Process of Appreciation

 After releasing so much heavy stuff you have to get yourself back to a place of love, peace, and appreciation of how far you have come. In healing it gets so heavy that at times we forget the beauty in who were are and how great life has been besides those moments that brought us so much pain. 

Appreciation seems to be something that a lot of people have a hard time with especially when needing to express it to others and ourselves. We forget to appreciate what we have done, overcome, and even accomplished in life; because we have been conditioned that it's not important to show love to oneself or those around for what they have done. Well that is wrong thinking because truthfully we need that recharge from within and around to help us do better and to keep going.

Lately in my own personal journey, I realized that I have not been recharging myself or even giving myself that type of appreciation that is needed that I know that I am doing a great job and to keep pushing. So I made a decision to make sure that I started creating time for self-care and to show myself the type of love I desire to receive from others in appreciation.

Now do not get me wrong it will not come easy to walk into something that you may not be use to or never ever really received; but in these next few post of mine I am going to express what you should do to tap into your appreciation as I openly tap into mine. 

The journey of healing takes you down many roads but remember that there is one that is really important and that road is SELF-LOVE because you have to always get to a place of being everything you look for in others for yourself. Yes you have to be the person you want in your life for yourself as well. 

Many people do not think about being the person they desire to date or be with to/for themselves. It's like how can you know that what's you want and how you want to be treated if you are not able to do it for yourself; that makes no sense because you can make a list all day but truthfully you do not know how it feels to be treated that way if you are continually treating yourself like you do not matter.

What you allow yourself to do to you subconsciously you will allow from others; think about it how many times have you forgot about you? Your desires? Your feelings? Your self-care? Then think how many times other people have forgotten the same things; you see people only care about what YOU care about. If you stop caring they will too, unless you have people (Like the ones around me) that continue to remind you to show YOU that YOU MATTER. 

So now we are going to face the process of APPRECIATION together in my journey to #SurvivingLife

-Jess Lore'al