Are there parts of you that you’ve overcome, parts that you don’t accept, or parts that you haven’t felt fully?
On the self-love journey, one of the most important things is to love and accept all parts of you. Often when we’ve come so far, we disown the part of us that wasn’t so much up to speed. That person is so different from who we are now that we almost resent them; We hide them and pretend that they never existed. They seem like a “dark” side or a helpless part of us that couldn’t see the light.
Whichever that part is, let it surface, feel it with all you’ve got, and then love it. Love it unconditionally. Because that wasn’t just a part of you in the past, it is you and just as you want to be loved now, you wanted to be loved then. Reach into that space in the past, fill your heart with love and feel that love moving through you all the way up until now.
By acknowledging that the person is you, you may start to feel more compassion for yourself back then. This compassion and nurturing will help you to release the fear of going there again, because you will allow yourself to feel. So release the fear and love both parts of you, because that part of you allowed your light to shine brighter than it ever knew how.
