For the Love... of OURSELVES
Almost a year later, I'm gonna give this blog thing another try. If you follow me on twitter, you know two things: 1. that it's National Suicide Prevention week and 2. That I've been issuing challenges everyday thus far. (If you don't follow me on twitter, it's here) Well it's day 3, my friends and we are going to mix things up a little bit. The other two challenges have been for others, but today, today is about you. Let me explain at how I arrived at this...
I've tried this whole blog thing a couple times and I just feel like I get all my feelings out on something and then I don't have anything I feel really passionately about to fill up another post. I definitely don't want to write a blog post just for the sake of having a blog post. I want to be passionate about something I write about or not write at all.
Getting to the point, I'm reading this new book by Jen Hatmaker (who is who I want to be like when I'm 40 and have a family - she's that cool) called For the Love and even in just the intro she talks about how we are called as believers to love one another as we love ourselves. Which is such a nice idea, believer or not, to buy into. Until you remember that you are your own harshest critic. Jen says that we are a generation "on the hook," and I don't know about you but I couldn't agree more.
When I look in the mirror the first thing I see is my imperfections, here's how my mind works:
"Oh gosh, my bangs are doing that weird part thing this is bad hair day number 23948439 in a row" ... "Why didn't I wear my retainer every night when I was 17 I took 2 steps forward and 7 steps back!?" ... "I am 22 and have forehead wrinkles already, this is what it has come to." ... "Well, ya know, we can't all be 10s. Some guys just like funny girls, right? RIGHT?" And so many other things, but it's not even just physical things. Whenever I speak in front of crowds I always tell myself I didn't make sense or I talked too fast. But most commonly brought to my attention is that I am a people pleaser through and through. I do just about anything to avoid conflict including take blame when it's not mine to take, tell myself to be quiet about things when I should speak up, and sometimes let people walk all over me. What Jen's book is helping me realize is, how the heck am I supposed to give love when I can't even give myself love?!
So here's what I'm proposing: for my National Suicide Prevention Week challenge #3, I want you to in the next 24 hours comment on this post, DM, tweet, text, email, whatever me 5 things about YOURSELF that you love. They can be physical or personality traits, doesn't matter to me. But I want you to share them with me (or someone in your life, I suppose) these things because I actually want you to do this! When you are free to love yourself you are free to love others and that, my friends, is a form of suicide prevention.
I could not be more excited to read what you have to say and get to love YOU, because you're worth it. So what do you say, challenge accepted?
xoxo
B
I've tried this whole blog thing a couple times and I just feel like I get all my feelings out on something and then I don't have anything I feel really passionately about to fill up another post. I definitely don't want to write a blog post just for the sake of having a blog post. I want to be passionate about something I write about or not write at all.
So I'm here with the essentials, and looking forward to your thoughts...
Getting to the point, I'm reading this new book by Jen Hatmaker (who is who I want to be like when I'm 40 and have a family - she's that cool) called For the Love and even in just the intro she talks about how we are called as believers to love one another as we love ourselves. Which is such a nice idea, believer or not, to buy into. Until you remember that you are your own harshest critic. Jen says that we are a generation "on the hook," and I don't know about you but I couldn't agree more.
When I look in the mirror the first thing I see is my imperfections, here's how my mind works:
"Oh gosh, my bangs are doing that weird part thing this is bad hair day number 23948439 in a row" ... "Why didn't I wear my retainer every night when I was 17 I took 2 steps forward and 7 steps back!?" ... "I am 22 and have forehead wrinkles already, this is what it has come to." ... "Well, ya know, we can't all be 10s. Some guys just like funny girls, right? RIGHT?" And so many other things, but it's not even just physical things. Whenever I speak in front of crowds I always tell myself I didn't make sense or I talked too fast. But most commonly brought to my attention is that I am a people pleaser through and through. I do just about anything to avoid conflict including take blame when it's not mine to take, tell myself to be quiet about things when I should speak up, and sometimes let people walk all over me. What Jen's book is helping me realize is, how the heck am I supposed to give love when I can't even give myself love?!
So here's what I'm proposing: for my National Suicide Prevention Week challenge #3, I want you to in the next 24 hours comment on this post, DM, tweet, text, email, whatever me 5 things about YOURSELF that you love. They can be physical or personality traits, doesn't matter to me. But I want you to share them with me (or someone in your life, I suppose) these things because I actually want you to do this! When you are free to love yourself you are free to love others and that, my friends, is a form of suicide prevention.
I could not be more excited to read what you have to say and get to love YOU, because you're worth it. So what do you say, challenge accepted?
xoxo
B
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