How to Change Your Life This Summer

The idea of changing your life can sound impossible. It often seems like participating in death-defying leaps of faith or experiencing an event that can only be seen in movies. However, changing your life is easier than you think. There are steps you take this summer that will have positive, long-lasting effects for years to come.

1) Accept the desire to change.

To truly change your life, you must accept the desire to change. You may have been through trauma in your life that you never allowed yourself to process. Or maybe you are experiencing such a level of stress right now you can't handle the day-to-day very well anymore. Right now, immediately, accept that you want to change your situation. To take a healthy step forward, you must do the work in rewriting your story. I can help you with that.

2) Get rid of negative thinking.

What is your inner dialogue? How do you process the world? Pay attention to your thoughts and how you speak to yourself because it shapes how we experience the world and how we see ourselves. Yet, if you have experienced hurt and pain, merely forcing yourself not to think a certain way doesn't work. Begin by showing love to yourself and identify where the negative thinking originated. You may want to start journaling and write down these thoughts as they come into your mind. Ask yourself if the negative thought is true and begin a loving relationship with the hurt part of you that embraces this thinking.

3) Cut down on social media.

Now more than ever, social media lead to a downward spiral of negative, critical thinking. How often do you look at social media and begin thinking terribly about yourself? How many times on social media do you compare your life to others? This summer reduce how much time you spend on social media. Give yourself a certain time limit if you must use it. Studies have shown that by reducing your time on social media, you are improving your overall mental health and wellbeing. By the end of the summer, you may not want to return at all.

Changing your life sounds like a big idea. It seems almost impossible. But the right type of change happens within. It isn't about the exterior, but the interior. In fact, by learning how to change yourself on the inside, you'll feel better about yourself on the outside too. Now more than ever, as we look at the world around us, we must begin to embrace that healing needs to start – and that leads to the best kind of change. Begin it today with me.