Befriending Ourselves: An Invitation to Love

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July 28, 2019 a project of ServiceSpace We discover a gracious capacity for empathy when we learn to lean into our hurt places with the tender curiosity and care of a close friend. - Kristi Nelson - Befriending Ourselves: An Invitation to Love Is self-improvement sometimes a disguised version of self-agrression? If the focus is always on how I might be "better" in the future, it can be hard to extend toward myself a hand of friendship and compassion. I miss out on the present miracle of who I am NOW. Maybe moving from a perspective of improvement toward one of healing actually begins with loving my current messiness. { read more } Be The Change Get a hand mirror and spend a few moments appreciatively gazing into the eyes of your own miraculous being. Then spend the rest of the day in the company of your own friendship. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News One Teacher's Brilliant response to Columbine Moshe Feldenkrais: Learn to Learn Turning Rain, Ice and Trees into Ephemeral Works When Someone Threw Coffee at My Face How to Be Yourself The Life of Death The Joy of Being a Woman in Her Seventies 7 Simple Ways to Cultivate Comfort DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,903 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More