“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.” ~ Cheryl Strayed
Do you carry around an exaggerated sense of responsibility and self-judgment for something that happened long ago? Is there something in the back of your mind that you need to let go of?
A long-carried burden is just that… a burden. It is time to set it down and carry on.
Today I ask you to offer compassion to your younger self for doing exactly what she was capable of in whatever situation you’re stuck on. She did not have the perspective that you have now. Given what she knew, she did her best. Forgive her the rest.
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year… This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The really difficult realization I came to in making this decision is how very long I have been toting around some heavy feelings for no reason. I didn’t know how to feel that compassion for my past self or how to offer forgiveness to myself and let it go.
What I’d like you to tell your earlier self is that she was enough, just as she was. She should listen to her heart and inner guidance far more than she was doing at the time. She should trust herself in what she knew.
Since I can’t go back and tell myself those things, I will tell them to myself right now. And this time, I’m listening.
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