Do you want to be accepted exactly as you are?
Would you like a life where you are also allowed to be tired, annoyed, sad, angry, irresponsible and forgetful?
How often do you feel like one of the things listed above?
And how often do you choose to hide it from yourself and others?
What are you all doing to yourself where you’re stealing precious time from yourself, where you could be relaxed with exactly what you are at that moment?
The life you have in this body is so very short and at the same time it allows you so many feelings, emotions, joys and pains. When something happens and you try to cover it up, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist anymore. It just means you hid it somewhere in the back of the closet and hope you never find it again.
You’ve certainly found out for yourself that when you find some pain or emotion from the past in the back of your closet of secrets, it doesn’t hurt any less than it hurt back then. You just hid it and forgot for a few days, weeks, months or years that you were experiencing it. When you choose a different life, where you allow yourself to acknowledge what you perceive, what you feel, what hurts and what oppresses you, then your healing can only begin.
When you delve into what you are experiencing, you admit that you have it and only then can you really start to change it.
You are not weak if you allow yourself to go through the pain!ž
You are not a coward when you admit that you are afraid of something!
You are not incompetent when you say that you have too many obligations and you fail to fulfill them all!
You’re not a bad mom when you take time for yourself!
You are not a bad partner or wife when you put yourself first!
That’s when you are brave!
That’s when you are strong!
That’s when you are responsible and capable!
That’s when you teach your kids that every man needs time to take with you!
That's when you recharge your batteries!