09/26/2022
The next time you’re being hard on yourself, or you’re full of guilt or shame, ask yourself what expectations you have of yourself.
Then explore where they come from. Often we are holding ourselves to standards that were created by oppressive power structures like patriarchy, standards that tend to be impossible and unrealistic.
Once we can see where our expectations are coming from, we can decide if they truly align with our own values.
You get to decide what matters to you, and what to expect of yourself. And when you set the expectations, you can remove the guilt and shame from the equation.