Advocating For Yourself
An Attribute of Self-Love That We Often Forget About
Introduction
In the last few weeks, I’ve rediscovered a concept around self-love and what it means to prioritise myself. This includes establishing boundaries, which much of our media landscape has covered in the last few years, but I wanted to discuss where these types of actions stem from. The idea for this piece came from a podcast that I was listening to where the speaker discussed that what you tolerate in one area will continue to happen overall, which from my experience couldn’t be more true. She goes on to say that tolerance can eventually lead to settling for certain behaviour, because as you allow it to repeat, you eventually become used to it.
So advocating on your own behalf absolutely includes boundary setting, however it also includes a scope of different actions that fall within the same concept umbrella. Self-advocacy regards understanding your own needs, rights and interests, and then clearly and assertively communicating those with whomever it concerns. Knowing ourselves completely (goals, intentions, value, limitations, and more) will help us determine a standard for what we’re inviting into our lives. Tolerance for less, and the continual allowance of doing so, will evolve into a benchmark for our standards overall if we don’t learn to…
