Episode #116 You Are Enough

Five Problems

• We are every day confronted with the message that we are not enough, and the loudest voice is often our own.
• The preoccupation with others’ expectations often holds us back from becoming the best version of ourselves.
• In our image obsessed culture, the feeling that we are not enough is often most intrusive in the context of our physical appearance.
• When we believe that we are not enough, we are actually believing a lie.
• It is easier to know intellectually that we are enough than to feel emotionally that we are enough.

Five Principles

• The very thing we are most criticized for might actually be our greatest strength.
• Our unique qualities have an important purpose.
• There has never been anyone else on the planet who is just like us.
• We are not just barely enough, but we are actually more than enough.
• The more we remind ourselves that we are enough, the more energy we have to help others believe that they are enough as well.

Three Practices

• Whenever you feel that you are not enough, consider whether you might be comparing yourself with others.
• Write a list of those characteristics that you most love about yourself, and review it whenever you feel as if you are not enough.
• Develop mantras to respond to yourself in each of those specific areas where you have the tendency to believe you are not enough.

Five Phrases

• “I belong here.”
• “I bring unique gifts to this space.”
• “I am paving the way for others.”
• “I am worthy without accomplishing anything.”
• “I am loved just as I am.”