You just don't think you do because you're so used to being scared. But just take one step forth one step. It can be a baby step. Go to that mirror and just say I love you every single morning for like 30 days as much as you can every morning. I want you to say that and say good at night too, because you forget one, you got the other. Okay. I love you in the mirror like three times, five if you want
Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 2:06
We give it so easily for others. But for ourselves we feel a little like reserved or like we have to do more. Do we deserve it yet? Do I deserve to tell myself I love myself in the mirror yet? Did I do enough to earn that? So yeah, very interesting how we're all put together here in this life and just navigating ways to make it. But this is a great smile. Thank you so much for inviting me
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:27
All I have to say to everyone on this thread is amen. Let's look in the mirror and just big thumbs up and then go out to the world and spread that joy to others as well. I think it has to be a little cyclical like we're doing now. Really get the back and forth going so that it's contagious, so that's my goal is to take all this yummy stuff and pass it on. Thanks
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 4:46
Take the time, in addition to encouraging yourself and loving on yourself and affirming yourself and embracing the totality of who you are up to this point in your life. And I've also learned the importance, which is my contribution to this swell cast. Such a beautiful post, to also take the time to grieve, right? Often times in my experience and this is me speaking from the perspective and context of being a community servant and a faith worker
For me, I only can talk about me because sometimes a lot of times I feel like my brain is so complicated and messy and there's no way I could ever explain what's in my mind in a single day. Let me continue to unpack this the best way that I can concerning just this little part. Grieving. I know now that I have grieved for a very long time. I just couldn't touch it. I couldn't feel it
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 4:59
They can't go kick a soccer ball with them, but they can read to them about a soccer game or some fascinating story fairy tale and things like that. I just have hinged a lot of my internal process. And like you said, we can only talk about us. But I've hinged it on this idea that after death, there is rebirth in each of us intrinsically
So yeah, grief is just a funny thing, but definitely we agree that we have to name it first and then we have to allow ourselves to be vulnerable to ourselves to say, yeah, it's going to be messy, ugly, complicated, but we got to find out what it is. What is the scrape? What is it made of? What are the different parts of it? Who are the players in the game?
