#former self

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

Forgive your former self. That version of you handled it all the best way you thought you could at the time. Since then, you've worked tirelessly to do and be better. Extend to yourself the love, grace, forgiveness, and mercy you extend to everyone else. The past version of yourself deserves forgiveness and the present version of yourself deserves peace.

Morgan Richard Olivier - the freedom of forward

[balanceisrelative]

Just had a funeral for my former self.

I actually had a plant that I named after my dead name last year before starting this rediscovery journey. Right around the time I started therapy and my journey with the craft, it started dying. My treatment of it hadn't changed, but it was a very clear sign from Spirit and my guides as to what was happening to my identity.

It represented the very real and slow death of who I used to be. The fear I lived in, the lies I had internalized as truth, the self loathing I held for never feeling like I belonged in my skin, let alone this world.

But over the past few months, I've allowed myself to feel, I've allowed myself to be uncomfortable with my past and the people in it, I allowed myself to be... Something my former self never knew how to do...As I allowed myself to rediscover the person that the world tried so DESPERATELY to kill, time and time again, I saw the version of myself who the world created, die.

I buried her today. I wept for her today. I thank her and blessed her for protecting me and keeping me as long as she did. And I released her to Gaia and Spirit. Buried her with a marker and everything. She doesn't deserve to be forgotten, she was too strong, too invincible, too beautiful, to be forgotten; but her purposed has been fulfilled. She doesn't have to fight anymore, she doesn't have to cry anymore, she doesn't have to loath the rising sun anymore; she can rest. Finally.

I feel more more myself now, than I ever have in my life. I feel even more comfortable in mind because I feel my heart letting those years of fear, go. Will I continue to grieve for her? Yea, I lived with her for 26 years, she was all I knew. But I'm ready to nurture Nikki, and allow myself to be all I've ever wanted to be.

I hope you all are allowing yourselves to feel authentically, that's where liberation lives💜.

[onlyhurtforaminute]

HELLTH-DAMAGE CONTROL

[festering-cadaver]

[iscariotx]

Shameful.

What echoes of this former self await me here?

-Michael, The Good Place S4E5

[pretentioushouseandgnome]

this might just be my ocd speaking but like, i was a terrible person at age 12/13 but i like to think that i have changed, what i found funny then absolutly horrifies me now so in the off chance that someone diggs up my first blog and/or twitter i would like to apologize and state that i was unaware of the damage that my actions were having on the people around me.i would also like to state that we all need to call out our younger selves, just cause i was a dick in years 7&8 doesnt mean that i cant grow to be a decent person now

[loftydreams101]

A Forgotten Voice

I’m pursued by a distant voice, By the twisted songs Of my former self They curse every traitorous urge   I conceive in the present Set aflame By my fearless stagger Into ash and oblivion          

[loveandknowledge]

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway