Learn to forgive yourself 🫶✨

Forgiving yourself is the first step to truly healing and allowing yourself to make progress in becoming your best self. You cannot change the past, but you can actively make choices to correct your mistakes in the present. If you choose to let the past define your future, you will never learn or grow. Growth begins the moment you make amends and choose to let go. Acknowledge your mistakes, learn from them, and remember holding onto guilt only keeps you stuck.

I struggled with letting go of my past. In the darkest period of my life, I made mistakes that would hurt the person I cared about the most. Since then, they have forgiven me, but it had been a struggle to forgive myself. I kept obsessing over my mistake and feeling an immense amount of guilt despite the fact that I was aware that my circumstances were not the best. It wasn’t until I sat down and did some inflection that I realized I was letting those mistakes define my character. I had no plans in repeating the mistakes I had made and I was truly remorseful. The fact was, they had already forgiven me but I was unwilling to forgive myself. I learned that it wasn’t until I had let go, learned from them, and done the work to heal that I could give myself a chance at improvement.

Since then, I have made a profound amount of change in my life. I no longer align with my past mistakes and have come to understand that I am no longer that person I used to be, because simply, I no longer align with her. Though the road is still long and I am still on the journey to fully learn to trust myself again, I have come far.

I am writing this for those that may of made similar mistakes that I have, or have done something they are not proud of. Seek forgiveness, and then, forgive yourself. You cannot learn from your mistake if you do not take steps to move on from it. A horrible choice or bad judgement doesn’t define your character unless you allow it. LEARN, FORGIVE, and HEAL. Make steps to create a bridge between the old you and the new you, and then burn it to the ground.

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