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Doing The Work To Change My Mindset Is Giving Me Back My Sanity (and Health).
When we accept that we’re are not perfect and don’t have all the answers, and allow ourselves to believe that someone else may know better, we open our lives to a world of opportunities and growth.
Perhaps the biggest lesson I have learned in my development journey is that to make true lasting changes in life, we need to come from a place of love and self-respect. Like I’ve mentioned in other blogs, I used to focus the majority of my energy in trying to look a certain way which would have me labeled as ‘desirable’. Unfortunately, this led me down some very dark paths that affected my physical and mental health— If you want to learn more about my challenges, check out my blogs on overcoming my food anxiety and dangerous lack of self-esteem.
In my recovery journey, I learned to shift my mindset from ‘I want this body’ to “ I want to feel happy and healthy’, and that shift was monumental in giving me my health and sanity back. My previous mindset was all about managing other people’s perceptions of what they thought about me. But because I am not a mind reader, I was constantly stressed out since I could never figure out if my efforts were working or not. And…
