Self love pledge | Borderline & PMDD

Self love pledge

19 Jul 2015 3 Comments

by Li in Borderline Personality Disorder, Distress Tolerance, Emotion regulation, Interpersonal Relationships, Mindfulness, PMDD, Psychology Tags: compassion, emotional regulation, mindfulness, resilience, responsability, self acceptance, self compassion, self love

I take the pledge to

to learn to love myself the way I am, to radically accept my self and work on changing for the better
to fully and unconditionally accept myself
to take responsibility for my life: my health, my body, my success, my failures, my happiness
take responsibility for ALL my emotions
to be determined to work on myself, even on the days when it get’s hard, when I feel like I have no energy or no reason… I will re-read this pledge and remind myself that I am working for MYSELF
I need to work on myself not someone else should work on making me better
I am responsible for getting better
I will be resilient… when life hits me in the face, I will get back, I will bounce back and keep working
I will consciously work on accepting myself and learn to get better
I will practice practice practice:
- mindfulness (how to just be in the moment, how to feel the emotions, ride the wave)
- emotional regulation (feel the emotions, label them, accept them, express them and regulate their expression)
- assertiveness skills
- distress tolerance skills
- gratitude
- compassion
I will learn to accept that sometimes I will screw up… but how else can I practice and learn unless I do. I will keep going

And I will learn to love myself

to love myself the way I am
to accept that I am not perfect
to love my body that way it is
to nourish my body and soul, to grow
to take care of myself
to pamper myself
to be grateful for things in my life, every day
to be understanding, especially to myself
to be compassionate, first of all towards my self
to learn from the things I cannot do
to focus on the things I can do
to accept that some things cannot be changed
to focus and work on the things I can change
to remember that I can only control myself
to be my own friend
to believe in myself

3 Comments (+add yours?)

Kim
Jul 20, 2015 @ 00:53:03

Reblogged this on Renaissance Heart and commented:
I love this post, it’s something I should practice every day! Have a peek!

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~~ emzlee :)
Jul 20, 2015 @ 14:20:52

Reblogged this on Side by Side and commented:
Thanks for this! I should be practicing this. 🙂

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~~ emzlee :)
Jul 20, 2015 @ 14:27:35

Such a wonderful post about Self-love! I reblogged this. 🙂

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