This week, I want you to spend the whole week feeling bad about yourself, telling yourself that you’re ugly, and asking yourself why you keep messing up.

JUST KIDDING!!

Please, please, please don’t do that. It’s funny, though (or sick), because as awful as it sounds for me to instruct you to do so, so many of us actually do spend our weeks thinking exactly that way.

This week, take one of your most oft-repeated negative thoughts and turn it into a positive affirmation. For example, if you’re feeling ugly, affirm no less than 25 times a day, “I am beautiful!” I don’t care whether or not you believe it right now (though you should believe it). I just want you to say it.

“I am beautiful.” Say it.

Always use the present tense. Make your affirmation related to whatever negative thought is most common in your life. You can write this affirmation or say it to yourself, aloud or internally. Extra points for saying it while looking in the mirror!

Read more about positive affirmations at Soul Food.

Golda is a Holistic Health Counselor who graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Through her fun, simple, stress-free approach, Golda specializes in transforming people's relationships with food and their bodies.

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