When we step on our healing path it can be tough.

Sometimes we feel worse before we feel better.

Having a deep experience is not for the faint of heart.

For our deepest wounds may come to the surface.

All the pain, the shame, and the guilt we have suppressed for so long rises to the surface.

We are now aware of all the scared and hurt sides of ourselves.

And that can feel overwhelming.

It can feel like there is no end in sight of this deep, dark hole.

That we have so much work to do on ourselves.

This seemingly endless road to wholeness can feel daunting.

When we feel these deeply hurt and wounded sides of ourselves, the rawness can be something challenging to deal with.

We are tender and sensitive beyond anything we have experienced before.

And that is the time when we need to be more gentle, more kind, and even more compassionate with ourselves.

To stand up for ourselves and our needs is critical at this time.

For everyone else may not know how raw we truly feel.

And they are used to us being our old way.

Now that we are showing up with more vulnerability and emotion, they may not know what to do.

Or how to hold us.

This is when we need to learn to hold ourselves with greater care and gentleness.

We have been hurt enough in our lives by other people.

Now we must take care not to hurt or criticize ourselves more.

Holding all our tender parts the way we would hold a wounded puppy or kitten.

Showing others how we want to be held by them.

Through our example with ourselves.

The time has come for us to practice radical self-care, and radical self-love.

With all the tenderness we find within us.

So we can integrate and hold all that pain in more compassionate and conscious manner.

Rebirthing ourselves into the person we are now becoming.

One who is more whole, more aware, and more kind.

To ourselves, and to everyone else.

So how can you hold yourself with more kindness and tenderness?

~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour

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