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Learning to love yourself

So I am on this major journey at the moment. Growing, changing, learning about me. Most of all, learning to love myself and be true to myself. That is having a huge effect on life and the people around me, some good, some not so great, but either way, it's time. I had this revelation this morning, that most of the things that I see as problems in my life, most of the times I am unhappy, hurt or disappointed, are because I have failed myself. I have never truly loved myself just for me. I struggle to see why my husband loves me, why my friends love me and I realised that's because I have never really loved me. My whole life, I've been a people pleaser. I hate to think how many hours I have wasted worrying what people think of me and if I think it's not positive, what I can do to make them like me.  When I became a mum, that role slipped a little, because all of a sudden there were these little people who came above everyone else. Unfortunately it didn't change my p...