Introduction:
Have you ever questioned whether you truly deserve to feel good, be healthy, or achieve your desired body? If so, you’re not alone. If you’ve struggled with self-worth, body image issues, or persistent feelings of unworthiness, you’re not alone. Indeed, many of us face these internal battles, which can be incredibly challenging to overcome.
In this blog post, we’ll explore how these feelings of self-doubt and unworthiness can sabotage your efforts to make positive changes in your life. We’ll delve into the vicious cycle of wanting something desperately but feeling incapable of achieving it and how this narrative can undermine your progress. Most importantly, we’ll uncover strategies to build confidence, foster self-kindness, and create a healthier relationship with your body, and discuss actionable steps you can take to break free from this cycle and cultivate a sense of self-worth.
The “Deserving Dilemma” Underpinning Self-Worth
“Do I even deserve to feel good and be healthy?”
“Do I deserve the body I want?”
As a professional coach, I’ve heard these questions countless times over the past decade. Have you ever asked yourself the same?
For those who have long struggled with weight, body image, self-esteem, and eating habits, this self-questioning can feel like a dead-end obstacle. It challenges your sense of innate deserving and self-worth.
The Familiar Cycle of Self-Sabotage
You probably know what actions are needed to achieve your desired changes: planning, meal prepping, eating healthily, tracking your food, exercising, getting enough sleep, waking up early, meditating, etc.
Yet, despite this knowledge, you might find it difficult to implement and stick to these habits for reasons you haven’t figured out yet. This struggle often leaves you feeling disappointment, doubt, shame, frustration, failure, and lack of self-worth.
“Who am I to actually be happy, feel good, and have the body I want? I don’t deserve it. I haven’t worked hard enough for it.”
Does this sound familiar?
When self-sabotage kicks in— late-night sugar cravings, lack of willpower to go to the gym, laziness to wake up early and meditate, procrastination to go to bed early— inevitably, you may feel inherently flawed.
Consequently, you might think, “Something must be wrong with me because I should be able to do this. It’s not that hard. Why can’t I do it?!”
This self-doubt diminishes your belief in yourself, making it even harder to implement lifestyle changes. Any progress made at the start of the week might be undone by Thursday, leaving you back at square one, hoping for a fresh start next week.
This vicious cycle— wanting something so badly, not being able to achieve it, feeling like there’s something inherently wrong with you, and believing you don’t deserve it— ultimately is an incredibly deceptive and damaging self-talk narrative that chips away at your self-worth.
A New Perspective for Greater Self-Worth
I don’t want this narrative to keep you stuck any longer. From personal experience, having suffered from disordered eating, poor body image, and self-hatred for many years before finding resolve in my mid-20s, I know there is another way for you to feel infinite self-worth and reach your goals!
You’re not flawed or broken; nothing needs to be “fixed”! You are already whole and complete, just as you are. Therefore, believe me when I say this: You have what it takes to create a new way of being, eating, and living, and you deserve every one of your desires and every ounce of happiness.
You truly can make the big changes you desire. Creating real sustainability by building a strong inner foundation of belief, worthiness, and unrelenting self-kindness is possible! You can cultivate the most loving, healthy, and harmonious relationship with yourself.
Your Next Step: Join Sacred Body School
If you’re interested in learning more about what’s possible, Sacred Body School might be just the thing for you!
It’s an intimate group learning experience designed to support you in redefining your relationship with your body, healing your relationship with food, implementing healthier habits and routines, and helping you feel good in your body. You’ll learn alongside a community of women walking the same path.
Enrollment is now open! Click here to learn more.