We provide trauma-informed care in a safe and tranquil environment using evidence-based practices to heal the mind, body, and spirit. Our residential treatment program for women with addiction and co-occurring mental health diagnoses focuses on you as a human being first and foremost. If you worry about spring cleaning your home, then why not your self-image? Why not take the time to clean out all of the negative thoughts and self-doubts and replace them with self-worth and positive thoughts? At The Ho Tai Way – Recovery For Women, we know that restoring your self-worth is an important part of your healing process after substance abuse. Cleaning out all of the negative thoughts will make way for a powerful, successful new you. Before you worry about spring cleaning your house, think about spring cleaning your self-worth. You deserve to have a self-image that is sparkling clean. Doing the hard work now will pay dividends later, just like taking the time to spring clean your home. Your self-worth will grow as a natural consequence of taking inventory of your self-image and cleaning out the negative thoughts, as well as learning to love and accept yourself in recovery.
As you learn to forgive yourself, you will learn to love yourself, too. Polishing Your Self-WorthĪs you begin to heal in treatment and bring your life back into integrity, you will find that self-acceptance becomes easier. The doubts can be dusted away like negative thoughts, with self-acceptance and affirmations of trust in yourself. The first thought that comes to your mind is usually the correct one, and you will know if this is true. In order for you to honestly believe in yourself and see your sparkling new self-image, you need to trust in yourself. Self-doubt keeps you from believing in your true worth, living your life in complete confidence, and trusting yourself completely. Once you have deep-cleaned the negative thoughts and replaced them with shiny new positive ones, there may still be some lingering self-doubts that are clouding up your self-image. There is no right or wrong way to use positive affirmations just be sure to use them because they can be mighty and life-changing. You can say them aloud at certain times during the day, or all of the above. You can put them in an app on your phone to look at throughout the day. You can write them down and post them somewhere like a bathroom mirror.
One way to challenge negative thoughts is with self-acceptance. Just like stubborn stains, they can be hard to remove. Often, thoughts about our self-image are reinforced and repeated over time. The problem with cleaning negative thoughts out of our minds is that when they are thoughts about ourselves, they are not usually just thoughts that happen once or twice.
Where there is tarnish, stains, exaggeration of flaws, shame, guilt, self-loathing, or other negative thoughts and judgments of yourself, it is time to do some deep cleaning. These and other questions are what you should be asking yourself as you take inventory of your self-image. If you had to create a portrait of yourself based on how you view yourself inside, would it match a photograph of you on the outside? When you are genuinely being fair with yourself, do you see yourself as other people see you? Or do you criticize yourself and embellish your flaws, perceived or actual?
How do you really see yourself? When you talk to yourself in your mind, are you positive and encouraging, or are you negative and disparaging? When others offer you compliments, do you accept them at face value? Or do you immediately negate them in your head? It is that time of year that you spring clean your home and yard, but when was the last time you did some deep cleaning of your self-image? You may not have even realized that what you think about yourself needs cleaning, but when was the last time you checked? You are far more important than what your home and garden look like, and you, too, deserve a sparkling clean self-image.
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