Loving myself………

The hardest love to give – and receive is self love.  In spite of my best intentions, I am always looking for something I have done to aggravate or cause my own pain.  It is the ultimate trap to suppose the fault for chronic migraine lies within me.  I know this.  Yet, especially when I have had a hard week, month, year, I look for ways I have inflicted this misery upon myself.

This year my list of new year’s resolutions is short:

1.  Be kinder to myself
That’s it.

Somehow, these annual, seasonal do-good or do-better intentions tend to become the critical monkey on our backs that is always telling us we haven’t quite measured up.  Thus, I’m attempting to turn that around.  I’m doing great considering the hand I’ve been dealt.  My job is to keep reminding myself of that fact and love myself “as is.”  I come with flaws as do we all.  But sometimes “as is” means it’s the best deal going, something that is essentially intact and lovable with some little unimportant imperfection.

Mi corazón

Mi amor