Do You Owe Yourself an Apology?
We apologize to others much more easily than to ourselves
I’m very good at apologizing to others. So good, in fact, that I often apologize even for things that don’t require an apology or things that aren’t my fault. I’m guessing that you may be the same.
We offer others so many apologies: for things we do, for things we don’t do, for things they think we did or didn’t do. But what about yourself? Do you owe yourself an apology for the things you haven’t done for yourself or have done to yourself?
I woke up one day and realized that I owed myself a huge apology. Several, actually.
I needed to apologize to myself for all the bad relationships I’d stayed in even after realizing they were bad relationships with partners who weren’t right for me, toxic, or even abusive.
I owed myself an apology for all the negative self-talk constantly running through my head, the horrible things I said and thought about myself. For the way I chipped away at my confidence and self-esteem until there was pretty much nothing left of either of them.
I needed to apologize for clinging to every mistake I’d ever made, piling them up like rocks to throw at myself every time I made a new mistake. Reliving them every night as I’d lie in bed trying to…
