I’m the shit.
The brilliance is inside.
Everything belongs, even the wobbly bits.
Just say no to nice.
Good girl must die.
Sass is the new chic.
No permission needed. Stop asking.
Defy propriety.
How much f@*#ing affirmation do you need, anyway?
Never underestimate the therapeutic value of a few properly articulated swear words.
Have you ever read Eckhart Tolle’s books, expecially “A New Earth”? I have found it to be very, very helpful, but I have to keep going back to it or I’ll backslide.
Even if you started it and hated it, I recommend you start it again and read the whole thing. What he calls “the ego” and the “pain body” will just kill you unless you learn to look at them for what they are.
I’m sure it takes many years to master it all, but even a few hours can really help temporarily.
Love you.
Kerry
Don’t you just hate advice from me? : )
Kerry
my favorite, how much $*!&^!^$*!ing affirmation do you need, anyway?? & never understimated the therapeutic value of a few properly articulated swear words.
phyllis, these were so good. see you wednesday. two weeks is too long
I honestly don’t get it and would like to.
Are these supposed to be good for someone with low self esteem or are they the “affirmations” that a person with low self esteem says over and over to maintain the low self esteem?
A few seem to be therapeutic, but the rest make no sense to me. What’s up? Is being shit now considered positive?
Please answer me. Don’t make me come down there.
Kerry
Dear Kerry,
These are supremely sarcastic, most of them. Kind of an “I’m sick of telling myself drippy affirmations like ‘I deserve good things.’ Or ‘today is the first day of the rest of your life.’
Some of them are truly things I need to affirm, like ‘good girl must die.’ good only gets you so far. sometimes you gotta kick some ass.
Sorry to confuse you. You haven’t spent as much time in recovery literature or other self-help psycho-babble as I have, I guess.
Even the title is sarcastic, by the way.
…I dare you to come down here
About the only self help psych book I’ve ever read was “A Guide for Rational Living” and it sort of did the trick. Well, that and a lot of pharmaceuticals.
Do you remember the anecdote Ellis provided of his own experience with a patient who was very young and suicidal after breaking up with a boyfriend? He said something like, “Why slit your wrists when you could spend the next 50 years torturing yourself?” I just loved that.
I very much appreciate the explanation.
The only “affirmation” I give myself is, “Don’t. You. Dare!” if I ever want to feel sorry for myself. It has to be said with sufficient viciousness to work, but it does work.
Someday, I will be a part of your life again (if you’ll have me), but I have no way of knowing when that will be.
Kerry