It’s the end of the year, which means everyone, myself included, is writing about New Year’s resolutions, change and self-improvement.
Sometimes this stuff can be motivating, inspiring even, but other times, it just feels like an open invitation for shame. That’s why we need to talk about how to love yourself, even as you try to change yourself. How Black-and-White Thinking Prevents Self-Love I struggle with something called “black-or-white thinking.” This is pretty self-explanatory, but basically, my brain tends to skip over nuance and divide things into distinct, overly simplistic categories.
Things are “good” or “bad,” I am “perfect” or “defective,” and there is no in-between. This type of thinking means the entire concept of
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