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Please Be Gentle With Me

4/30/2014

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Life has been really intense lately.  (Not just with me, I’ve been hearing it from lots of other people as well.)  All this stuff has been coming up that I SWEAR I’ve worked through before.  It wasn’t a problem anymore.  And now suddenly it is again.  And I don’t know what to do with it.

I had gone down the criticizing and bashing myself path.  It’s so well worn and familiar, sometimes I don’t even realize that’s where I am until I stop and take my bearings.  It never helps to be there.  Never. 

So this is a reminder I need right now.  Maybe you do too?


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It’s helpful to think of this when dealing with other people, definitely.  It’s even more helpful when I remember this when focusing on myself.  It doesn’t matter HOW many books I’ve read or tools I have collected or breakthroughs I’ve had, some days the best I can do is so far below my level of okay that I almost get repulsed by myself.  Those are the days I need my own gentleness and care the most.  They often happen because, once again, I have deprived myself of self-care and all those things I know help me but I feel guilty for doing or like I shouldn’t need them.  I really, really need my own gentleness those days. 

Where do you need your own gentleness right now?  Can you give it to yourself?  Even just a little bit.  Every little bit counts.

Sending gentle love to all of us, especially those places where we need it the most. <3


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    My name is Kathryn Long

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