There’s something I’ve only told my therapist and a very select few friends over the last 5 years. It’s the sort of heavy that brings a girl to therapy for the first time in years to unpack her shit. It’s the beginnings of a tiny thread that someone started to pull that eventually unravels the whole damn sweater I spent 32 years knitting into perfect existence.It’s why I began a journey to healing my trauma and—like the thing that happens when you change one rug in a room of your house and then suddenly the entire house has to be...
I was inspired to create this little toolkit because one of my favorite things to do at birthday parties is to ask everyone to share something they adore or admire about whoever is having a birthday. This practice ALWAYS puts a smile on the faces of everyone involved, especially the lucky birthday boy or girl. Since I can’t have a birthday party this year, I wanted to create an opportunity for you all to give that “It’s my birthday” feeling to the people you are closest to.
When we can talk to ourselves with kindness and love, accepting our shortcomings and missteps (and knowing that we are doing the best we can with the information that we have in each moment) it opens our hearts in such a way that allows even more goodness, hope and love into our lives. And only then we are able to give even more sincere kindness, genuine love and caring support to others.
