YOU are Strong!

I've been reflecting a lot over the last couple weeks and this morning as I was drinking coffee, I came across this video on YouTube for a self-help exercise.

Learning self-love and self-acceptance.

The exercise went something like this...

Close your eyes.

Imagine meeting yourself.

The person you are meeting in this moment is when you were at your hardest, darkest time in your life.

When you felt lost and confused.

You felt alone or even shamed.

Keep this person in the same room and now reintroduce her to you as your best self.

The time when you felt most happy in your life, most inspired.

The most proud of who you are.

Introduce these two people and have them hug and have them accept one another.

We are going to have our worst and best times.

The most important thing to remember is this person is the same through it all.

You are meeting that woman you wanted to be or needed in that dark hard time.

The good news is that's who you are and you've always had that inside of you.

You are that strong woman.

This made me think back to when I was the strongest I've ever been in my life.  Which was 8.5 years ago.

This is the when I was my strongest.  I had a strong faith in God.  I had just come out of one of my darkest places, but found that I was stronger than I thought.

Over the last couple months, I have felt defeated.

Beat down.

Destroyed.

Scared.

  Unsure of who I am anymore.

Unworthy.

Weak.

Alone.
Confused.
Depressed.
Full of Shame and Guilt.

Trying my hardest not to show how horrible I felt about myself in front of my family.

Putting on the best smile I could do at that moment.

As I did this self-help exercise, I let the woman in the very first picture meet the woman in all of these other pictures.  

I let them hug.

Through that vulnerable moment, I let the strongest version of myself begin to bring healing to the weakest version.

I felt myself getting stronger.

I started to feel that I was loved again.

I began to accept that I was worthy. 

No matter what you face in life, always remember that YOU were strong once.  YOU are still strong now.  

YOU will get through this.