting out to do.

It doesn’t come from the harsh inner critic telling you you’ve somehow missed the mark and aren’t good enough and/or are deemed to fail.

There’s an adage that says “you cannot change what you first do not accept”.

The inability to acknowledge and accept your experience as it is keeps you stuck in the experience, thoughts and emotions.

Frustration is resistance to whatever is occurring in your experience, where resistance compounds the experience (and emotion) by moving it in the opposite direction you desire to move in.

So in times of frustration and self-doubt or any other emotion, thought or belief that’s not serving you, accept that that’s exactly what you’re experiencing in this moment.

This stops the situation from compounding and creates space for the energy to move in a new direction.

Once that space is created through acceptance of what’s occurring, forgive yourself for whatever you’re thinking about yourself …

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