You don’t need to change your reality to begin to turn things around, Dear One — just your mind.

Why struggle, when you can trust, Dear One?

Why pretend when you can be yourself?

Why fight when you can accomplish so much more by allowing?

Why be hard on yourself, when you can choose to be loving, caring, nurturing, and supportive of yourself instead?

You can’t stop all hurts from ever reaching you Dear One, but you can stop making them worse for yourself when they do.

There are two ways that you can choose to respond to any situation, Dear One:

• Like the victim of your circumstance
• Like the creator of your circumstance

One defines you as powerless and the other as powerful.

Which are you going to choose to be today?

What is the big deal about saying that something is “impossible”, Dear One?

We’ll tell you.

Once you decide that it’s impossible, once you say it out loud, once you make up your mind and choose to believe this as your truth, it will become your truth.

You can’t stress your way to health, Dear One.

And you can’t force your way to insight, contentment, joy, satisfaction, creativity or clarity either.

Trying to do so will only serve to keep pushing all of these things further away.

Just something to remember if you should find yourself struggling  along the way.

ENJOY your day!

You are not falling short, you are not failing them, you are not failing anyone, Dear Child, when you choose to love you, to respect you, to honor yourself and the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, above all else.

In fact, when you prioritize yourself, you are doing the exact opposite.

When you choose you, Dear Child, you are gaining more of, creating more of, strengthening and expanding the most important thing, the most truly valuable contribution that you will and could ever  make to this world, which is more of you!

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You can choose to be your stories greatest victor, Dear One, or its most tragic victim.

The pen is in your hand.

What’s it going to be?

Write yourself well.

You should know, Dear One, that as soon as you stop feeding it with your thoughts, acknowledging it with your attention, strengthening it with your words, and telling everyone that you can get to listen about how much you wish it wasn’t so, that which no longer serves you, that which you longer want, will begin to go away.

When you choose to ignore your intuition, Dear One, your gut, instincts, hunches or “feelings”, and instead take action based on some other seemingly compelling force in the universe, and things don’t work out, don’t beat yourself up about it.

The truth is that the experience of learning from not doing something can be just as valuable as the experience of learning by doing.

But if you would like to spare yourself from repeated exposure to that particular type of learning experience, pay close attention, remember what it feels like to have to live with the consequences of not trusting yourself, and try not to do it again.

Life is hard enough already, Dear One.

Why add to it by telling yourself that you can’t?

If for no other reason other than the fact that it feels better to do so, today, why not tell yourself that you can instead?

You got this.