Jan 26, 2015

Honoring What We May Want

  1. "I've come to understand that without the healthiest form of self love -- without honoring the essence of life that this thing called "self" carries; the way a pod carries a seed -- putting another before you can result in damaging self-sacrifice and co-dependence." Mark Nepo

    I've struggled with this my whole life, and it is particularly perilous in caregiving.  How do we honor our own self and our wants and needs -- while also attending to the wants and needs of another?  A very challenging task.  Far too easily we can become immersed in the needs of the other, or we can abandon the other for our own wants and desires.  I think what we are looking for is balance.  Seeing to the needs of the other without sacrificing our own.  How do you do that?

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