Final Self Love Task - Shame · The Holistic Dog Grooming Club

Feb 20 (edited) • HGA News & Challenges 📰

Final Self Love Task - Shame

I’m going to be very cheeky and assign you all with one last task before we finish up our Self Love Challenge, and this one is more about

LISTENING

We can naturally default to thinking more about what we eat and how we exercise when it comes to looking after ourselves.

We can easily identify when we are feeling tired, or sad, or happy, or even ANGRY.

But how often do we recognise our more vulnerable traits - those feelings that often have us feeling resentful, jealous, defensive, and perhaps at times, completely ignorant?

In 2022, I came across a book that changed my entire outlook to how I had always coped with adversity - I’d had altercations with various well-known grooming gurus over my unorthodox approach, and it always ended the same: BADLY.

I found neither myself or the other person wanted to admit defeat.

Defeat… I sat with that word for some time. Because after reading the book, I realised that it wasn’t (or at least shouldn’t have been) about winning or losing.

From that point on, I completely changed the way I responded to conflict. I faced my opposition with an open-heart, never assuming that they could teach me nothing.

Since recognising more when my ego is beginning to take over - and being brave enough to face my vulnerabilities with humility and compassion - I’ve had less negativity in my life. I’ve been able to approach potentially confrontational situations a lot more calmly. Criticism has hurt me less, and I’ve grown a whole lot more for it.

Because growth starts from within, right?

We are all learning, making mistakes, making progress and, at times, taking 10 steps back.

And that’s ok.

I would love for you to all stop and take 20 minutes to listen to the person behind that life-changing book.

After, let me know what you got from it 👇

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