When I coach women I find lots of them that do too much for everyone else and forget themselves. I hope something in this post can help you to know, YOU ARE IMPORTANT AND YOU ARE WORTH IT!!
I have learned that when I am a person that can do everything myself, people will let me do EVERYTHING, even when I'm exhausted.
When I don't have an opinion on the restaurants, vacations, and movies I go to, guess what? Other people pick where they want to go. It is my own fault when I end up at a sushi restaurant when I hate sushi.
Women don't have any problem buying new clothes, classes and camps for their kids but some don't save any money for clothes, classes and girl trips for themselves. If you don't think you are worth it, your children will begin to think you aren't worth it either.
Have you known women who think they are worth a manicure or a new outfit? Everyone else knows they deserve it too.
Don't you want your husband and children to have one of those mom's and wives that think highly of themselves, have opinions and think they deserve a nice life too?
People get treated, how they treat themselves.
You can only love others as much as you love yourself.
Think you are worth it and others will think you are worth it.
Have an opinion and others will admire you for having one.
Jewel has a song called Stronger Woman
My favorite line in the song is
Well tonight, I’m going to beThe kind of woman I’d want my daughter to be
We have to model the kind of person we want our children to be. We want them to know that women and mother's are important. We want our daughters to treat themselves as an important valuable person, not grow up to be martyrs or doormats. When we are respected by our husbands and children when they grow up they will expect respect as well.
Here is the chorus of Jewel's song.
I’m gonna love myself more than anyone else
Believe in me, even if someone can’t see
There’s a stronger woman in me
I’m gonna be my own best friend
Stick with me till the end
I won’t lose myself again, never, no
Cause there’s a stronger woman
A stronger woman in me.
2 comments:
great post!!... it is hard to think about yourself sometimes when everyone relies on you. Thanks for the reminder!
Many thanks for quoting me Carla
It's one of my favorites things to say to folks especially women. We need to reframe our perception of selfish-ness into one of self-care. Permission is the key to say yes to fulfilling our needs so that we can show up in the world to the people and things we care about. You might also like this post: http://tinyurl.com/5a3alh
Cheers,
Lorraine
www.powerfull-living.biz
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