Celebrate each step you make, no matter how small. Each one is a victory. Please remember that.
Inspiration
Focus on the good
Focus on the good, especially during life’s tough times. Be gentle with yourself and start by recognizing the small things that are good in your life – like your morning coffee/tea, a pretty flower, a moment with a friend. Shifting your attention to the good things may not make your challenges go away, but it will help you get through them.
You never know what someone is going through
You never know what someone is going through. Be kind. You could be the only beauty in their day.
Just breathe
When things get crazy stressful, this is a reminder to myself and to you to just breathe. Take a few minutes every day to inhale calm and exhale stress.
Don’t be so hard on yourself
Take a few minutes every day to compliment yourself and reflect on what you have accomplished, no matter how small. This has always been a tough one for me. I’m still learning to be a little kinder to myself. #mondaymotivation #IChooseBeauty
It is going to be okay
Sometimes very basic words are all you need to make it through the day. When I was in the thick of my depression, I would repeat to myself, “It is going to be okay” over and over.
Train your brain like you exercise your body
When you’re depressed, it takes a lot of work to shift your mind away from negative thinking. Once you start feeling good, don’t make the mistake of stopping those efforts.
To feel good, you must be able to see good
It’s not always easy to see the good. When things are going wrong and life gets tough, of course that’s what you will notice and feel. But if you can get yourself to find just one good thing a day, it will shift your focus, if even for a moment. The more good things you are able to see, the better you will feel about your life.
This too shall pass
Whenever the world comes crashing down around you and you feel like there’s no relief in sight, try repeating the phrase, “This too shall pass…”
Once you stop looking for happiness, you find it
Ever thought to yourself, once I get that amazing job/house/boyfriend etc. then I’ll be happy? What if I told you that the secret to finding that elusive happiness is actually to stop chasing it.
Savor the laughter
It’s inevitable – life is going to hit you with some tough blows, struggles, sadness. That’s life. But there will also be moments of joy. At some point during my therapy, I realized how important it is to really SAVOR the laughter.
3 questions to answer every day
Take just a few minutes to answer these 3 questions every day. It will help you feel good about yourself and your life. I like to write my answers in a journal. It is one of the best exercises I’ve found to train my brain to be positive. Let me know how it works for you!
Keep going, even when you don’t think you can
Ever have times when life throws you one punch after another… after another? You feel so overwhelmed that you don’t know how much more you can take.