The amount you value yourself will often be reflected back to you in your relationships.

We so often want our partner to love us more than we love ourselves.

Instead of focusing on how your partner needs to change, put your energy into your own growth, and this will in turn help forge the changes you need in other areas.

When we raise our level of self awareness, self love and self worth our relationships need to grow alongside us. They can often fall away and change to reflect the new level we are ready for.

The real work we have to do is our inner work.

Life gets so full of so many missions. Just don’t lose sight of what really matters.. the inner growth, the expansion of love in your spirit, the depth of relationship you can become capable of.

Working through our hurts, becoming conscious of our mind’s distortions; releasing what blocks us from our true self, from our love and connection, is the purpose of it all.

And when we do our inner work, it naturally leads us to the right work we need to do in the world, and to be able to do it more effectively.

Your contribution changes according to what you do, but your intrinsic value is untouched no matter what you do.

Who we truly are in essence, is always worthy of compassion and connection.

I appreciate the notion of being and becoming…
All the while that we are becoming more and more our wholeness and our full potential, we are, in the truth of our being, simultaneously already and always whole.

Everything in life on the outside is changeable, and we can change some of our inner workings by learning to observe and hold space around our conditioning, but we can’t change the truth of who we are.

Just simply in being, we are lovable and valuable and precious.

It’s more honest and courageous to acknowledge fear, allow it’s experience, respect it and process it, than it is to say you don’t have it and to try and blank it out.

Fear drains our energy, even when we sometimes don’t fully realise it’s there.

When we can learn tools and resources that enable us to be anchored in our self and our inner safety, we can then safely allow, express and process our fear.

For me those tools are yoga and meditation: being in my body and breath and mindful awareness of presence.

As we deepen with these practices, we will find we can work things through, even our most uncomfortable and painful feelings.