Vol. 3 Issue 16

I hope you enjoyed the holiday with your loved ones. While we shouldn't limit time we spend with our loved ones to the holidays, these times are special and shouldn't be taken for granted. I encourage you to find time this season and throughout the year to spend with the ones you love.

In His service, Chaplain Michelle

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The mission of Real Positive Vibes, RPV, is to help society move toward goodness, finding it within themselves by seeing it in others. RPV is a service of Church Builders Bible Training Center whose mission is to help each person discover their vision for life, find their passion, and focus their purpose. Our beliefs are interdenominational. We are unapologetic about our non-religious Christ-centeredness. Find out more: bibletc.com/vision

Golden Rule in Mirror

If you are anything like me, when you hear a loved one self-deprecating or speaking down to themselves your first instinct is to interrupt and contradict those negative thoughts. It is a natural reaction to want the people we love to see themselves through our eyes and love themselves because we do. But what about ourselves.

Again if you are anything like me, it can feel a lot easier to extend that unconditional love to others than it is to give it back to yourself. That's why this week I wanted to bring up the golden rule: do unto others as you want other to do to you. Simple really if you want people to be kind to you be kind to them. But I think we need to take it a step farther and love ourselves, with that unconditional and fierce love we give to our friends and family. Because not only are you worthy of that kind of love but it is whole lot easier to deal with challenges in you will have to face in life when you are loving yourself rather than drowning yourself in negative and self-destructive talk.

So here's your homework for this week: be kind to yourself. Don't call yourself names or belittle your accomplishments. Don't magnify your mistakes. Give yourself the pep talks you give to your friends. If you are having trouble, try speaking to yourself in the third person. It may sound a little silly at first but it works for me. Bottomline, spend some time building yourself up this week and going forward don't take jabs at yourself even for a joke, its not worth it. You are smart, wonderful and kind and it is time you gave yourself that compliment.

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