Ask Polly: How Do I Stop Punishing Myself For Being Human?
Heather Havrilesky
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Yes. Exactly this. And a reminder that this is a practice. Some days you’ll feel it, that compassion, that deep understanding that what you are is perfectly enough, and other days you’ll be so lost in your own shit that you’ll feel like you’re back at square one. It’s OK if it takes time for it to sink in, weeks and weeks of waking up and trying to make space for the little kid inside you who wants your love. You start to trust yourself enough to be compassionate consistently eventually.