Thursday, May 24, 2012

Reminder for me

as a reminder to myself that i AM working hard and i AM making progress bc no one is as hard on me as i am on myself. no one.

this is me weeks after having Lia, baby #3




this is me recently:


see my funny little man (baby #2) behind me?

so far to go but so much achieved...yet, i still beat myself up. every day, i tell myself:

you're not good enough
you'll never be like the other moms
your children are going to be ashamed of you
no one can tell how far you've come; therefore, you haven't come far at all

all these thoughts run through my head and sometimes i feel so lonely. even with all of my accomplishments and everything i do, i tell myself it's not enough. i am not good enough.

how, readers, do you break this cycle? how do you celebrate yourself?

here's a start for me. i love that i:

taught myself to jog. it's maybe not that far but for me, it's amazing. when i started, i worked up to about 2k of my 3-4k walk and i'm slowly climbing back up there again now that i'm not pregnant anymore.

work out 3 times a week at the very least



i couldn't come up with anything else but it's a start, right?
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