Changing minds
There has been a lot of talk lately about the importance of "normalizing changing your mind". I'm not sure who to attribute these words to (tell me if you know!), but I love the sentiment. This was a big lesson for me at one point in my life. I felt that if my views changed it meant I lacked integrity, I felt shame around what I perceived to be inconsistency.
Shame keeps us stuck in cages of our own making without the room to grow and evolve as we learn.
Shame needs silence and the antidote is vulnerability. (Brene Brown taught me well!) In the spirit of vulnerability, here are some things I've changed my mind on in the past 10 years:
My political ideologies 🌱
My views on diets and the way I feed my body 🌱
The role organized religion plays in my life 🌱
How I feel about olives (now pro-olive, but a fairly recent convert) 🌱
My relationship to money 🌱
Let yourself learn, grow, and evolve, and have love for yourself as you do it