Recently I was honored to be featured as a Top Life Coaching Expert in the Wikihow 2021 Awards.
We are all about celebrations over here! And here’s why:
In our culture, we are taught to be humble and not brag.
We become so afraid of appearing arrogant, that we often forget to pause and celebrate our own accomplishments. Or even acknowledge them.
Many of us already have our self-worth all tangled up in our accomplishments, and then as soon as we do achieve something, we shrug it off and sprint toward the next thing.
It perpetuates the already harmful belief of never being good enough.
We definitely need to untangle our self-worth from our accomplishments first and foremost.
You are worthy because you are. Period. End of story.
And I think we need to learn to pause and celebrate!
We need to re-learn how to brag.
Most of my mentors are fantastic at this. Special shout out to Mama Gena, Emily Utter, and Julia Wells for modeling this for me early on.
Healthy bragging is not about being better than. It’s not about putting anyone else down. It’s not about having anything to prove.
It’s not about needing other people to perceive you in a certain way.
It’s literally just pausing to celebrate!!
To acknowledge ourselves. To be proud of something.
It’s a way to slow down and bring more pleasure back into your life. It’s a way to calm and regulate your nervous system.
And when you do it in a supportive community, it inspires others.
Some of my favorite facebook groups, text threads with friends, and paid programs are the brag friendly ones where we are all celebrating the absolute shit out of each other!
Bragging doesn’t need to be only about some huge achievement either.
You can brag about all kinds of stuff.
The small stuff, the hard stuff, fears you’re confronting, emotions you’re experiencing, what you’re letting go of…
The point is to allow ourselves to be with it all and to find the joy and the growth in where we are right now.
And to be inspired by each other and learn to cheer other people on (rather than seeing them as competition all the time.)
Obviously I’m a huge fan 🙂
A previous version of me would’ve been afraid to share this top life coach award for fear of being seen as arrogant. Now I can brag about it unapologetically, and it feels simple, clean, and joyful. It helps me own who I am and what I do.
Now it’s your turn. Journal on this or comment below if you want to be witnessed: What are you proud of? What are you celebrating? What are you learning? What’s good with you right now?
Celebrating you!