I read a story written by a nice lady who confessed that she gained weight during the lockdown, and she doesn’t care about it. I found the topic intriguing, so I decided to write about it because while reading it, I realized that we’re in danger of putting all the bad habits that we recently built — and, I agree to call it like this — on the exceptional times, we’re living.
Fortunately for Li Charmaine Anne, she affords to practice self-compassion because she has a balanced lifestyle (the extra details she provided in response to my comments clarified the context). However, not everyone that does this is in the same situation. Therefore, please take this road with caution since this excuse may draw a fine line between compassion and unhealthy gratification.
I’m also practising self-compassion. As much of a broken record this must sound like by now, I will say it again: we are not living in normal times. Therefore, why should we hold ourselves up to normal standards?
