Sometimes, it is very hard to accept a mistake especially if you are a type A. Perfectionism kills the joy of mistakes. Did I just write “the joy”? Yes. Mistakes are the path to success. They test our limits, personalities, strengths, thoughts and determination. Mistakes help us discover new physical and personality traits, while aiding us to be more in contact with our own selves and those around us.
One of the most common experiences during eating disorder’s recovery is a lapse. This is where the recovering sufferer experiences his or her eating disorder for a very short period of time. Feelings of guilt, failure and fear may arise once the sufferer becomes aware of one’s lapse. As most ED sufferers have a type A personality, they end up sporting feelings of shame due to their mistake and find it hard to accept the fact that mistakes are important experiences during ED recovery.
Mistakes help you understand that you are not made to be perfect, lead a perfect life or be a perfect wife/husband/sister/friend etc... Perfection does not offer improvement. Once you realize and accept the fact that you can perform a mistake, you can move forward. If you keep on pitying or harming yourself over what just had happened, you will be stuck in that moment. You have to get over your past in order to live the present and build a better future.
Do not let your mistakes rule your life. Try to seek ways how you can learn from what you have just experienced in order to improve yourself mentally and physically. Try not to listen to other’s judgement of your mistakes. You and ONLY YOU know your real feelings and thoughts. Do not let other’s opinion or behaviour influence your actions. You have the right to and capability of living and building a better life. If you play it safe, you will regret it later.
Learn, forgive, grow and move on.
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