How can I let go of resentment towards my mother for being thin and lose weight myself?
I wanted to answer this question because, even if weight is not everyones issue, resentment and jealousy torture most of us at one time or another.
Jealousy is an indicator that we believe someone else has something that we cannot attain. We may experience jealousy about someones looks, their financial status, their popularity/success, or their personal life. But it all comes down to the belief that we cant have what they have.
Why would we believe this unless we didnt think we were equally deserving? So jealousy helps us recognize that we are feeling unworthy in some way. And unworthiness is the bottom line issue for almost all of us. The good news is that its curable.
To heal it, we have to change the question from, How do I get what so-and-so has? to How do I get that I am worthy? What I talk about in my book, Enough Is Enough!, is that we wont necessarily wake up one morning with a belief in our own worthiness. Like any other belief, it takes repetition and practice to get it.
So how do you let go of resentment towards your mother for being thin and...