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You cannot shame or punish yourself into growth and change. Love, care and kindness is what really creates and grows lasting change.
If I have one thing I will grow more of this year, it is the love and care I bring to my body and psyche. For I have learnt that this is what creates good soil in my life, making a mineral rich place for all the seeds that wish to root and grow through me.
As Brené Brown said, “You cannot shame yourself into change, you can only love yourself into evolution.”
Research showed that when shamed, a person would become more violent and angry, to themselves and to the world, but what the shame didn’t make happen was good and lasting change.
It is just a way of strengthening a feeling of disgust and hate we may have learnt to feel towards ourselves, and if we hate ourselves and we are made to feel shameful and unworthy, that part of us will only find ways to push us off the path.
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