Self Compassion and Self Care

You’ve been feeling stuck or overwhelmed in one area of life or another. You don’t have the energy anymore to be as productive as you’d like to be, and you find yourself procrastinating more and more. You feel like you should be doing more with your life and you’re so angry or disappointed in yourself for not living up to your full potential. You feel guilty for treating yourself to something nice because you don’t feel like you’ve earned it. You’re able to show up for everyone else in your life, but for some reason, you haven’t been able to show up for yourself. You’re ashamed of yourself because you know you can do better, but you keep finding yourself here. Stuck in a rut. Repeating the same cycle over and over again.

 You were brought up with “tough love”, so that’s what you try to give yourself. After all, it’s all you know. You were taught that hard work and sacrifice are the keys to success, and you can’t stop to enjoy life until you get all the way to the top. You work EXTREMELY hard day after day with hardly any breaks in between. But now, you’re feeling more tired, irritable, and groggy than ever before. You’re not sleeping through the night, you don’t have much of an appetite anymore, and your patience seems to be getting shorter and shorter every day. You’re having a hard time staying motivated, and you’re beating yourself up for having such a hard time. In other words, you’re BURNED OUT.

 When you think about doing something just for yourself, you feel selfish. So you hardly ever do things just for yourself (or by yourself) because it’s more important to do for others. Maybe when you speak to yourself, you use harsh language and criticism because you know that you can take it. Maybe you speak to yourself the same way that you were spoken to as a child.

 You work hard and have goals that you want to accomplish. You are ambitious and determined to be successful and create generational wealth, but at times you feel like an imposter. In turn, you are self critical and extremely hard on yourself because you don’t want to fail. You’ve created wildly unrealistic expectations of yourself and you beat yourself up if you fall short even a little bit. 

If no one has told you before, let me be the first to tell you: you owe it to yourself to be as kind and gracious as you are to others. I know it may seem hard to find balance between taking care of yourself, taking care of others, and accomplishing your goals, but that balance is within your reach.

 If you’re ready to find that balance, contact me today for a free 15 minute phone consultation. It’s time you started feeling like yourself again…or maybe for the first time.