Happy Sweet Talk Sunday!
How kind are you to yourself? Do you spend time alone with you? Not doing anything but admiring and being grateful for your existence?
The Labor Day three day weekend, I did that for what felt like the first time ever. I sat and contemplated what would really feed my soul. And then it became clear that I must give physical space to my books which I had boxed up over the years to make space for other people’s things. As I contemplated deeper, I realized that these boxes of my books were a physical manifestation of what I had been doing on an emotional, spiritual and energetic level - compartmentalizing me!
Can you relate to that?
Have you been compartmentalizing you so that you do not appear to be too much. Too much for those closest to you or those you barely know?
Wow! Do you think that is being kind to yourself? Announcing the launch of being kind to yourself. As you contemplate that, I invite you to be courageous enough to be the pattern interrupt with that.
You may ask what sparked this revelation. This past week I also launched my new website. I loved integrating all of the parts of me on one site. It would have been easy to only publish a site with me wearing my hijab or completely without it and that would be untrue. I do still wear a hijab: while praying, mowing the lawn and sometimes while cooking. I boldly embrace me however I am dressed. My core is always the same. What you may see change on the website over time is my messaging and words. If you have read Detached Love or seen me speak in person, you know I am very raw, real, and gritty. None of that is showing up in the language on my website currently. That is the last of my compartmentalizing. If you love my fluffy language screenshot it, because by October 7th when the Free to Be Show season 4 starts that will all disappear. This is my form of practicing kindness with myself.
In that alignment, I have also been asked to be a panelist on Courage and Perseverance at the inaugural Kindness Rally in Houston on October 15th. I have included the link if you would like to join me there. And in the interim, join me in looking into your life and see where you can stop compartmentalizing yourself for others.
With Joy and Presence,
Cordelia