This year made me appreciate the sunflower more and how I can be more like a sunflower 🌻
🌻growing where I’m planted
☀️keeping my face to the sun and back to the shadows.
☀️even in the darkest days I can stand tall and find the sun.
All in Self-Love
How exercise is an act of Self-Love.
Something is BETTER than nothing. So if you have a bad day physically or mentally. Do just five minutes or one minute of activity. It helps and if you were like me and think what good is a minute of activity. Remember something my Doctor told me. What good is zero minutes doing for you?!!! She told me that 14 years ago and they keep ringing in my ear to this day.
Fall 7 Times Get Up 8
Make sure to get up one more time then you fell and you will get to the finish line. It isn’t a matter of IF you will fall, it’s WHEN.
Falling off one day happens to the best of us but when we make sure to get right back up then we can still keep going without losing our momentum.
You Grow Through What You Go Through
I learned the power of allowing space for feeling grief, disappointment, and validating those feelings. I had to do that first or I would not be able to move to the next steps of acceptance, reframing how I looked at my situation, gratitude, and ultimately peace.
The Power of Perspective in Times of Struggle
When I first had my son I was beyond blown away at how little I could do besides take care of him. I found myself saying many times I did “nothing” today based on the state of how my home looked. But I am thankful that a good friend of mine helped me gain perspective. She reminded me of all the things I do to keep my son alive. Things that are easy to minimize.
Are You Making These 3 Mistakes When You Rest During a Flare-Up?
It’s not hard to sit myself down when I am in pain or exhausted. But, even though I am physically still, do you know what doesn’t stop? My brain.Can you relate? I have learned throughout the years that even though I may be conserving my physical energy with rest I was not conserving my mental and emotional energy with the thoughts I was thinking or the shame I felt because I could not do what I set out to.
When You Are Tired Learn to Rest Not Quit.
If you are a chronic warrior like me can you relate to how frustrating it is to know your limitations but still “forget” and pay dearly for them. I get so upset when others don’t “get” my struggle with these conditions and yet here I am forgetting to plan rest and recovery.
How to Deal With Overwhelm
The compassionate lesson I learned this week was that compassionate practices are not one and done. They are rinse and repeat.
How to Overcome Insecurities With Self-Love
It takes effort to not allow those lies to be our truth. I want you to see that I have not “arrived”, I am not a guru that knows it all. I struggle with the very things I encourage you not to do.
Me In The Middle
In the middle, you stop being who you were and you practice being who you want to be
What does Self-Love mean to me?
I had a lot of myths of what self-love is. I thought self-love meant that I would like and love myself all the time. I wouldn’t have a negative thought about myself or I wouldn’t beat up on myself.