Earthworm - how brave of you to start that healthy behavior for you!!
One of my sponsors gave me the exercise of "speaking up for myself" by starting with myself ~
The exercise went like this. . .
Everytime I made a negative comment either aloud or in my head about myself ~ I had to speak a positive comment about myself ALOUD!
example:
Often I would say - geez you are so stupid, you forgot to turn the light off in the other room. <--Eek sponsor sez "not allowed to call yourself stupid!!" replace it
Then I had to say . . .
What a brillant Idea - "you left the light on, you get to walk back in the other room and get extra exercise for the day"
yes she actually did make me do those kinds of things, seems silly but it made me very aware of the negativity I gave myself continually during the day ~
Hard to try to get others to respect you, when you don't respect yourself ~
Just my e, s, h
PINK HUGS,
Rita