Positive Reflections

One of the things I am passionate about is helping people see and feel the strength, beauty, and resilient spirit that resides within them. Sometimes we need a little reminder when the world starts to weigh heavy on us, or when the merciless inner bully begins to barrage us with its insults.

Many of us have negative programming that runs consistently in our heads that tell us how bad we are. Worthless, unlovable, not enough of x,y,z, and a host of other unhelpful and untrue beliefs that may have been implanted in childhood. These outdated and false beliefs keep up from bringing the totality of our immense potential to bear on our world and in our own lives.

My goal and intention of creating these mirrors is to serve as little reminders for ourselves that we are bright, beautiful, worthy and lovable just as we are. We were born good and worthy. Sometimes our upbringing and the world beats that out of us, but we get the choice of reclaiming our inherent goodness and inborn lovability every single day. We get to interrupt the near endless streams of negative thinking with awareness and say, “no, no…thank you for your input, but I no longer tolerate you talking to me like that anymore. I deserve love, respect, kindness, and understanding when I make mistakes. I am human and I am spirit. I am born good, worthy, and more than enough.” Even if you don’t believe it at first, over time, the more you begin to catch the inner bully and and change your inner dialogue to one of positive encouragement, you will begin to notice a change in your emotional state, which will bring the potential of choosing new, updated behaviors that reflect your bourgeoning sense of worth and lovability.

We can still grow, change, and evolve any behavior or personality trait that is unhelpful or destructive, but we can do it with kindness and compassion for ourselves. Seemingly destructive or self-sabotaging behaviors once served a very good function in our lives. If we can find the positive intention behind the trait or behavior and the need it was filling at the time it came into being, we can begin to have more compassion for ourselves and design other updated strategies that will fill that need. Awareness breeds change.

And for children-and all of us(inner children included)-growing up in today’s world of harsh messaging in the media as to what is good, beautiful, and worthy of love and praise, I see these mirrors as a refuge of truth-the deep truth of our being-and a stand against the negative messaging that floods social media and newsfeeds.

You are beautiful, lovable, worthy, and enough.