The Giver

I am learning to love myself

Even when I feel unattractive, unlovable, unworthy.

That is when I need the most love.

I am learning to forgive myself

even when I make mistakes I’ve made

a hundred times before.

That is when I need my own forgiveness

I am learning to respect myself

even when I lose respect from others.

That is when I need respect the most.

I am worthy of love, forgiveness, and respect.

As I give to myself, I receive from others as well.

I am learning that to put myself first is not selfish,

It is necessary. To not put myself first is neglect.

The more I give to myself, the more I have to give.

I deserve all that I have to offer.

The giver must learn to be a receiver also.

The giver must learn to recognize her constant giving, her value, her energy, her healing, her love, her worth.

She needs to take time to nurture herself, to envelop herself in her own care and compassion which she so freely gives to all who come her way. She must empathize with her own troubles and lend a listening ear to the woes and worries of her own mind, to cry on her own shoulder. She is her own shaman, her own mother, sister, friend and lover. She carries the womb of all things, all things are created by and through her.

And so she is it all, and must be to herself and all else.

The crux of creation,

the bearer of life itself

with all its pains and sorrows, joys and triumphs.

She holds it all within her blessed womb, thrusting it forth into the world of manifestation.

Her heart beating in rhythm with each genesis, their hearts are her heart.

Their pain, her pain, their joy, her joy. She feels it all, she bears it all, she is the core, the essence, the lifeblood.

So honor her, the goddess, in your own self. She is there. Heart beating alongside your own. Breath breathing with each inhale. Tears streaming as your cry in aguish. 

She is there and she longs to re-unite.