My self-love journey is ongoing. Some days I love myself and am impressed with myself to the point of borderline arrogance. I'm obnoxious and annoyed that you don't know how perfect and amazing I am. Some days I look in the mirror and I see a knuckle. Or an elbow. Or a knee cap. No, I'm not talking about the body parts - I'm saying there are days when I think I look like an ashy knuckle, elbow, or a knee cap. It's a whole thing. Pray! Lol! . . . But a thing that I have always been capable of is watching a sunset on my own. Me... I am my own Beloved and there is no greater skill that I have than that of giving me sweetness, and gentleness, and silence, and long walks, and movie dates, and dinner, and dessert before dinner, and candles, and baths, and #MarvinGaye on repeat at midnight for kids reason and also for reasons, and whatever else it is that I need to feel less like a knuckle and more like my #genius self - more consistently. . . . I haven't been in a seriously committed relationship in 9 years. I remember when my last relationship ended, this elder at the church I went to told me to get over my ex by moving on to the next. LOL! That is some ole toxic advice if I've ever heard it. I didn't mean to be single for 9 years but I'm so glad I knew that she was wrong and that it was good for me to heal through before I moved on. I am such a marvelous version of myself. I'm so glad that I get to live this life and this calling and this gift and this grace. And I'm also so grateful that I had sense enough to begin the real work of healing before I enter another long term relationship/partnership because I get to manifest my beloved from this version of myself and not the version of myself that thought the best had come when surely the best was yet to come. . . . (deep exhale) More than anything, I'm glad I had sense enough to not wait until someone else decided to love me to love me because even on the days when I look like an ashy elbow I still know I am #worthy and worth all the good love that God (&me) has to give. #HappyValentinesDay "Treat yoself!" #TheFreePeopleProject #SelfLove #BestLove #Valentines #ILoveMyself #ZoraNealeHurston #SlowDance #SummerWalker https://www.instagram.com/p/B8kWm6pppIl/?igshid=1w94t3zwae7wu