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Affirmation, Clarity, Courage, growth, happiness, Healing, life, love, mental health, Needs, Reassurance, relationships, Truth, voice, vulnerability, Worth, writing
The song by A Great Big World always gets me. Some days I get lost in the past and this is one song that takes me back to a time when I just needed something. Even a little acknowledgement would have been good. But alas, it was not meant to be.
I’m embracing more things about myself these days and either working to fix the rough parts or just recognizing all the different parts of me and integrating them into the new me that I am forming. But I’ve really realized that I’m a needy person. I like reassurance. I need it I guess because my brain still just jumps to weird places.
Back to the past, I was less personally self-assured, etc. and I was still just as needy but went without for a long time. I’m learning (slowly, unfortunately) that I can ask for what I need/want. Now, I have to understand that I may not get what I asked for, but that the asking is allowed.
I’m working on positive affirmations and being less insecure but it is a process and I’m not very far along. My goal for the week is to just ask, along with reminding myself I am worth it.
So that’s my focus right now, asking without shame, reminding myself I deserve to be treated with care and consideration. I may not always get the answers I want. I may not always feel brave enough to ask. But I’m starting to believe that voicing my needs isn’t weakness. It’s honesty. It’s growth.
And if no one else says it today: I see you. You matter. You are worthy.
Sometimes that reassurance has to come from within, so I’m learning to say something to myself, too.
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