Speak kindly to yourself

“What is this self inside us, this silent observer,

Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us,

And urge us on to futile activity,

And in the end, judge us still more severely,

For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?”

-- T. S. Eliot


How do you talk to yourself? Would you talk that way to anyone else? Our thoughts create our reality. How do you typically think about yourself? Do you berate yourself for being stupid, sloppy, forgetful or insensitive? Do you watch yourself with interest, respect and compassion? Stay alert to your self-talk and let go of judgments that don’t serve you.

"Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself."-- Nathaniel Branden

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I really can relate to the self-talk. I work daily, sometimes minute by minute to still the poor self-talk. I really liked the quote by Nathaniel Branden. I will refuse to be my own worst enemy by accepting myself just the way I am - warts and all! The warts are just as much a part of who I am as the non-warty parts! Heck, the warty parts of some of the reasons I am who I am!