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Can you comfort yourself? Have you finally made a sanctuary in yourself? When the world around you feels turbulent, cold, and looming are you able to surrender to your grief and hold yourself? These are things I’ve taught myself in the solitude of despair... bitter and necessary survival techniques that slowly became a tender and loving remembrance of my inherent need to nurture and be nurtured. One of the hardest parts of my journey has been forgiving and releasing the worst and lowest of myself— that wretched sad thing— while also calling her back in close for a hug. In the dreamy quiet of when we play catch and release, renewal and return, when there is no one but her who is I... I am my softest cradle, my safest space. I’m here for her, within her, just as she always needed.
* I forgive you - me*
Um etwas zu transformieren, müssen wir es vollständig erfahren und so lieben, wie es ist.
Colin Tipping
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Ready for Valentine's Day! A smiling woman sits among a cluster of shiny, red heart balloons on a pale pink backdrop. She's casually dressed in a red halter top and denim jeans, capturing a festive, loving mood perfect for the holiday season.
This photo celebrates love in all forms, including self-love and friendships.
Wearing a LuLaRoe Julia dress as a tunic over a pair of tall and curvy leggings today. You can shop with me by visiting lularoetrishdelgado.weebly.com
An outfit test can be so much more than an outfit test.
Sometimes it becomes a small conversation with yourself.
A mirror.
A feeling.
A breath.
A quiet little reminder that self-worth does not begin with perfection.
Today wasn’t about makeup or transformation.
It was about feeling comfortable, grounded, and beautiful as I am.
About letting confidence grow from something softer than performance — from self-acceptance.
There is something powerful in feeling at home in your own body, even in the simplest moments.
No mask. No costume. No need to prove anything.
Just presence. Just tenderness. Just me.
And honestly… that kind of confidence feels deeper than anything else. ✨
Some days are better than others. Today will be a good day.
Yes, that's a sharpie dinosaur on my arm. It won't come off.
Day 150
Give yourself a hug... 'cos everybody deserves to be cared for - and you should always lead by example on that!
Dedicated to Rumesa, with love.
[11th Oct, 2009: just found this blogged here www.alreadypretty.com/2009/06/forgive-your-body.html - cool}
Texture by BellezaArtStock - Thank you:)
“The doors to the world of the wild are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women Who Run With the Wolves'.
Simple one this week as I've been super busy!
10/52
~Be around the light bringers, the magic makers, the world shifters, the game shakers. They challenge you, break you open, uplift and expand you. They don't let you play small with your life. These heartbeats are your people. These people are your tribe~ Unknown.
Gosh what a summer it has been...Actually, What a year it has been!!! These words pretty much sum it up for me and I've done exactly that..Those 4 sentences, I'm doing and really amazing things are happening. You may not be able to visually see it but I know. Back to school tomorrow and throwing myself back into my Project 52 which I need to get back on track, lots of wed-editing and a trip to the doctors to see about my painful hips..Lots of cuddles welcome. Keep you posted about that! Abi xx
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
– Frida Kahlo
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Remember that you are not a frightening creature if you feel that nobody cares about you. You need to love yourself in other for others to love you the same way.
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“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.”
-Audrey Hepburn
Self-Denial or Self-Focus?
Matt. 16:23 But he turned , and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited , if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Luke 14:26-27,33 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath , he cannot be my disciple.
2 Tim. 3:1-7 1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come . 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded , lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away . 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning , and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Jesus said that we cannot be his disciple unless we deny self, take up our cross daily, follow Him. It means forsaking all we love even family. It means putting aside the self, to quit focusing on self, and to quit loving self. The Lord has been teaching me this for weeks now as I asked Him about denying self. He began to show me that when I focus on my pain, it is self-focus. When I focus on my desires, my needs, it is self-focus. When I do what I want to in my way and do not seek the Lord if it is His will for my life, then I have self-love. I am focused on self: what I need, want, my pain, my anger, my depression, my everything.
I had a Self Stronghold for many years. It goes along with a Pride Stronghold and also a Belittlement Stronghold. If some people in our lives have belittled us, abused us, humiliated us, hurt us all our lives, we tend to focus on that pain. The devil makes sure it's our viewpoint, all one sided, only one eye centered in the middle of the forehead like a cyclops. One viewpoint all focused and centered on self like that one-eyed mythical monster. When we do that, we become the monster full of self and opposite of Christ.
Oh, we can see that gays, lesbians, homosexuals and transgender persons do not deny self but indulge self. They do not sacrifice self, focus on Christ or even try to be a disciple of Christ.
Ah, but do we see it in our own lives? I did not until the Lord sent me dreams of conviction. Mighty dreams of rebuke and then I could see my self-focus, my self-love and self-centeredness. We are blind indeed if we see it in others but cannot recognize it in self. If our focus is on others sin and not our own, we are not focused in the right place. If we choose a marriage partner based on what we want, if it satisfies us, then we are not even able to be counted worthy to marry. The marriage will fail. Divorces are caused by self-focus, self-love and self-centeredness. A marriage requires the laying down of self, the sacrifice of self to serve the spouse. Our focus as disciples of Christ should be on Him, not on others sin, not on self. And if we are married we have a special calling from God and it requires a greater self denial than a single person.
self-de·ni·al (sĕlf′dĭ-nī′əl)
n.
Sacrifice of one's own desires or interests. See Synonyms at abstinence.
abstinence
noun
abstention, continence, temperance, self-denial, self-restraint, forbearance, refraining, avoidance, moderation, sobriety, asceticism, teetotalism, abstemiousness, soberness six months of abstinence
opposites of abstinence: abandon, excess, indulgence, self-indulgence, gluttony, acquisitiveness, wantonness, covetousness, greediness
self′-deni′al
n.
1. the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
2. an act or instance of restraining or curbing one's desires.
self-denial - the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses
self-control, self-discipline
self-denial - renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
self-denial
noun self-sacrifice, renunciation, asceticism, abstemiousness, selflessness, unselfishness, self-abnegation
What motives are really behind your service to the Lord? Are you full of spiritual pride? Do you want recognition? Watch out, dangerous ground to tread on!! I have been there and I know from experience! When we are wounded, we focus on the pain. If someone praises us, offers us a spiritual job, makes us feel important, we grab at it because we need to feel better about self. We have felt like nothing all of our lives. We have been starving emotionally like a famished tiger full of stripes or wounds or beatings. We have been beat up and abused for years. We been left behind, rejected, divorced. We may have been molested. Many hurts, many pains but did you know that Jesus took your stripes, your wounds, your pains, your chastisement even for things that happened to you when you were already a Christian? I dreamed of tigers chasing me while I am trapped on an island. It meant I felt marooned, abandoned, all alone. Starving for attention, for love, for emotional support. Those emotionally starved tigers will be your death if you don't recognize them now and kill them!
Do you want to follow Christ? It will cost you everything! Are you willing? If not, what will you answer to Him on judgment day?
He took your stripes, don't let the starving tigers eat you up alive from the inside. Don’t let your needy self be the cause of making a wrong choice. He must be our focus, let's ask the Holy Spirit to produce the fruit of temperence and self-control in us which is self-denial. We cannot deny self without His help.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Do you see it? Temperence is a fruit of the Spirit of God and he produces it in us. Self-control is not willpower. If it was, I would have lost all my extra pounds years ago. Willpower only lasts a while and then fails but self-control is self-denial, sacrifice daily of self as we take up our cross to follow Him. If we truly belong to Him, this MUST be done and by the Spirit of God.
God bless you in your journey to follow Him!
Kathie Luther