Darling one,
You’ve been led to believe for your whole life that you are not good enough exactly as you are, and that is simply not the truth.
You have been built perfectly with everything you need. You have your intuition. You have the perfectly working voice inside your heart. You have the impulse in your gut. You have the yearning in your spirit. You have the daydreams in quiet moments. You have the longing in your fantasies. You have the potential to be brave. You have it all.
And you have the one and only thing that can be guaranteed, that you get to do the whole life thing with yourself.
From the moment you take your first breath, to the moment your final one escapes your chest – you get to be with yourself. This relationship is the most important in your life. It sets the tone for every other relationship. So, why are you denying yourself even a skerrick of joy? Why are you rude, or mean, or behaving in a manner that makes you feel like shit? Why are you limiting, delaying, or holding yourself back from the yearning in your heart?
Why?
I know the list of reasons why feels long and complex. And there’s lots of healing to done, bills to pay and work to do. I know our dreams feel too big and unrealistic, and our inner critic can be a real prick. But, what if it was simple? What if we made feeling good a priority? What if we stopped for a little bit and got really clear about how we wanted to feel, and then we put a little bit of energy into feeling it every single day?
This, darling, is possible.
It’s not about lack, it’s about listening. It’s about paying attention. It’s about small incremental changes. It’s about intentional action. It’s about acknowledging that you already are enough, exactly as you are, despite everything you’ve been taught, socialised, programmed and brainwashed to believe.
So, what do you want? How do you want to feel? And what can you do right this moment, right now to feel that way? Can you play a song that makes you feel this way? Can you imagine that Harry Styles has just slid into your DM’s and wants to go and get churros with you? Can you feel the sunshine on your face, or send a sexy text to your lover, or tell that lady in accounts that you appreciate the careful selection of happy gif’s she uses in her emails every pay day? Can you look in the mirror and give yourself the compliment you’d love to hear most? It doesn’t matter what it is, as long it’s something that shifts the minimising notion that you have do, be, have, learn, earn, grow into anything other than what you already are, to be enough.
I see you, and I think you’re glorious. Yes.
Love Claire.