If the words "just love yourself" make you want to roll your eyes a little, you're not alone. It's easy advice to give and painfully hard advice to follow — especially when your inner voice has spent years being your harshest critic instead of your biggest supporter. Self-love isn't a switch you flip. It's a practice — messy, slow, built one small moment at a time. So if it feels impossible right now, that doesn't mean you're behind. It just means you're human, and you're starting somewhere real. A few gentle places to begin: 🌱 Start smaller than you think you need to. Aim for tolerance before affection. Not being your own enemy for an hour still counts. 🎧 Notice the voice, don't just believe it. So much of self-doubt is just an old, loud habit — not truth. 💛 Talk to yourself like someone you love. Borrow the tone you'd use with a friend who was struggling. 🌸 Let your body lead when your mind can't. Rest, nourishment, and a breath before reacting all count as self-love too. 🌙 Give yourself permission to be a work in progress. You don't have to arrive anywhere before you're allowed to be kind to yourself. If you're comfortable sharing — what's one small way you're trying to be gentler with yourself lately? No pressure to have it all figured out. Just curious what's showing up for you this week.

Wouldn't EVAH miss your B-DAY... let WE-Say... Like Buckwheat...It's O-TAY Meaning O-KAY for ME-Hey... To CELEBRATE Thee-Day... We should be on the HORN... Like BE like the BIG CORN... But I don't have your Number... Otherwise I Could Sing like Stevie Wonder... HAAAA-PPPPY BIRRRTHDAY To YA... HAAAA-PPPPY BIRRRTHDAAAAY... Your BIRTH-DAY... Your EARTH-DAY because this is the Day your parents CELEBRATED Your WORTH-DAY... Because you were WORTH it ALL... Let's have a BALL... On Your Coming to EARTH CELEBRATION... Through out the NATION... On your FOURTH of JULY... THANK God Nobody had to DIE... For you to BE BORN... SOOO GLAD YOU'RE HERE @Ronda Del Boccio ...by Deremiah *CPE

🐢Sometimes, life has a funny way of reminding us of things we need to hear. Yesterday morning, I was unexpectedly blessed with an old friend scratching at my door. Now, I didn’t realize it right away—but that friend was on a mission. 🐢🐢Scratch. Scratch. I looked through the peephole—nothing. Scratch. This visitor wasn’t giving up. Curiosity took over, so I slipped outside quietly and saw what was making all that noise...a medium-sized turtle, slowly but surely making its way to me. The moment I saw it, an old story from my childhood came flooding back: Aesop’s The Tortoise and the Hare. 🐢🐢🐢You know the lesson. Slow and steady wins the race. And here was my messenger, reminding me to trust the journey, to stay steady even when life races by. 🐢🐢🐢🐢I gently lifted that little guy and took him to the reservoir, where he could safely keep on his journey. It was such a small moment but filled with a powerful reminder: to never lose sight of what’s right in front of us. 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢We may chase big dreams, move fast, even kick the door from the inside when life scratches at it. But sometimes, we need a moment with that quiet, persistent messenger reminding us to stay grounded and move with purpose. What’s scratching at your door today?...by Deremiah *CPE

I thought I'd share this... I may have before I don't know... but here it is on 7/7 for everyone who needs it!! Listen on repeat! Believe! IT IS ALREADY DONE!!! I'M THE CREATOR!!! Stay Curious 🐇🐛🦋🎩⌛ 💜Mel

Through the Mountains of Sedona My Spirit Runs...FREE... like Wild Horses... On the Open Plains... My Spirit SOUL Speaks of Jubilee... As Thunder Clouds Rain... I DANCE inSide of Me... FEELING No Hesitation... I See Within the Darkness... a LIGHT...I Call PEACE NATION...by Deremiah *CPE PS I never know what I will CREATE when I pull out my Camera and ReCreate a Photograph of LOVE...and Spirit Delivers a Message to me that only I can Express because I will yield to obey it's Desire to be Made Manifest in our UNI-VERSE...where I'm just a Vessel for all that IDEA should Represent in the earth......photo ©Deremiah December 2, 2023