Wtf is "showing up for or yourself"

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Just that. I keep seeing this and I don't really know what it means and google isn't helping.

I understanding showing up as in physically turning up. So showing up for a friend would be an odd way of saying turned up at their performance or something.

But "showing up for your self?".

In an ad I saw something along the lines of "Well doen for taking the time to show up for yourself". I don't get it 🙁.

^ sorry I'm talking about the yoga woman there!

But people like her use those sorts of phrases

Nah, showing up for yourself / advocating for yourself isn’t anything to do with religion.

We'll it must be because it implies having something about yourself that's outside of your actual body . It's a belief thing.

My understanding was it meant you should be advocate for yourself and support yourself in your goals. If you want something, make it happen sort of thing!

I think it means holding yourself accountable for things that are beneficial to you alone, so often get sidelined. Like doing yoga or sticking to a diet or going for a run or completing an online course.

Well anyway it's used mostly by Americans so whatever it means they can have it

Holding yourself accountable makes some sense.

But then showing up for friends isn't about holding them accountable is it...

The title of Prince Harry's next book?

What is it?

It's abysmal syntax and grammar, that's what it is.

😂

Well anyway it's used mostly by Americans so whatever it means they can have it

🙄 I’m American and I hadn’t heard it until this thread. I was able to work out what it meant though, unlike you, so theres that. 🇺🇸

Showing up for friends is about being there when they need you - supporting them. Showing up for yourself is about supporting yourself - seizing opportunities, showing your skill set for that promotion or if you are in the depths of depression, yes it may mean getting up, brushing your teeth and getting out of the house. Both are achievement depending on your state of mind at the time and both are providing yourself with what is needed at the time

I was just thinking it sounded very Adriene. I love her, but my god she comes out with some shit sometimes. I prefer the hippy ramblings to the snatches of show tunes, to be fair.

There was s nothing new under the sun—just different ways of expressing it. Must people pose as too world weary to accept that people often coin new phrases, or share old ones, to express something meaningful to themselves?

”showing up for oneself” is used by lots of people to express an idea that is important to them. It has wide latitude and can refer to many different activities but it is based on an older conventional use in which “showing up” is something the individual does for others in a work or social/familial context. Its hard work, entails some sacrifice or cost. By changing the person/organization to oneself the speaker is making an argument for giving the same support/sacrifice usually done for others for oneself.

It’s part of a wider collection of trite phrases most often heard from American influencers.

Others include “your truth” - which as far as I can ascertain simply means your opinion or your perspective, but I suppose that doesn’t sound deep enough.

Also “carving out time/space for yourself” - in other words, spending time doing something for yourself.

And let’s not forget the most irritating one, “lean in”, usually used in a sentence like “lean in to the things you want to resist”.

I absolutely love the Yoga with Adriene videos, she’s a fantastic yoga instructor and seems lovely, but she uses these phrases an awful lot and I just can’t take them seriously!

No but tyou'd be held accountable if you stood them up and didn't show. So by doing something when you promise yourself you will, but there's no one else to hold you to account if you don't do it, you are showing up as you would if you;d made a promise to a friend.