Why am I so hard on myself?

Some people always judge themselves harshly, while others are more tolerant of their own faults. Do you punish yourself? Take our quick test by Christophe André and find out how forgiving you are about your own perceived and real shortcomings or errors. read more

But apparently, there were a few more things that I needed to learn about loving and accepting myself. No one is perfect. And we need to accept ourselves as we are, flaws and all. read more

Over at The Huffington Post, author Margie Warrell promotes her new book Brave with an article on why it's so important not to be so hard on yourself:"The negative emotions we create by being overly hard on ourselves not only erode our happiness, but change our physiology. read more

This has caused me to be very confused with myself, and has caused me to be more hard on myself if I wasn’t, “cool.” Currently, I am meditating and trying not to think about how people think about me. read more

Continuing to be hard on yourself doesn't help you. Learning and growing from the experience makes it have meaning. It's natural right after a situation has occurred that you might replay the event over and over again in your head. Your brain wants to figure out why things went wrong. read more