Love is not just what you have and give to others but what you also need to have for yourself

I was going through photos of family and friends the other day and noticed that every time I came to a photo of myself with family...my brain instantly started to compare....instantly pointing out to me how "different" I look to the family member in the photo with me....which in itself does not sound all that bad except...while comparing I was tearing my self apart....saying things like WOW my head is really too big....god look at my crazy hair....ick I look like a giant among them....I am definitely not petite like so and so....my skin looks like a dead persons...my eyes are so funky big and yet so squinty....my hips...my arms...not like so and so...etc etc etc

I have come to realize that my "uniqueness" is what I have used as a "weakness" never looking at myself with friendly eyes and seeing what is good about me..what I have that makes me...ME.

I am learning now that love is just not what you have and give to others but what you also need to have and give to yourself.

I am now trying to look at me with New Love for Myself and see that I may not look like my family..but that does not make me the monster my brain had convinced me I was.

If I don't start to love myself then all I have been doing will cease at some point because why do something for someone you don't care for...you wouldn't do such acts to change for anyone unless it was for the most important one... yourself.

So my challenge to all of you is to look in the mirror and tell yourself how much you love you....if it is hard to do then start with one thing about you....I started with something small " I love the way my wrists look" I know it sounds funny but each and every part of you is what makes you, you and to love you...you must love all of you!

Love to you and to me

Meg

" Love of others is important...love of yourself is what makes things happen"