“I’m not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I’m here, on my own accord, to love you. So that when you stare into my mirror eyes, you may see how extraordinary you are.” –Kamand Kojouri
The One
This past week I’ve been exploring the idea of belonging to myself.
A sacred self-relationship.
I’ve been witnessing the spaces of belonging I’ve cultivated in myself, my home, and my work. And also: those inner spaces where I don’t yet belong.
Meeting them with curiosity, tenderness, and grace.
Today I invite you to ask yourself:
Could you practice belonging to yourself first? And could you witness, accept, and receive yourself where you don’t yet belong?
Rad Future You knows this journey well. Here’s their message for you:
“I’m looking back upon you with such reverence and awe, kiddo.
This era of self-love work you’re in. The new ways you’re beginning to see yourself. And how rich this journey is about to become for you.
I’m remembering when you truly began to belong to yourself. How real and genuine it became for you, as you became Me…
When you made a home for hope to live in. And when you, too, finally allowed yourself to live there.”
The Becoming
Belonging to yourself is both a practice and a journey.
Journal exercise: what could it look like for you to begin cultivating small ways of belonging:
In your body.
In your mind.
In your emotions.
In your desires.
In your creations.
In your home.
In your life.
Small acts that grow in time.
Noticing, in this practice, how others find belonging in you.
And maybe, in time, how you allow yourself to belong to others, too.
Stay gold. I love you.
See ya next Wednesday.
Be gentle.
This transformation,
this relearning,
this breaking open,
this becoming
takes time.
—dw
