My Body, My Lover

My body is beautiful.

The Reality of the Other; The Fallacies Within Expectation.

If someone shows you who they truly are, take your blinders off to see that person as they have presented themselves to you- with their beauty and strength as well as with their tragic fallacies and downfalls. 

This means not seeing them solely just as the potential that lies within them. It does not mean that you don't believe that they will never live up to that potential but to acknowledge to yourself that if they are unwilling to do anything to grow towards that potential, it is not your place to attempt to force them to do so. 

For you to view them from a lens where you see them as the person they could be rather than who they are now means that you hold expectations of them that you expect them to conform to. This is your issue not theirs.

Love Thyself Comes After Know Thyself

'Love yourself'- the flippant answer to solving your life's eternal conundrum.  

For most of us, though by no means all, loving ourselves doesn't come easy.These words are easily dismissed as advice from kitschy self-help books or well-meaning people who seem to have no basis in the reality of what it takes to make ends meet.

What's the point of making ends meet if you're tired all the time or need to escape from who you are to get any peace at all though? That's a life barely lived.This is where your healing journey comes in. What is a healing journey, you ask? It is the rainbow that in stories is said to lead to the pot of gold. 

It requires some cataclysmic storms but is a path laden with adventure, and surprises and transformation. It is not just the path to happiness, it is what enables you to walk happily on the path to your ultimate destination, whatever that may be. It's when you make a commitment to yourself to do the best you can to honour, respect, love and heal yourself on the level of mind, body and spirit. Allow me to elaborate.