I carry my mother within me
(declining peony - crop)
I can't put this feeling into words. I have tried over the last week and cannot find the words that will express the significance this has had for me: observing loving mothers with their children, and families together has had such a healing effect on my heart. Thank you.
The ability to be changed by what you feel and see can be a powerful gift. We are changed by what we do. In this way, I am my own mother. I carry my mother within me.
In truth, we are all alone in some way, and in truth, we are never alone. Because we are all our own mothers.
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When you are alone, when you are weak, try to be a loving mother to yourself. Try to speak to yourself the way you would speak to the people whose heart, growth, future you hold most precious.
Teach your children how to be a loving mother to themselves.
Judgment and shame and guilt radiate from the inside out. So does unconditional love. So does acceptance, forgiveness and encouragement. Start by loving yourself.
After the gift of life, I believe this is the greatest gift.
Happy Mother's Day.
I carry my mother within me
(declining peony - crop)
I can't put this feeling into words. I have tried over the last week and cannot find the words that will express the significance this has had for me: observing loving mothers with their children, and families together has had such a healing effect on my heart. Thank you.
The ability to be changed by what you feel and see can be a powerful gift. We are changed by what we do. In this way, I am my own mother. I carry my mother within me.
In truth, we are all alone in some way, and in truth, we are never alone. Because we are all our own mothers.
- - - -
When you are alone, when you are weak, try to be a loving mother to yourself. Try to speak to yourself the way you would speak to the people whose heart, growth, future you hold most precious.
Teach your children how to be a loving mother to themselves.
Judgment and shame and guilt radiate from the inside out. So does unconditional love. So does acceptance, forgiveness and encouragement. Start by loving yourself.
After the gift of life, I believe this is the greatest gift.
Happy Mother's Day.