22d • Challenge
Day 17 — The grief of not loving yourself sooner 🥹
Today I want to give you permission to grieve 🌸
Not in a heavy, pull-you-under kind of way. In a gentle, honest, necessary kind of way.
Because when we start to really love ourselves — when something genuinely shifts — there can be this sadness that arrives alongside it. A quiet grief for the years we didn't. The years we spent being so cruel to ourselves. The relationships we stayed in too long because we didn't believe we deserved better. The dreams we let go of because we didn't think we were capable. The times we said yes when we meant no, over and over and over.
That grief is real. And it deserves to be honoured.
But here's what I really want you to hear today. You did not know what you didn't know. You were doing the absolute best you could with the tools and the beliefs you had at the time. You were not failing. You were surviving. And surviving takes everything you've got.
You don't have to punish yourself for the years you didn't love yourself. You get to love yourself now. Starting today. That is enough.
Today's affirmation: I forgive myself for the years I didn't know better 💛
Today's journal prompt: Write about the version of you that didn't know how to love herself. What do you want to say to her now? What would you want her to know?
This is a tender one. Be gentle with yourself today, and come share what comes up if you feel ready 🌿
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Day 17 — The grief of not loving yourself sooner 🥹
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