You're Already Awesome Book

Hi there, I'm Kristi with WTI. Are you your own worst critic? Guilty! If so, you need this book, You're Already Awesome by Alison Faulkner. In this book, she walks you through 12 shifts to help you silence that inner critic in your head and also gives you a very specific method called the TAP method that you can implement right away that I have found helpful. So I want to share with you some of the shifts that have really impacted me. Shift number one, I can wake up to my awesome. You are not your thoughts, you are not your emotions. Ignoring them will keep your focus on them and keep you feeling like garbage. Waking up to the awareness that we are not these thoughts and feelings, robs them of their power and disarms them of their hold on us. Shift number four, how they feel means nothing about me. How they feel means nothing about you. You can't control people's feelings and you can't take everything personally. I tried it for you, it sucks. It really does. But we do have a choice. What we can do is choose a new perspective and then she gives you a whole list of questions to get yourself out of that critical thinking and show yourself some compassion for once. Shift number six, I am exactly where I need to be. Just because it's hard doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. Healing, growing, learning and expanding, they're all messy non-linear and often a painful process. Shift number seven, feeling my feelings sets me free. Feeling your feelings is the opposite of being ruled by them. Feeling your feelings is different from controlling them so you can only feel the right ones. And feeling your feelings does not mean you act on all of them. I believe we all need to exercise a little more self-compassion and in the words of Alison, only you can be you and you are already as awesome as you need to be. And that is our point of view.