We all judge ourselves at times and often we don’t even realize we’re doing it. It can feel natural to narrate your day with a cruel inner monologue that assesses and judges everything you do as insufficient, just not good enough. We all are our toughest critics and all our self judgement sets us up to feel like the whole world is judging us too. Today, consciously listen to your inner dialogue, to your self talk so that you can hear how hard you are on yourself and how that judgement is stopping you from growing and from having the relationships and the life you desire. Today, listen to your self talk and begin discover the real reasons and the fears that are driving you when you are berating and beating yourself up. Listen to yourself to uncover the lies that are in truth under your self-critical thoughts. Then offer yourself the empathy and the understanding that you want from other people. By becoming your own best friend, your biggest supporter, you will no longer fear judgement from others and no longer need excessive and continual approval from anyone.

Just for today, I release the need to judge and criticize anyone, including myself. We are all living the best way we know how. I monitor my self talk, making certain that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others. I am my own best friend. Other friends may come and go but I am always here with myself. I am safe and I am in the process of making positive changes in every area of my life. All is truly well in my world and everything is working out for my highest good. And so it is.