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Recognize how you judge yourself. Recognizing your own judgment is important in helping you identify areas where you are overly critical of yourself.[6] Being overly critical is when you create areas or find attributes of yourself that you have unproductive feelings about. These might include shame or disappointment, and these feelings can squash self-acceptance. Start by writing a list of negative thoughts you might have about yourself. For example:
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Recognize how other people’s comments affect you. When other people make comments about us, we often internalize these comments and work them into our opinions about ourselves. If you can figure out the root of your self-judgements, you can start to rethink how you perceive yourself.[7]