♥ HEARTWHISPERS... ♥

We are much too hard on ourselves. 

Really we are. 

We beat ourselves up, 

we ‘should on ‘ourselves, 

we compare ours

elves to others, 

we postpone self-love until we reach a stage 

of perfection that is impossibly unrealistic. 

We are so hard on ourselves, 

but how are we to know better? 

It’s not like there is a book that lays it all down. 

It’s not like we downloaded perfection. 

We are still writing that book, 

writing it with the blood of lessons learned, 

writing it with ink that is forged in 

the fires of transformation. 

We are learning as we g(r)o(w). 

So let’s give ourselves a break. 

Often. Kindly. Gently. Really. 

It’s a huge thing to grow beyond 

the parameters of our familiar ways of being. 

Berating ourselves won't get us anywhere. 

A little self-love goes a long way…

~ Jeff Brown