And here we are, at the final affirmation of the month. Accepting ourselves. Probably the most important one of them all.

What does it mean to accept ourselves? Don’t we do that daily? Unfortunately, not really. Accepting ourselves means just that, accepting ourselves. The good, the bad, the ugly, those parts we want to keep, those parts we want to change. Simply accepting them.

Simple. HA. Sure it sounds simple, but “simple” has never meant “easy.”

We want to embrace what we think is good about ourselves, and push away what we think is bad. We want to hide all the bad stuff under the bed, or even better, bury it in the backyard.

But what happens when we accept it all? No judgment, no hiding, no shoving, no burying. Just accepting.

Just saying that we are okay, just as we are.

What a radical concept.