Freedom2Change

Taking care of you your health and heart are so important.

Don’t look back you’re not going that way.

Have you ever said, “I wish I could look like I did 5 or even 10 years ago” “I wish I could go back to a time when things seemed so much easier”?

There have been a multitude of times in my life when I have said these and so many other similar statements to myself. What are some of the statements you have said to yourself or times you have felt like you wanted to go back to…?

It took me a long time of asking these questions and wishing I could be someone different or at a different stage in my life than where I was to realize that the me, I was looking back on as fun and awesome as she was that version of me no longer existed.

We tend to remember the good, the fun and the excitement and I often forget the other things. The things I was overlooking, I was hurting, broken, abused and carried a tremendous amount of shame and guilt.

So much has changed for me physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally as an individual and I have spent a lot of time healing, forgiving myself and others. Learning what it means to make myself a priority and loving the me God created me to be and standing in the belief of who He says I am not the lies I was telling myself.

Today I am thankful that person is no longer here. Taking care of yourself is worth it, important and necessary, self-care for a long time were words that were not part of my vocabulary now they are often the lenses I view most things through.

How are you caring for yourself?