Freedom from Self-Improvement Day!

I missed this yesterday but think it's such a great idea I'm posting it anyway. I'm trying to come to a place of loving myself while still making positive changes, realzing that we women are ridiculously hard on ourselves and need to be doing lots more self-love and lots less berating, criticizing and general self-hate.

Apparently Jennifer Louden feels the same way as she created this wonderful holiday from self-improvement!

From Jennifer Louden, International Freedom from Self-Improvement Day creator:

"Ever since I learned of International Talk like a Pirate Day (September 19th), I’ve wanted to create a holiday that felt as fun. Sitting in meditation one day, the idea came to me: what if we all collectively gave up on being any different than we are, just for 24 hours? What a perfect holiday for a me to create? After all, I’m the perfect paradox: my mission in life is to help people feel how perfectly okay they are and I constantly struggle with evaluating myself for everything I’m not doing or didn’t do right.

I hope you’ll celebrate with me and invite all your most self-critical and hard working friends to join in. Send a few Freedom From e-coupons, sign our declaration, download our PDF of ideas for celebrating (and send that to your friends too), and post how you are getting into the groove on our special blog. And while you are at it, enjoy our celebrity line-up of short audios to inspire you to slip into the Freedom From mood!

Can you feel the lightness?"

Check out her website and blog and if, like me, you didn't celebrate this yesterday, I encourage you to do so today. There's no time limit on self-love.