Your Anxiety Toolkit

ONE Day Non-Judgment Challenge Hello and welcome back to Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast.  Today we are talking about an interesting challenge.   You see, recently I was dared to take an entire day to just listen to my body and feel my feelings and sit in peace.  I thought this was a fabulous idea so I shipped my kids and husband away for one day (I never do this BTW) What quickly arose was one thing that was taking the joy out of what could have been a lovely day.  That thing was Self-judgment.  Self-judgment is the thing that kept bringing me out of simply spending the day with myself.  “I should be doing this instead”  “You are being lazy”  “Why did you choose that activity?”  “You have to do it this way because that way is a waste of money”  “You shouldn’t be feeling this way”  “You don’t deserve this”  “Why did you do it that way?”  “Why are you the way you are? Here are just a few of the self-judgment statements we say to ourselves during the day.  When you see it on paper, it sounds so awful.  Yet, these