Don’t Overcome Your Demons, Make them Your Friends

As kids, we’re told to treat others as we’d like to be treated, but as adults, many of us have trouble extending that “golden rule” to ourselves.

How often do you find yourself thinking, saying, or believing things about yourself that are so unsavory you would certainly never say them to others? What if instead of trying to fight those inner demons, we decided to give them a high five, maybe even a hug?

For a variety of reasons, most of us carry internalized stories about ourselves that d...