1. Sometimes I forget to leave room for myself. I am so busy attending to what others need and want, I forget about my own requirements and desires. I am so worried about what I should do, have to do, need to do, that I lose sight of my own hungers, my need for rest and nourishment. Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) in this regard is both my superpower and my kryptonite.
2. Chronic undercaring catches up with me. Eventually I burn out, wear down, crash, wreck myself, and am forced to slow down and take care of myself because I just can’t push anymore. Once I finally begin the work of healing, there is such a lack — I’ve gone beyond hunger to starving, beyond tired to complete exhaustion.
3. I can’t figure out how to do both, to give but also receive, to be generous with others but also with self. I work and serve and help, put all my effort towards easing suffering where I find it, and I do so full force until I just can’t go anymore. Then is when I finally submit to attending to myself beyond the bare minimum.
One Wish: That this suffering may ease, wherever it exists. May my innate wisdom and compassion guide me to a way of being both of service to the world and of benefit to myself.
Open Space Practice, (AKA: A Thousand Shades of Gray) 
Only this: You are loved. 🙂
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You are not alone…..if you work out the answer please share with us 😉
You know I will, Jackie. 🙂
I could have written this post. Let’s nourish ourselves and each other over pie tomorrow. 🙂 But if you can better nourish yourself alone cuddled up with the boys, no one will understand more than me. Sending you love…
Don’t even think of trying to get out of our date, Mary! 🙂
I’m really, really looking forward to it!
Feeling you on this!! xo
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