What do you love about yourself? (don't ignore this because you feel like the answer is "nothing"!)
This can be an incredibly hard question to answer, especially when you feel like there's nothing to love about yourself. One time I was feeling really down and someone told me to think of 5 good things that happened that week and I struggled for a long time trying to list 5, but I felt better after I had done so.
So, list 5 things you love about yourself. Take as much time as you need.
Here's my 5 for inspiration:
1. My hair (the curls are great!)
2. I'm "unapologetically myself" (this is something a friend told me a few months ago and it really stuck)
3. My eyes (sure, they're a plain brown, but they're beautiful)
4. My growth mindset (I'm not perfect, and I know I can't be, but I'm always looking to grow and improve who I am)
5. My aesthetic (it doesn't take people long to know skulls and roses are my thing)
How open minded and understanding i can be
1. i'm creative and good at art
2. i'm always willing to help others
3. i do my best to be positive (at least my mom says i'm positive)
4. i find beauty in small things
5. i'm curious and interested in trying out new things
I have the ability to make people laugh even when I'm at my worst
My sense of humor...even if it is a bit dark and screwy....or on other occasions pun filled and awful. Also my creativity (when it wants to exist anyway)
My creativity and love for always trying new things!
My humor, and compassion. I care more than most do, but it opens me up for pain too.
How I'm confident enough to wear what I want and not care what people think most of the time, I go out my way to help anyone who is close to me even strangers, I'm still learning not everyone deserves to be treated with kindness, I am very proud I got help, I know I'm still struggling with my depression but that's ok, I'll do my best everyday to look on the brighter side
I love how I can cry silently right in front of the people who made me miserable, without them even know. It gives me time to break myself down, pieces to pieces.
I also love how I could sleep anytime, anywhere, to solve my internal disputes. Sometimes outside disputes.
I will love myself for how confident, charming, and suave I can be in my writings and imagination in original character when they are not even me in real life.
I can love myself for being lucky enough to be able to find solace in books... Knowing that all is permitted in books.
I think something I love about myself is my creativity and resiliance. Now in particular I am having quite a hard time, and I really don't feel like myself, but I have been chaneling that into my crocheting. I have also been journaling and trying to help myself get better, which I am proud of myself for. I always know that I can recover, even though it might not feel it, I know it.
I love my humor and open mindedness.