How I came to love and approve of myself with loving, powerful and positive self talk

For many years, how I spoke to others was so much more loving and patient than how I spoke to myself...

While on the outside I was kind and warm, on the inside I constantly blamed myself for every mistake and criticized my every fault. I bullied myself with inner words. To deal with this barrage of self-abuse, I drowned out my inner voices with constant noise and distractions. If there were kind and loving voices inside I couldn’t even hear them. Meanwhile, nothing I had ever achieved on the outside changed how I felt inside.