Your heart is big enough

This will be short and sweet, and no sugar-coating.

Listen, I know you love your kids. I know you love your spouse and I know you love your parents.

I know family means everything to you. Their happiness, their comfort and their safety is your number one priority.

I know you'll catch a grenade for them, you'll jump in front of a train for them, I know you'll do anything for them... to quote Monsieur Bruno Mars

But…

I also know how overwhelmed you are.

I know you are tired. I know how you long for an extra hour in bed on Saturdays. I know you dream of being told how grateful they are for all you do.

I know how you secretly cry in bed at night, how you wish you'd win a million dollars so you can have the freedom you crave.

I know no one sees how broken you feel. No one sees how desperate you are to heal.

I know how you resent yourself for feeling this way.

I’m here to tell you... I see you, I feel you and I know how it feels.

I have been there and still struggle sometimes to be honest. I know how desperate you are to feel alive again.

The Healing

Let me let you in on a little secret… babe, all that love and care you give to others, you deserve it too.

All that attention you give to others, Sis, you deserve it too.

All the effort you make for others to feel safe, comfortable and loved... you deserve that too.

And most of all... you deserve peace, knowing you are seen, known, and loved.

And so remember, you need to start showing the same love to yourself.

You need to start loving on you, caring for yourself, celebrating yourself and thanking yourself for all you do.

Listen, your heart is big enough to love yourself and still spare plenty for others.

That loving heart of yours can hold so much love. enough to fill the whole world and beyond... so why not give a piece of it to yourself?

You too deserve love... especially from yourself. And when you start truly loving on you, the whole world around you will follow suit.

Give yourself love, receive love, and love love.

Because it's when we love ourselves, we become authentically us. And when we are authentically ourselves, the world around us falls in love with who we are. 

Journaling Prompt:

What 3 things can I do today to start a self-love practice?

Love & light,
Christine

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