Self-help is all about YOU! Helping yourself improve, get over challenges, and become successful. However, it will be the hardest thing you’ll ever do.

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Helping yourself is the most difficult and rewarding thing you can ever do for yourself.
Mikayla Rosabeth.

If you’re reading this, you’ve undergone some of the worst events humans can in this current existence.
This means you’ve gotten back up, refocused your efforts, and decided that there is a different path than what’s been happening for you.
That’s the traits of someone with tenacity, strength, and perseverance if I’ve ever seen it.

When you begin your self-help journey, you’re going to be facing the darkest parts of you.
You’re going to have to pull the strength from inside of you to face the change you’re going to face.
This is known as multiple names in a variety of life beliefs:

Your shadow self: According to Carl Jung, a renowned psychologist, the shadow self is the part of you that you repress, deny, and/or hide from yourself or others. ¹
Your demons: In spiritual texts, the part of yourself that is the darkest portion of your mind is repressed and they’re manifested as demons.
Your demons: In religious texts, demons are spirits that influence a person’s character to be evil or malevolent. ²

When you begin to face the side of you that you’ve always repressed, denied, feared, and hidden from yourself, you WILL experience some pushback from yourself.

Scientifically speaking, the brain has a portion called the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex is the portion of your brain that’s in control of habitual patterns, thoughts, and planning. ³
Simply put, when you begin changing and facing your demons, your shadow, and the parts of yourself you’ve hidden, the prefrontal cortex throws a fit because the natural habitual patterns you’ve formed are being threatened. ⁴

The brain reacts to changing and growing into a new self-help journey through anxiety, fear, and all of the emotions that you’ve already experienced.

Don’t beat yourself up when things get difficult. In the end, remember there is always a new day you can try to get better.
Breathe through the discomfort.
View your shadow or demons as a positive. They’re showing you what you should focus on helping to get better.

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You can choose to become whomever you want. Understanding the hard parts of self-help only leads to a better chance of success.

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