You are exactly RIGHT as you are right now!

We are bombarded every day with the hundreds of ways that we are ‘wrong’. Billion dollar industries exist to make sure we don't forget it and buy their stuff to ‘fix it’.
 
Too loud
Too quiet
Too big
Too small
Too old
Too young
Too hairy
Too everything!
 
But what if there's actually nothing wrong with you at all? Seriously? Like nothing. That how you show up in the world is exactly right. 
 
It can be really hard to feel right in a world that likes to point out your ‘flaws’. I'm here to tell you that you ARE right. And I'm also here to encourage you to find yourself right. To start to approve of yourself and all that you do. 
 
Sure you'll make mistakes, but then we all do. Stuff happens that we might have been able to avoid and that we might have wished we could. But if you had avoided it, what else might you have missed out on?
 
To approve of all that you have done and what you want to do next takes some effort. To start the ball rolling you can write down a list of all the phrases that come into your mind when you disapprove of yourself. Then go back over your list and change it to an approving phrase instead. When you then have the disapproving thought, try to notice it, and gently change it to the approving phrase instead. 

Taking the time to do this exercise will dramatically improve your self-talk and your thoughts and feelings about you. 

Because you aren't wrong and you never have been.

Liz Reichard is a Radiance Coach and Qoya dance class teacher. She helps women, and those that identify as female or femme, to get out of their heads and into their bodies. 

www.lizreichard.com.au
www.instagram.com/liztheradicancecoach 

This article was first published in the Riddell Roundup, February 2024