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One of my favorite bloggers, Michele Lisenbury Christensen, has a beautiful post on ‘requesting change’:

I’m a requester.

I have made more – and more daring – requests of my husband in the 15 years we’ve been together than some partners make in a lifetime. In the process, I’ve learned a lot about making requests that engender change.

Often, my learning has come from making ridiculous requests that would be difficult for anyone to hear, let alone act upon.

Ooops.

But my dogged determination to keep my life and our relationship evolving has sent me back to the drawing board time and again to reconfigure how I was thinking about the change I wanted and how I talked to him about it.

What’ve I learned the hard way that maybe – prayers flying heavenward as we speak! – you could learn by my baaad example.” Full story at: via How to Ask Your Partner for a Change : The Calm Space.

Rebecca Seed writes:

I am mad at myself. Again. This didn’t go as planned. I lied to myself. I didn’t live my truth. I blew it.

Sound familiar? The self-deprecating tapes that run through your head every time you do what you said you’d never do again? Maybe it’s texting that ex-boyfriend. Caving by sticking your last dollar in the vending machine. Staying out too late with friends when you swore up and down you’d be in yoga class at 7am the next day.

It happens. It’s life. We do our best to practice self-love, so why is it so easy to be hard on ourselves?

For me, as I am about to hit the half way point of my first 200-hour yoga teacher training, I realize I’ve allowed (some of) the bad habits in my life to continue during these intense months. And instead of cutting myself slack for all the amazing hard work I am doing – instead of looking at all I’ve accomplished in five weeks – I’m angry with myself.

I didn’t practice enough. I didn’t ask the barista at Starbucks if the smoothie had milk in it, even though I am newly vegan. And, I poured myself a glass of much-needed wine after a stressful workday. I let the dominoes tumble onto myself.

And when it’s time to gear up for teacher training at the end of the week, I’m mad at myself. Even though I’ve done all my reading and homework. And even though I made it to practice—not every single day, but enough.

Isn’t it time for a little self-forgiveness on my part?  Here’s what I hope to do –and you should, too.” Full story at: Stop Beating Yourself Up. Here’s How..