Unconditionally

In all the years of chronic pain (nearly fourteen years for me)
I realised that besides, “you will heal”, what I most wanted to hear (or feel, not everything needs to be said)
is something only one person (my mom) has ever said to me:
” I will never give up on you.”

People who don’t carry ‘this burden’, don’t fully know how it is, this life. They simply cannot.

But…..as I often do when I wonder if someone is offering me what I need or not;
I go within and ask——do we even say this to ourselves? Do we?
Do we unconditionally support OURSELVES in this way? If the answer is NO, can we even expect or hope to hear it from others, who don’t know how it feels to live like this? It is not easy to ask yourself this….but it is rewarding and it comes down to self-love and is an unavoidable part of healing. We owe this to ourselves.

Today I will say it to myself-and tomorrow again- and I want you to say it to yourself:
“I will never give up on me”. ❤