It's Us

I saw this image on Facebook this morning and felt the call to write a little something.

We all want this, right? Someone to love us for our real, messy, hard selves. Someone to accept who we truly are. Someone who can handle the whole truth.

Our kids want and need it, too.

The someone we're looking for is us. You are the one who needs to love yourself for the  person that you are, even when you're messy. Can you do it? Will you practice it with me? A simple practice of noticing a messy part of yourself, imagining it as a baby, and holding that baby with love can change your life.

Loving ourselves as we are helps us to heal. Then we can love our kids as they are. And our partners, colleagues, strangers on the road. . . 

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