‘I began to know I was in the right place at the right time and I could relax. I came to love being alone surrounded by silence, awed by it’s spell, listening to inner space. I came to see emotional pain as a signal I am operating outside truth. I learned to meet my own needs and not call it selfish. The parts of me long-ignored, the orphans of my soul, quit vying for attention. That was the beginning of inner Peace. Then I began seeing clearly.
I started feeling all my feelings – not analysing them – really feeling them. I stopped projecting my strengths and weaknesses onto others and kept then as my own. I quit exhausting myself by trying so hard. I began to accept the unacceptable. I learned to say no when I want to and yes when I want to. I quit having to be right which made wrong meaningless. I learned to grieve for the hurts in life when they happen instead of making my heart heavy from lugging them around. I forgave myself for all the times I thought I wasn’t good enough. I stopped settling for too little.’
When I loved myself enough by Kim MoMillen and Alison McMillen.