Simone Knego

Oh my gosh, you gained weight again.

You can't control yourself.

What's wrong with you?

Your hair is frizzy.

I mean, constantly just negative things about my appearance until one day my daughter walked in the bathroom.

She was a young teen at the time.

And she said, first of all, you're beautiful.

Second of all, you need to stop.

You're giving me a complex.

How can you expect me to love my body when you don't even like your own?

And that just knocked me back because I didn't realize how much the things I was saying to myself were affecting the people around me.

Like mom, stop.

And I don't think I even realized I was doing it, right?

It was just, it's such, it's part of my routine or it was part of my routine.

Now I do the opposite.

I say all the great things to myself because there is so much science behind it that what we say to ourself is how we live our life, right?

What we say to ourself is what we believe.

And so it's so important that we flip the script.

Yeah.

I mean, I once heard this on a playground where a little kid was trying to copy...