Stop Beating Yourself Up

I recently listened to the Jay Shetty and Mel Robbins podcast featured on her new book: The High 5 Habit. And in a super high level view: it's about how she started high fiving herself in the mirror for 5 days and how it changed her mindset from beating herself down to lifting herself up. I wanted to practice it myself here so here we go..

Thoughts that always creep back into my head when I look at myself in the mirror:

• You need to drink more water
• I can't believe you still haven't cleaned that up
• Why didn't you save up more money

Why is it that we're always focused on the things that we aren't doing well? Rather than showing ourselves self-compassion and figure out the 10 things that we did awesome today.

Like today.. I woke up and got out of bed. I had a good breakfast and drank water.

What is something you're proud of?

The High 5 Method:

Mel Robbins - High 5 yourself every single day

• Stand in the mirror, stop, take the moment and be with yourself
• You will experience one of two things: yearning to high five yourself, desire to be seen, supported and celebrated
  • 2nd thing: you're gonna feel resistance, this is the weirdest thing in the world
  • this resistance: you think about all the things that you've done, wish you could redo, you see a person not worthy of a high five. You resist empowering yourself because you're busy judging yourself.
  • You're bought into the lie that you're in need of some achievement that you need to high five yourself.
• You deserve the high five, you need the high five. You're doing your best, you're trying a little bit harder, and you need encouragement. You're looking for it elsewhere, but you need to start empowering yourself.
• Self worth, self love, self compassion, comes from yourself.
• How are you gonna show up today for yourself? Now high five yourself for it.