Chronic conditions can make us feel so isolated and misunderstood. Finding ways to build support, build in joy can help us find new meaning and groundedness in life.

Embracing Self-Compassion

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It can be so easy to quickly loose ourselves in motherhood, to have mom become our first identifier. Support yourself in shifting out of that sole identification and into finding more balance in who you are.

Being authentic seems like it should be easy. We aren’t taught how to be ourselves. We are taught how to be what other people need. So we adapt and become like chameleons.

Self-compassion is a hard concept to grasp. There are many schools of thought when it comes to what self-compassion is vs. what it isn’t. The first thing to address is understanding the difference between self-indulgence, self-compassion, and self-pity.

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Making a change in our lives is not as simple as mainstream media would like to make us believe. We can know we need to stop people-pleasing or start setting boundaries. We can know that we should feel good enough about ourselves but still have the voice in the back of our heads that says we aren’t.

We need to learn to move from a place of motivation from criticism to motivation from self-compassion. People use self-criticism as a “motivator.” If we are our own worst critic then we will push ourselves farther. Unfortunately, that’s not the truth and in reality, actually holds us back.

Now that you have been able to create more self-awareness of your mind you can work towards self-compassion and validation to allow a release of the chaos.