16: The Gifts We Give Ourselves

Welcome my Lovelies! My Birthday is coming up and as I reflect on the last year of my life I open and share. Here I offer the gifts we can give ourselves. These are not the material gifts, these are the emotional, healing and sometimes metaphysical gifts we need on a deeper level.

As I enter the last year of my thirties I am proud of the woman I am. I look and can see all of the good I have brought into the world and into my children's lives. Every step I take forward is with intention and vulnerability and I walk one foot at a time. Even though the inner voice would tell me other wise, I am the thinker of my thoughts. It is me who gets to trust in the process of life, even though the control freak in me strongly discourages me to.

Today I share there are so many different gifts we can give ourselves. We can offer the gift of a grateful heart, the gift of self-compassion, the gift of forgiving ourselves and others. And forgiveness is for you, it is for no one else. Forgiveness is an incredible emotional healer that allows us so much inner freedom. Forgiveness isn't something we need to ask permission for it is something we find inside of ourselves in one breath, one moment of surrendering from holding on to the past.

Another gift I am offering myself as I move into thirty-nine is the gift of unconditional love. This sounds so simple yet so complex. Because usually the love we give ourselves is a conditional love that is given only when we feel we have succeed and all of the other times we go to the opposite end of the spectrum.

I am so grateful to be on this journey and I feel one of the greatest gifts I have given myself is the gift of being me. Just me with no apologies, authentically myself and not care what anyone thinks.

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