""Being present for your own life is the most radical act of self-compassion you can offer yourself." ~Sylvia Boorstein In 2004, I experienced a powerful breakthrough in understanding what it meant to love myself. I could finally understand that self-love is about the relationship that you have with yourself, and that relationship is expressed in how you speak to yourself, treat yourself, and see yourself. I also understood that self-love is about knowing yourself and paying attention to what you need."
"What I didn't realize yet was that I had been living with complex trauma my entire life. It stemmed from a painful childhood, and it had created blind spots in how I saw myself and others. Because of complex trauma, I moved through life in a fog-feeling lost, disconnected from myself, and seeking self-worth through external validations. So, I continued on with life-struggling, yet still hoping to find my answers. Then one day the fog began to lift, and the healing process began."
In 2004 a breakthrough reframed self-love as the ongoing relationship with oneself, shown in how one speaks to, treats, and sees oneself and in attending to personal needs. Over years of living, exhaustion and burnout revealed a deeper layer of unresolved complex trauma rooted in a painful childhood that produced blind spots, disconnection, and external validation seeking. Healing began gradually as the fog lifted. From 2011 to 2016 caregiving for a mother with advanced Alzheimer's while managing chronic health issues and severe anxiety proved both overwhelming and sacred. After the mother’s death a serious fungal infection collapsed physical and mental health.
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