03/16/2023
You need your own love.
It is not the cherry on top of the cake of life. It is the whole damn cake.
You need to take time to heal all those past traumas. No one is going to do it for you. It will be messy and painful and the journey will not be linear but rather it will come in waves and at times it will feel like you will never emerge, your lungs will burn like they are going to explode from holding your breath for so long but you will. You will rise and float and dive and bathe. And you will heal.
You need to take time for the yearnings that make your blood buzz in your veins and your thoughts dance and burst. You need to do as much of what brings you joy, what lights up your eyes like fireworks, as you possibly can. Without doing these things, you will no longer be you. You will be a shadow, a co**se walking around leaving black inky trails. You will be sad and discontent. And you will take it out on everyone around you and yourself.
You need to take time for nothing. Naps and coffee on the deck and sitting at a water's edge with the shoreline licking your toes. You need to take time for hot baths and good books and listening to birdsong before the sun wakes. You need to take time to be. Just freakin' be.
You need to look at yourself in the mirror and love the curves or wrinkles or gray hairs or dimples and all your imperfections because your body and everything it has experienced and endured is worthy of being celebrated. It has carried you here. It is good. It is worthy. It is your holy house.
You need to love yourself.
Talk kindly to yourself.
And see your own magic.
And when you do, you will positively glow.
Xo, M
Image: .m.illustrations
