Feeling your worst? It all starts with YOU!

This book was born during a time when I was in a dark place. A deep depression that was difficult to navigate, hard to see past the wall of difficult decisions that needed to be made in life. A time when everything seemed too hard. Even getting out of bed. When all decisions in life seemed like they were too much or too hard or too strenuous or too much.  Everything was just too much. It was then, that a book like this was needed most for myself.For it was only then that I could really feel the deep need of how much this book was needed.

The utterance of “You Are Loved” was my assignment from my therapist to tell myself. To look in the mirror and say those 3 words to myself especially if I felt like I didn’t want to do it. It was declaring and making that statement outloud to myself that was going to help pull me through the darkest times. To push myself to do the opposite of what every bone in my body was urging me to believe: that I wasn’t good enough. That I wasn’t worthy. That I wasn’t okay. That I wasn’t deserving. And as much as I hated the activity and felt like it would get me nowhere. That’s when it mattered MOST of all! Looking back now, that’s the power of what love truly can be. The power to give strength and conviction at the most needed time. To look in the mirror and utter those 3 words “you are loved” when you feel it the least. To know that love for anyone else starts with love for yourself. Because there’s no way to love another if love for yourself doesn’t exist first.