Learning to LOVE only 3...I, MYSELF and ME!

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi

I am enough.

In all of my forms–mother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, teacher, wife.

I am good enough. I am talented enough. I am confident. I am kind.

I seek knowledge. I show compassion.

I fail. I get back up. I am perfectly imperfect.

I know who I am and what I stand for. I know what I need to change.

I don’t know it all. I can never know it all. I admit when I don’t know.

I know how to forgive. I forgive myself.

Inspired by making it not about ME, but about my PURPOSE, but then realizing that I AM the purpose, I realized I had to learn to love myself first in order to fulfill my purpose! And not just in the superficial sense of self-love, like exercising regularly and watching less TV. It was time to really, fully and wholly love myself–top to bottom, inside and out.To love myself to the point of waking up every morning with a heart overflowing with gratitude for all I was blessed with in life. To love myself unconditionally–quirks, flaws, occasional potty mouth and all. To love myself the way I hoped for someone else to one day love me. Fiercely, and unafraid to show it.

But self-love is a process, one that will never be truly complete. There will always be more I could improve, more I can learn, more kindness I can show to myself and others.

And in the vein of extending that kindness to myself, I constantly need reminding that yes, I am deeply flawed in many ways, but that is what makes me human, and I deserve love anyway.

I am still on the path to loving myself and to knowing and living my truth. I can say in all honesty that I love myself now more than ever, and I know I will come to love myself more deeply in the future.

What’s most important, however, no matter where I am in the process of self-love is to remember…

I am enough. #RECLAIMINGMYTIME #RECLAIMYOURS #P.U.S.H. ( pray until self-love happens)