How Self-Love Can Save Your Marriage
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via Huffington Post | Pacific MFT
{How Self Love Saved My Marriage - Melody Godfred, Huffington Post}
We resonate so much with the real-ness of this personal story of self-recovery from Melody Godfred, co-creator of the Self Love Pinky Ring.
From both a clinical and personal perspective, her story is so relate-able and so important.
As wives, husbands, partners, parents, friends -- as people with the fundamental need for healthy attachments -- we must start understanding the value of {balanced} self-love and self-care as part of our relational health. We just can't stress this enough.
"Self-love for so long was associated solely with narcissism. You would think self loves makes it harder for you to love others. But it doesn’t. Exactly the opposite.When you are full, you have a well to pull from in service to others" (Godfred, 2016).
Life usually doesn't get easier as it continues ... certain things may ... but it's nature that our responsibilities grow continuously - especially when marriage, family, and raising kids kicks in on top of managing life in general.
Unfortunately, it's all too easy to get lost in the madness and lose yourself.
"As I grew older and responsibilities mounted, two things started to happen: I became a perfectionist (which means I was not only hard on myself, I was extremely hard on everyone else), and I became a self-sacrificer. Now neither of these things was a stretch: I am the latest in a long line of superwomen who are adept at martyring themselves in service to others" (Godfred, 2016).
...and as you may have experienced already, perfect parenting certainly doesn't exist, perfect marriages are just not a thing, and self-sacrificing really only hurts yourself and everyone around you.
So, I encourage you to take a coffee break from your busy day, check out the full article, and really think about what comes up...
...are you on your life train?? Or did you forget yourself at the station?
Please click here to view full article on Huffington Post, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, or via email!
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