Shower Thoughts, Christmas Edition ✨️

Good morning everyone and happy holidays! I wanted to share some rainy day shower thoughts with you on these days leading up to Christmas 🎄

I was going over my astrological chart last night and was surprised at how accurate it was. If you haven't checked out your own chart yet, I highly recommend doing it. It can help you understand yourself more completely; why you act the way you do, and what will give you the most satisfying and fulfilling life.

We walk through this life, bumping into many different kinds of people: people who have different personalities than us, differently backgrounds, different strengths and weaknesses, different triggers and traumas, different points of view... yet we all are told we need to become more the same. This couldn't be further from the truth.

What we need is to live in our truth, as our own unique and authentic selves. We all want the same things: we want safety, love, validation, and respect, among other things... yet we all find these things through different means, and different pathways.

The way I feel satisfied and fulfilled may be different than my friend, yet being a good friend is understanding what the other person needs and not forcing them to become someone they're not.

Along with understanding what 'makes us tick,' is also giving ourselves permission to be disliked. Not everyone is going to be our best friend, yet we walk through this world as though it is a popularity contest; I see this especially on social media, where we acquire as many 'likes' as we can and what if so-and-so doesn't like a certain post, than that means I must've done something wrong, etc...

This is a dangerous mentality to walk around with because it takes away from our true authentic selves. We're placing our own validation on someone elses response or reaction to us. In truth, it doesn't mean as much as we think it does. The weight we put on other peoples reactions to us, and the emotional upheaval we put ourselves through is exhausting and unnecessary; taking away from the joy of life.

We can only reach that state of peace when we know who we are deep down, underneath it all, and we live according to that truth, while letting others do the same.

No guilt trip, no popularity contest, no stripping of ourselves to please others; just living in truth and our own state of being, which will bring us lasting peace 🤍

When we understand ourselves and live in our truth, it also takes away the weight of competing with others.

Competing with others is a killer of joy; instead of comparing ourselves to others and trying to one-up or outdo our friends and neighbors, we should be competing against ourselves, constantly shedding off old skin and reaching a higher state of being as we evolve and grow through life.

We are all at different stages of existence, and we all have different strengths and weaknesses, as well as different gifts; so getting lost in the world of comparing ourselves to others is a losing game, where we lose ourselves in the process.

We need to be comfortable with ourselves just the way we are; stripping away everything, cutting out the noise, and loving ourselves underneath it all 💗

Do you love yourself first, or do you think its selfish? Remember, in times of emergency we must first put on our own oxygen mask, before we help others put on theirs.

We cannot pour from an empty cup... therefore loving ourselves is just another way we can help others ✨️

Blessings and peace be with you 🙏