Self Love
How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.
-Rupi Kaur
I am human and my current instincts on a daily basis are to:
🌻grow, 📚learn, evolve, and become who I am meant to be by the standards of :
THE 1st Love ❤️ of my life, a power greater than me, God.
It is a daily routine and a 24 hour spiritual reprieve that I seek which will keep me Sober. It it the relationships with my family, my friends, my career and the relationship with my mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health.
Something so simple as to live “in the moment”, the 🎁present, the gift from God, seems overwhelming sometimes.
We get stuck and life seems to be unmanageable when we can’t figure it out. At times, we look at all the people, places, and things around us and see what we can blame it on.
The problem here is simple.
Look in the mirror, at the end of the day, that is who you need to talk about this with.
It’s when I stay in unhealthy mental, spiritual, emotional or physical relationships, whether it be family, friends, or work that causes the stand still.
For me, setting boundaries to protect self was so hard for so long.
Why?
Besides living in recovery from abusing substances, I live in recovery from People Pleasing; Ego & Perfectionism.
I looked (past tense) to please everyone around me so maybe, just maybe they would love, like, or even tolerate me.
For what?
As I look back I see the self inflicting wounds that I caused.
Yes, I said self-inflicting.
Wizard of Oz was one of my favorite movies, and still is. Even as a child I heard the famous line from Glenda the Good Witch -
“You Had the Power All Along My Dear”.
Something so simple yet has taken me so long to breathe in and finally breathe out.
I am given the power from MY higher power, God all along to be who I want, do what I want, and set boundaries with those who hold me back indirectly from evolving.
I say indirectly because at the end of the day,
“What we allow will continue”.
Today, and every day, I get to set a daily evolving resolution. #selflove
🩷Loving myself today allows me to recognize If a person, place, or thing causes me anxiety, depression, chaos or confusion, I will promptly recognize and disengage.
I am telling you that self care is up to you.
Self 💕Love is UP to you!
Self care isnt about 👟👟running away, it is about standing up for yourself and not allowing your emotions, your mental, physical or spiritual being be dictated by someone else’s standards.
We are responsible for our own happiness.
A daily reminder for self care is to “stop setting yourself on 🔥fire to keep someone else warm”.
Life doesnt have to be so difficult.
Awake with the attitude of ❤️gratitude and be grateful for what you have and what the day holds for you.
You are alive as you read this and that is ¾ of the battle.
Speak kindly and 🩷 lovingly to yourself.
It is up to us to find the⚖️ balance, 🤓focus, 💓joy and more importantly ☮️peace.
We can not evolve if we dont work on ourselves.
We cant get over the past if we keep looking back and we cant move forward if we are consumed with all the “what if’s”.
Just live, one day at a time. Tell who you see looking back at you in the mirror that you ❤️love them, appreciate them and are going to be good to them.
When our heart, mind and soul is driven by 💕love you can never go wrong.
Self Care today- Love yourself!
