I Forgive Myself - Affirmation Series

Today’s affirmation is: I forgive myself.

As I’m recording this it’s the last few hours on the last day of the year. For many of us, this year has been A LOT. It came with some high highs and some really low lows. And when things go bad, the tendency is to treat yourself badly, too. We talk down to ourselves. We bring up past failures. Sometimes, we can be downright mean. It has to stop. It’s time to forgive…not them, you.

In this episode, I'll share an exercise to help you forgive yourself. Grab a piece of paper and a pen or have your phone handy. After listening, please rate the episode, leave comments and share. And if you’d like to show your support or learn from me in other ways, please visit linktr.ee/inspiredmedia1. Until next time, have a great day and an amazing new year.

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Episode Transcript

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Today's affirmation is I forgive myself.Think about this scenario for a moment.
A good friend comes to you andsays, Hey, I really need to
talk to you about my relationship.Every time I make a mistake, they
tell me I'm stupid. They saystuff like, how could you do something
like that? You seriously thought thatwas a good idea. You are obviously

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not as smart as you'd think.And then when I come to them really
excited about a new project, theygo, remember when you said you were
going to finish that other project youwere really excited about, you didn't.
You're probably not going to finish thisnew one either. Why even bother starting
so after hearing that, what advicewould you give your friend? Leave the

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person, ask them why they letsomeone treat them like that in the first
place, Tell them you to servebetter. You wouldn't want your friend to
be in a relationship with someone likethat, and you tell them so.
But what what you tell yourself aboutyour relationship with you? As I'm recording
this, it's the last few hourson the last day of the year.

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For many of us. This yearhas been a lot. It came with
some high highs and some really lowlows, and when things go bad,
our tendency is to treat ourselves muchlike that scenario we just ran through.
We talked down to ourselves. Weget angry about scenarios that aren't even in
our control, like getting caught upin a massive layoff, or getting sick,

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or trusting someone who ended up breakingtheir promise. Stop it. Forgive
yourself. You're not stupid, you'renot incapable of success, You're not broken.
Forgive yourself and that decision you're upsetover. You made it based on
all the information you had available atthe time. Sure you would have done
something different if you knew then whatyou know now, which it didn't.

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You made the best decision you couldat the time. Forgive yourself. With
today's activity, we're going to getspecific about that forgiveness, and I'm going
to give you a couple different waysto do it. You're welcome to listen
through now and then when you havetime, go back and complete them.
The first way is to write thingsdown to journal. And if you don't

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have a formal journal, which Ido highly recommend getting pull out a piece
of paper and get something to writewith. On the first line, write
your name, Comma, I forgiveyou, so for me it would be
Tehiana. I forgive you on thenext lines until you feel finished, right,

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I forgive you four and then finishthe sentence. For example, I
forgive you for calling me names.I forgive you for putting other people's needs
before mine. I forgive you forholding yourself back to keep the peace.
And again continue this until you feellike you have nothing else to write,

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until you feel like you've gotten itall out there, and on the very
last line, simply write your name, Comma, I love you. All
is forgiven. Then go back throughyour paper and read it out loud.
The second way to complete the activityis through mirror work. So for this

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you would find a room with amirror, or you would use the selfie
cam on your device. You lookat yourself, and yes, I know
that might feel a little bit awkwardfor some, but look at yourself,
and we're going to repeat the samethings that we did with the journal writing
exercise, except say them out loud. You're going to look at yourself and

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say your name, I forgive you, and say out loud, one by
one the things you want to forgiveyourself for. And as with the written
exercise. When you're done, sayyour name, I love you. All
is forgiven. There's no timeframe forthis activity, but give yourself at least

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fifteen minutes, and when you're done, mean it. Don't keep carrying it
inside, and know that it's okayif you have to do this activity again
in the future. For most ofus, it's never one and done where
works and progress and that's okay.When we trip up, we have things
like these exercises to go back toto bring us back to center. Before

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we sign off, repeat today's affirmationwith me three times. I forgive myself,
I forgive myself. I forgive myself. If this episode resonated with you,
please let me know in the comments. If you like to show your
support or learn from me in otherways, go to link tree slash inspired

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media one. It's link tr dote slash inspired with the D media and
the number one, and it's alsoin the episode description. Until next time,
have a great day and an amazingnew year.