Monday, September 13, 2010

Be A Better Me (You) Challenge-Day 13 ~ Love yourself unconditionally

Yesterday's Be A Better Me (You) Challenge -Day 12 ~ See yourself through your child's eyes
 is not always easy, especially when I feel like a hot mess or am overwhelmed by it all. But if I listen to my children, somehow in their wisdom they see the me I am on the inside. The Me that I have always been and will always be..the beautiful Mess that is me. So, today I am embracing the Me that my girls see every time they look at their Mommy, its probably very much like the best versions of them that I see every time I lay eyes on their small little perfection. Hope you are embracing the awesome you that your children know you are; because I think kids have special powers they can see the real us....even if we forget what that person looks like.

Today's Be A Better Me (You) Challenge - Day 13~ Love yourself unconditionally. It's exactly what it sounds like. We have to learn to stop putting ourselves down and comparing ourselves to some kind of unrealistic standard..that doesn't exist. We need to take yet another lesson from our kids and love ourselves the way they love us; the way we love them.  No one is perfect, that is a fact. What we must strive for is to be our best selves. I have always been my hardest critic. I'm too fat. My skin is flawed.I have too many freckles. I'm not tan enough. My hair is not perfect enough. My smile is not white enough. My clothes are not right. I should be doing more with my life. I don't have a career worth mentioning. I am not a good enough daughter, sister, Mother, wife, friend. Its always something.  I always feel like I fall short.You know why? Because the standard is impossible. To meet the standard, every  waking would be needed to acquire the impossible dream there would be no time for real living..loving..laughing. My challenge for you is to love yourself, for who you are..not who you want to be. You deserve to be able to love yourself;no matter the size of your jeans, in spite of your imagined imperfections. You are more than you give yourself credit for. Would you not love your children because they weren't perfect? Of course you would and so should you love yourself. You can never be your best you, if you don't truly embrace the person you are now.

You are worthy of all that life has to offer. You just have to believe that yourself. That is the key to acquiring all that the world has to offer and to, more importantly, enjoying it! Now, tell me how you can make efforts to love yourself unconditionally. This will be the hardest one for me thus far. A little body dysmorphic disorder goes a long way. Please link up!


3 comments:

  1. It's true. I think moms beat themselves up more than any other group on the planet. Not only do we criticize ourselves, we are critical of our choices as parents. I'm gonna have to work really hard on this one today...

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  2. This is a problem that the entire human race has. However, I think more women have it than men. Models and magazines and society have created this image of women that is impossible to live up to and so everyone feels like they fall short. It is very sad. This isn't just a mommy issue. This is a woman, girl issue. This is an excellent point. We all need reminding of this daily.

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  3. I agree with Robin. Thanks for this post. I needed to read it today. I'll link up though I don't understand exactly what I'm supposed to do or what this means.

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