🌙 Ph.D Candidate 🔮 Anxiety • Relationships • Mindfulness • Self love 🙋🏻♀️ Therapist + Artist + Author + Human 👇🏼Resources
www.msha.ke Instagram.comWe are constantly shedding old versions of ourselves to make space for new versions of ourselves.
You are NOT the same person you were even 1 minute ago.
So with each passing minute, there is an opportunity to consciously create the new version of you.
This doesn’t happen over night though. In fact, it is a long journey of:
✨ getting to know the parts of yourself that you have exiled (your inner child)
✨ learning how to regulate your nervous system (emotion regulation and self soothing)
✨ identifying old beliefs and behaviours and working on catching these thoughts/urges to act in the moment. In other words - practicing being the observer of yourself (mindfulness)
✨ practicing self-validation and self-reassurance instead of self-criticism and sabotage
✨ learning how to express and honour your authentic self and let go of the role self you have built to survive in the world, gain love, and gain validation.
And let me tell you - this process can be painful. Why?
🌙 because awakening to your authentic self means acknowledging that the old patterns of being are no longer sustainable. Often times, we learn that our ways of being are not sustainable when we hit episodes of depression/anxiety, develop health problems, and have unhealthy relationships.
So today, I want to normalize that healing can be a tough and painful process.
🌙 Yes you will want to be alone - but that doesn’t mean you are lonely.
🌙 You will still care about certain people, but know you must let them go to flourish.
🌙 As you let go of your old ways of coping, the newness will feel uncomfortable and you may feel lost and hopeless.
🌙As you resist giving into old patterns, feelings of guilt, shame, and fear may come up. This is normal and these feelings are coming from your old self.
🌙And you most CERTAINLY will let people down - especially those who benefited from you being your old self.
All of this is normal. Please trust in yourself and the process.
I believe in you 🌙🌙
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