Do you ever have those days when it feels like, no matter how much you do, or accomplish, or help … it’s never good enough?

Do you ever feel like you’ll:

• Never spend enough time with the people you love?
• Never have a clean, minimal and organized home?
• Never do enough amazing work?
• Never get that hot, washboard stomach?

Me too.

The guilt of imperfection is an epidemic, sweeping its ugly way through the ranks of women everywhere. If we’re close friends, you’ve probably heard me say, “No self-loathing,” when you get down on yourself. Well, today, I wanted to tell everyone, even myself, because I really believe we need to hear it:

No self-loathing. Got it?

I know we’re pulled in a million directions at once. I know we have families, careers, projects, homes and a weakness for homemade apple pie. But the self-loathing won’t help. It will make us weak, make us lose focus, and worst of all, make us give up.

The world doesn’t any more guilt or self-loathing. It needs a boost, it needs our light, our energy. It needs women that feel strong, ready to make a difference.

It’s time to kill the guilt.

We’ll never be perfect, nobody is, but we can be excellent. So today, I want to ask if you’ll join me in killing the guilt of imperfection. You are not perfect, I am not perfect, but in some way, we are amazing. Do you feel it? I hope so. Someone you know loves all your quirky imperfections. Someone you know wants you to kill the guilt. Be kind to yourself. Try:

Less self-loathing;  more acceptance

Less critical; more compliments

Less doing it all; more doing one thing well

Less counting calories; more counting blessings

Less pinching our belly fat; more pinching ourselves awake from dreams

Less inadequate; more enough

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Special thank you to Jennifer Hogeland for creating the poster. xoxo

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