Dr. Shadé Zahrai
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If you don't feel like you're enough, tell yourself, I'm enough every morning.
Yep.
Now...
That doesn't work if you struggle with self-acceptance.
Research shows us that if you struggle with self-acceptance and self-esteem, using positive affirmations backfires and makes you feel worse.
Why?
Because it contradicts how you see yourself.
And there's a part of your brain, your mind that goes, nah, you're faking it.
And you can become even more self-critical.
Wow.
Wow.
So what do we do instead?
That's not to say the positive affirmations.
to use a self-affirming, growth-oriented statement instead.
That's a mouthful.
In simple, simple terms, it's simply don't lie to yourself.
Just flip it into something that's growth-minded.
For example.
Yes.
One of the areas that lack of self-acceptance shows up in is this belief of I'm boring.