Use these positive self-talk alternatives in place of self-depreciating statements. When you feel like beating yourself up, instead turn to something more productive and creative: try loving yourself anyway. Rather than calling yourself names, risk curiosity and be willing to look at yourself through the lens of grace.

Meditation is like a mental shower, a cleansing of all the crazed thoughts and hurt feelings. If you need some more peace in your life, here are my favorite online meditation resources.

Read this affirmation for stress-relief if you're having one of those days. If you forgot that you're more powerful than the negative thoughts you think. Also a fact: most of the things you worry about never happen, and if they do happen, you can make it through them.

Self-compassion can be both a grand gesture of acceptance and a small display of respect. With time, the kindness you show yourself starts to encompass everything and permeate everything, including how you treat others.

The popular phrase you have to feel it to heal it is true. You have to be acutely attentive to those acutely painful feelings if you’re going to move forward. Accepting yourself first, before trying to feel better, is the seed of self-love and self-trust that blooms later on down the line.

Read these affirmations for health to focus on the possibility of improvement without downplaying what you’re going through. They’ll help you create a happy, healthy atmosphere so you can heal in your own due time.

If what you've been telling yourself your whole life doesn't serve you anymore, keep reading. This is all about dropping the words you’ve been holding on to and cozying up to something far much more liberating: another possibility.

If you're struggling to find peace of mind, I feel you. I see you. Here are some stress-relief products that've been helping me. This is your reminder: there is hope. There is help. It can take a while to find what works, but something will work.

Long story short, you survived impossible things. No matter how impossible it felt to keep going, you did, because you are a survivor. You're the one who needs to be telling yourself: "I am a survivor." Read this affirmation to keep believing in what you can do.

When your world comes crashing down, you have a chance to do something you couldn’t have done before: rise up. You can only be reborn if you’ve known what it feels like to die inside. Your story might be called “Resilience” or “Hope” or even “Freedom.” It’s the story of the phoenix. If you need an extra spark of hope today, read these phoenix quotes. They’re about you.