Embracing Endings and Beginnings | KJ Nasrul

Embracing Endings and Beginnings

by KJ Nasrul

"To truly choose to love is heroic" - Bell Hooks

We are always hardest on ourselves. It’s just the reality of our being. The instinct to survive is strong and almost always overtakes the conscience to be kind to oneself.

Practice of self-compassion by setting boundaries, participation in creativity, and listening to the dialogue of our body.

Compassion is activism.

Learn to accept that no one is perfect. Much to most people’s dismay, we are all imperfect beings.

Nobody is bereft from making mistakes. And practicing self-compassion is recognizing that suffering and the feeling of ‘not-enoughness’ is at the very core of our humanity.

Compassion for oneself is one of the most neglected areas of self-care.

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"We are being held in all moments.”
~ Erica Skone-Rees
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Dearest Ones, how do you as highly sensitive people, healers, and caregivers (because we all give and care for someone else) hold your grief?

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