Giving the perfect gift and seeing that look of pure gratitude on someone’s face is one of the greatest feelings. Finding the perfect gift is another story. To help you make this holiday season more joyful and less stressful, here’s my 2018 gift guide for self-help fans, friends & family! I’m so excited to share what I love with you, so you can pay that love forward.
You get to define what self-care means to you. These self-care affirmations are open-ended invitations to imagine – and start living into – all the ways that serve your personal best.
Some quotes about grace: to open you up to a new level of inspiration and, well, grace. This is also a reminder that we don’t always need to handle everything alone. Grace makes me feel like I’m walking hand-in-hand (especially when I give myself the grace of asking for help). A little space for curiosity doesn’t hurt, either.
Healing is a moment-to-moment experience. It is one reason we need time and space—to digest all that happens. Here are some poems about healing to give your times and spaces a serving of grace.
Love seems to be confused with our perceived connection to it. Love is not painful, but when we feel that we have lost our connection to it, the pain stemming from the loss can run deep. I want to share a handful of brief, but powerful, notes about what love really means. May they serve your connections.
Jealousy is its own brand of poison. It can stunt real growth, hinder creativity, dull our shine, impede self-compassion, and generally just take the wind out of our sails. Whichever side of the jealousy equation you find yourself on, may these poems about jealousy remind you of your own light, what can’t be taken away.
Use these affirmations to bolster your connection to daily love so that you can feel supported and connected 7 days a week. The more loving you are, the more loving the world becomes.
Before (or after) you find yourself answering the requests of the world, ask your own self what it is you could do today to be at home within yourself. A center of inner peace is strengthened through mindful attention—leave it up to everyone else, and that peace seems little far-fetched. That’s what coming home to yourself feels like: a peaceful strength, a sanctuary.
Thanks to a beautiful reader, for whom this poem was written, I am sharing a few thoughts on something I think is often forgotten in this world: love is here, not the less. Even though {fill in the blank} happened or is happening, love is my name and my truth. It is here, now, always, and the only thing that is lost is my remembrance of it.
Beautiful people don’t just “still exist”—they are everywhere. You can even be one to yourself (one of the best ways to be good to others). To help you out a bit, I’m sharing some love-based things to tell yourself that your heart probably needs to hear (I know mine does).
What would it look like to be there for yourself? It might look like showing up for the heartache with a little more love than you’re used to giving yourself. It could sound like a sigh of relief after you’ve looked in the mirror and told yourself “I think you might be enough.” Whatever it means, these poems are reminders that you’re not on your own.
Note to self: you are already everything you think you need. These ten notes are brief yet powerful reminders that you’ve just forgotten how incredibly rich and capable you already are. This might be exactly what you need to hear (from yourself) today.
