Part 2:
“Every time you choose to honor yourself, you retrain your brain to know your true worth.” - @Philofem (instagram)
What does choosing to honor yourself mean to you? I've been questioning this for a while, and the one thing it boils down to for me is the idea of choosing yourself. It's a message I believe so deeply in, and one that I want to empower women and mothers with. It is this: Choose you. Move from merely existing, from keeping your head above water by just treading and barely making it, to actually LIVING. LIVING a life you LOVE. And how do you do it? Go from knowing what to do to ACTUALLY DOING IT.
Another awesome person I follow on Social Media, @Good Life Project said this about it (and I'm quoting him because I couldn't have phrased it better):
We’ve all been in that place of “fine” and “busy,” disconnected from the people, places, and activities that allow us to walk through each day utterly alive. Disconnected from our best selves. We’ve all felt like a piece of us was dying a little bit every day and we just didn’t know how to flip the switch, how to turn our lives back on. And we’ve all spun the conversation in our heads that justified inaction and complacency. The one that kept us cocooned, safe from the unknown, but also estranged from the possible.⠀
Sadly, we are not alone. In a world where awareness and intention long ago lost the battle to mindless surrender, we’re not even the exception. For years, if not decades, we’ve been living with an undiagnosed condition: Reactive Life Syndrome. Living each day not by choice, but by default. Doing what we can simply to keep up and tread water. It’s not about getting ahead, but rather about desperately trying not to fall too far behind. And in the end, it’s a losing proposition. The great news is that it’s not too late. There is an antidote.⠀
Choose you. Choose to honor yourself. Move from existing to living, and from knowing what to do to actually doing it.⠀
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So ask yourself today (and everday after today), what does it mean to choose me? What does it mean to honor myself? And go do it.