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Forget Resolutions: 5 Ways to Accept Yourself Just the Way You Are

Practice radical self-love in 2019 — because you are f*cking amazing

by Rachel White | COMMENT

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2. Realize That No One Is Perfect We've all had it: waking up with a pit in our stomach (please tell me it's not just me). It's a sinking feeling of regret about something that we said or did the night before. Stop and think. Nobody does everything right all the time and we're probably obsessing over it way more than everyone else. Also, the way we handle it — Do we learn from it? Do we laugh at our mistakes? — says a lot about us as well.

Once, I was on a cruise that I had won through work, with lots of co-workers. On the last day, there was a video playing on a loop on every room's TV featuring highlights from the cruise. One of these "highlights" was me dancing — in my bathing suit, beer in hand — in the hot tub. My phone started vibrating as texts came in. I buried my face in the pillow for 10 minutes. Then watched it a couple more times. Embarrassing, yes. Funny? Also, yes. So when people I didn't know stopped me on my way out, I realized that the way I saw myself was the way they would see me. Embarrassing and pathetic, or the life of the party? I chose life of the party. I laughed at myself so everyone could laugh along with me. It is now one of the funniest stories I tell.

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