It's Not Enough to Want, You Need Tools

What are the tools I need to have the courage to keep on living, learning and being hopeful?

Validation.

Who I am, what I am fighting, where I am coming from; the strength I draw on just to get up every morning. With this knowledge in the forefront of my mind, I am able to appreciate myself and remember to have the patience and compassion i deserve.

I will be able to better understand that I am not stuck in my trauma, in my patterns. I can remember that I can change, I have strength and I can use it, and I don't have to be filled with anxiety.

It's vital to start at the level I am truly on so that I can be successful.

A reminder to myself:

I am loving, lovable, kind, delightful. I am all these things not because anybody noticed and told me so, but because these are the gifts of the personality G-d gave me. I am dynamic, empathic, sensitive, and I am using these tools to live, learn and love.

These things are true regardless of ANYBODY ELSE'S OPINION. These are FACTS ABOUT ME.

I am worthy. I am worthy of love, appreciation, friendship and respect.

My aspirations: to be an ambassador of LOVE, HEALING, LIGHT, HOPE, REDEMPTION, COMPASSION, TRUTH in this world.

Sometimes I remember what love really is, what the spirit of love really is. Sometimes I remember that it's a giving energy, that we can love and be loved even when we don't deserve it.