Thanks for that - after the 'be nice to yourself' debate yesterday, now it's 'be nice to someone else'! Although it may not be as effective in the long run towards letting go of guilt, being told by someone else that you did ok feels a hell of a lot nicer than just forgiving yourself.

I'm thankful to people like Jillian who remind us that there's something important we've been meaning to do, and just put off, and off, and off... It doesn't really matter whether or not she's a mother: it doesn't take years of parenting to figure out that a lot of mothers never get around to doing something for themselves and that they'd be happier if they did. It just takes someone who cares, and who wants to help. I didn't see her tweet, but I'm just going to act on it in the next 24 hours.