Can you do it?
Are you able to dedicate the time and make a commitment to guiding your attitude toward loving yourself more today than you did yesterday?
Easier said, then done, right?
It may require breaking the old records one might replay in their head where the grooves were formed in childhood.
It may require removing the bandages one placed over their still open wounds to treat the injury that has never healed.
Breaking old records and healing old wounds means embracing vulnerability; and embracing vulnerability can be very hard…sometimes it is easier to cling to old messages and familiar wounds because they are what a person knows…
To choose healing…to choose to love oneself more may very well mean to venture into the unknown…to become vulnerable
In US culture, embracing vulnerability is no easy task as many choose to numb their past and numb their present with debt (buying what isn’t needed), weight (eating when not hungry), medication (taking both legal/illegal substances to altar one’s consciousness)…old records playing and old wounds festering are what a person knows and seeks to numb against. But…
What If You Simply Devoted This Year To Loving Yourself More?
It may require embracing courage, compassion, and connection…
Courage to be imperfect and be at peace with imperfection without apology
Compassion to be kind to self first; and then to others
Connection to another as a result of choosing authenticity
Authentic connection begins to break through the numbness a person may have enveloped within to cope; and authentic connection to self and others is to choose to begin taking the path to transformation.
Unapologetic compassion with self is to acknowledge that with every step up the climb one may slide back a few paces on occasion; and that is okay. It takes time to wear a new groove in a new record to be played in our heads.
Tenacious courage is the refusal to quit whenever it feels too hard to make the changes that will bring a person to greater joy and peace.
May you devote this year to loving yourself more so that the world will be a better place because you are helping to make it so through your courage, compassion, and connection.