👏👏👏 @emilyonlife: “Capitalism and patriarchy and white supremacy and heteronormativity are the co-owners of the Modern Western Culture Factory, which operates 24 hours a day, continuously devising new and insidious ways to condition us to the belief that we are not enough. There are trillions of dollars being made on our fruitless and endless attempts to shop and diet and straighten and please our way into an impossible future version of ourselves that we feel deserves our love and acceptance. And if we’re distracted with self-hatred, doubt, and fear, we’re diluting our own power and motivation to change and challenge their systems. ▪️ So yeah— if loving yourself feels weird and uncomfortable, OF COURSE IT DOES. You’re fighting decades of cultural messaging— not to mention what messages you may have internalized from your family and friends and people in your seventh grade math class (who are all also reacting to the same cultural messaging). It feeling uncomfortable and hard doesn’t mean you’re bad at it. It doesn’t mean you can’t do it. And it sure as shit doesn’t mean you don’t deserve it. Keep going, one thought at a time, one small act at a time. Undoing all that conditioning takes time and repetition. You’re doing great.” #loveyourself #iweigh #howtoloveyourself #selfhealers #youareenough