Don’t wait for the perfect moment to start loving yourself.
Don’t wait for sunshine and rainbows.
Don’t wait for the perfect day, the perfect situation, when you feel more healed or when you feel better.
Don’t wait until you’re less bloated, when you can sit, when you’re prettier, when you lose weight, when you gain weight, when you’re less broken, when you’re less the mirage of who you used to be.
No. Start now. No day will be bright enough, the grass will never green enough. The temperature will never feel warm enough. The rubbing of your skin will never be gentle enough. Just start, and the rest will come with ease. I promise you. I am proof.
You don’t need to be a healed muse in the lake to start stroking your skin, massaging your neck, or passing your fingers through your hair… You just need to just do it, even if it’s in a tiny bedroom or a broken-tiled bathroom. Because at that moment, all that matters is you. You and the connection to yourself. To feel you’re alive, to feel free, to wake up the wild woman you have inside yourself and start to unravel the many layers of trauma.
You’re already wild and free even if it doesn’t seem like your physical world isn’t matching up to your internal world.
Even if you’re the prisoner of your own body.
But if you’re going to be an inmate in a cell (which you won’t be, not forever; as everything is temporary), you may as well make the cell prettier.
Look for the corners of light.
That little jail that you despise is your body, and when you tune into it, it can convert to be the most wonderful landscape. With fresh air and ray beams of light, with a sweet scent taking you back to glorious feelings and memories.
But to get there, we cannot sit in the dark waiting for the storm to pass.
I wish I could remove the clouds for you and open the door, but you’re the only one who has the key.
You’re the only one that can care and love your body strongly enough to break the chains of pain, conditioning, anxiety, depression, and bitter tears.
So break free, my love.
Look at yourself in the mirror and embrace your beauty.
Tell your reflection how incredibly beautiful and gifted it is.
Hug yourself, play music and move with gentleness, or shake your body if that’s what it needs.
Don’t silence your precious voice, speak out loud, hear the powerful words that you articulate, scream if you’re called to do so.
Hum, sing, laugh.
Feel your skin and let your fingers trace your skin with tenderness.
Tell yourself what a marvelous being you are.
Love yourself even if you feel unworthy; especially if you feel unworthy…
You don’t have to eat the world yet, there is no rush.
You don’t have to be the best version of yourself yet, everlasting change does not happen overnight.
Consistency is key.
I want for you to get visualize yourself well; to dream about it, fantasize about it, and bring that image closer and closer because you need to know the woman you’re becoming has an inner knowing an innate ability to heal, and her own unique compass.
Once you know the direction, it’s much easier to follow your heart to get there.
So love yourself deeply, knowing that the place where you are at right now is where you are meant to be and this is not permanent.
Walk every step of the way with your head as high as you can.
We are here to support you. There is a place for you. And even if things seem hopeless and unbearable now, please try even if it’s for just one minute, to embrace yourself with all of you and with all facets of you meeting each other, integrating, and loving each other. Knowing each of them has a purpose.
You’re an incredible creature and you will feel most honoured if you can just look at yourself in the mirror, for brief moments, to discover how amazing your body actually is.
Love it well, with passion, like you’re your most enticing lover, because you are.
I want you to be nature, love, light, paradise, the moon and the stars, the embodiment of the whole universe itself.
You’re powerful, you’re strong, you’re amazing.
Love yourself so hard that your body can’t respond with anything but gratitude.
I know it sounds like so simple, but it’s such an important mindset shift.
It’s not the whole the path, but it gives you the will to walk it.
I love you, I see you. I am here for you.