Thank you all so very, very much.... The feedback I've gotten here and elsewhere is overwhelming.... While I'm so happy to be where I am, it feels weird to be getting the outpouring of feedback because I should have been here (or further along) all along. I spent, wasted 20 plus years of my life not caring about myself.
And another post I just read hit it on the head for me. I never learned to love myself and I think I only now started to take care of myself because I got a wake up health call. And my thoughts were not to take care of myself for me... But to take care of myself so that I could raise my children. Through the year though i have come realize that to take care of them, I need to take care of myself first. I am am happier mom, a more energetic mom and so on because I inave taken time for myself and taken care of myself.... So... In a twisted way I'm learning to love myself.... So I can take care of others better... It's the only way I can "ok myself" to love myself is to say it is in the end to take care of others... But at least I got that it's important, that I'm important.
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