You Deserve Better

Don’t use the word “disgusting” about yourself unless you happened to fall in poop or vomit.
If you feel unwanted, be grateful for realizing and get the heck out of there.
You don’t have to love everything about yourself — no one does — but claim it all.  All of it.  If you have something you can change, change it.  But either way, you’re a legit human being, so claim your space.
Be kind to people, even unkind or wrong people.
Don’t permit people to be unkind to you.
Take risks.  Accept that you’ll make mistakes.
Don’t allow anyone to act like your mistakes are apocalyptic unless they actually are.  Unless you actually, intentionally triggered a series of events that ended life as we know it, it’s literally not the end of the world.  Learn what you can from it and move on.
Don’t accept unsolicited opinions about your life, unless it’s a judge and you’re in her courtroom.
Be gentle, even when you have to do the hard or honest thing.  You just never regret being gentle.
If you feel fear, do listen to it.  We have instincts for a reason, so don’t discount them.  But practice distinguishing good fear (based on instincts or experience) from bad fear (fear of failure or disapproval).
Find your center.  What’s right for me isn’t right for you.  You’ll know when you find it — you’ll taste it.  It will reverberate through your bones.  You’ll know — “This is mine.  This is for me.”
You are as entitled to air, shelter, safety, respect and human kindness as every other human born on this planet.  Claim it.