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It\u2019s usually on birthdays and holidays that we are reminded just how much we are loved –\u00a0whether it comes from that one person who gives us just the words we need to hear, or many who send us a \u2018happy birthday\u2019 line or a funny GIF.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I experienced a beautiful tidal wave of so much love and support this past Thursday. Thank you for that!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I felt deeply loved, appreciated, and supported. And perhaps because I didn\u2019t rush through that feeling, but took it in with deep, slow, grounding breaths, a beautiful knowing showed up.\u00a0I didn\u2019t always feel loved, appreciated, and supported.\u00a0<\/em>A gentle inner voice formed the thought.\u00a0Love was always there\u2026 what was different was me.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Friend, it is such a gift to be on this side of a healing journey! It is so good to be free of fear and doubt that tells us we don\u2019t deserve the love shown to us. To be able to lean in and relax into love\u00a0and to receive it freely is that seemingly elusive treasure humans seek.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I pray every one of you experiences this deep knowing that you are appreciated, loved, and supported right now.<\/span><\/p>\n There are several pieces to this. It\u2019s not enough to have someone tell us or show us they love and appreciate us. WE have to believe it and receive it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Believing we are loved starts with the awareness of who we really are and how we are an important part of the whole creation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n From there, we start feeling a connection with nature, with the sun and the moon, and everything in between. Feeling connected brings a sense of belonging\u00a0and we fall in love with Life itself. From there, we begin to be aware of how everything in Creation returns appreciation, love, and support back to us. Even people \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is that this journey can\u2019t be forced. Each of us makes it at our own pace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What slows us down are many distractions from the world we live in.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|on” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.4em” custom_padding=”|8px||7px|false|false”]<\/p>\n It\u2019s usually on birthdays and holidays that we are reminded just how much we are loved –\u00a0whether it comes from that one person who gives us just the words we need to hear, or many who send us a \u2018happy birthday\u2019 line or a funny GIF.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I experienced a beautiful tidal wave of so much love and support this past Thursday. Thank you for that!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I felt deeply loved, appreciated, and supported. And perhaps because I didn\u2019t rush through that feeling, but took it in with deep, slow, grounding breaths, a beautiful knowing showed up.\u00a0I didn\u2019t always feel loved, appreciated, and supported.\u00a0<\/em>A gentle inner voice formed the thought.\u00a0Love was always there\u2026 what was different was me.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Friend, it is such a gift to be on this side of a healing journey! It is so good to be free of fear and doubt that tells us we don\u2019t deserve the love shown to us. To be able to lean in and relax into love\u00a0and to receive it freely is that seemingly elusive treasure humans seek.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I pray every one of you experiences this deep knowing that you are appreciated, loved, and supported right now.<\/span><\/p>\n There are several pieces to this. It\u2019s not enough to have someone tell us or show us they love and appreciate us. WE have to believe it and receive it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Believing we are loved starts with the awareness of who we really are and how we are an important part of the whole creation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n From there, we start feeling a connection with nature, with the sun and the moon, and everything in between. Feeling connected brings a sense of belonging\u00a0and we fall in love with Life itself. From there, we begin to be aware of how everything in Creation returns appreciation, love, and support back to us. Even people \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is that this journey can\u2019t be forced. Each of us makes it at our own pace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What slows us down are many distractions from the world we live in.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Blog-SM-posts-5-1024×1024.png” title_text=”2021 Blog SM posts (5)” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” width=”55%” hover_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|off|off” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.4em” custom_padding=”|124px||124px|false|false”]<\/p>\n We spend our youth trying to find our place under the sun – with very little guidance on how not to get lost in the process. We listen to our career advisors, we compare our grades with our peers. <\/span><\/p>\n Then, as adults, we compare our paychecks\u00a0or the size of diamonds on our engagement rings. We try to keep up with our jobs, mortgages, raising families, and showing up all put together at church on Sunday mornings, constantly checking if we are doing – and being – enough.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We practice this routine of having to do better and be better so much that\u00a0when Love says\u00a0I love you the way you are right now<\/em>,\u00a0we don\u2019t know how to take it in<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We get really good at criticizing and pushing ourselves. Treating ourselves with kindness and compassion feels selfish, and self-care and self-love become bad words. On our birthdays and special occasions, when we get showered with love, appreciation, and support, we say a quick \u2018thank you\u2019 and keep keeping busy. It\u2019s safer, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Around my 40th birthday, I decided I was done with treating myself poorly. I had spent my best years being too hard on myself, and hating so many things that I didn\u2019t know how to fix: like being too sensitive, disorganized, always late, hyper-creative, too ambitious, too emotional, etc (the list went on and on).<\/span><\/p>\n At that point, I had been in therapy for several years\u00a0and had finally healed many of the wounds that were causing me to resent parts of myself. As I removed different filters that were distorting my awareness of who I was, I learned that I am not my thoughts, my actions, my feelings, my personality.<\/span><\/p>\n I learned that\u00a0I’m not who\u00a0I had been told I should be<\/em>. I worked with a coach to change many of my thought patterns, habits and behaviors, and through this process, I learned what to do with different feelings and emotions. No longer letting my thoughts convince me I was bad or never enough, I began to take in all the different miracles and gifts life brought to me daily – and feel incredibly grateful for each one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gratitude then triggers more grace, which opens up our pores and cells so we are able to receive all the Love that is constantly available to us – and shows up through nature, through synchronicities, through raindrops, and rainbows, handwritten cards, and random emojis received in text messages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|on” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.4em” custom_padding=”|16px||6px|false|false”]<\/p>\n We spend our youth trying to find our place under the sun – with very little guidance on how not to get lost in the process. We listen to our career advisors, we compare our grades with our peers.<\/span><\/p>\n Then, as adults, we compare our paychecks\u00a0or the size of diamonds on our engagement rings. We try to keep up with our jobs, mortgages, raising families, and showing up all put together at church on Sunday mornings, constantly checking if we are doing – and being – enough.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We practice this routine of having to do better and be better so much that\u00a0when Love says\u00a0I love you the way you are right now<\/em>,\u00a0we don\u2019t know how to take it in<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We get really good at criticizing and pushing ourselves. Treating ourselves with kindness and compassion feels selfish, and self-care and self-love become bad words. On our birthdays and special occasions, when we get showered with love, appreciation, and support, we say a quick \u2018thank you\u2019 and keep keeping busy. It\u2019s safer, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Around my 40th birthday, I decided I was done with treating myself poorly. I had spent my best years being too hard on myself, and hating so many things that I didn\u2019t know how to fix: like being too sensitive, disorganized, always late, hyper-creative, too ambitious, too emotional, etc (the list went on and on).<\/span><\/p>\n At that point, I had been in therapy for several years\u00a0and had finally healed many of the wounds that were causing me to resent parts of myself. As I removed different filters that were distorting my awareness of who I was, I learned that I am not my thoughts, my actions, my feelings, my personality.<\/span><\/p>\n I learned that\u00a0I’m not who\u00a0I had been told I should be<\/em>. I worked with a coach to change many of my thought patterns, habits and behaviors, and through this process, I learned what to do with different feelings and emotions. No longer letting my thoughts convince me I was bad or never enough, I began to take in all the different miracles and gifts life brought to me daily – and feel incredibly grateful for each one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gratitude then triggers more grace, which opens up our pores and cells so we are able to receive all the Love that is constantly available to us – and shows up through nature, through synchronicities, through raindrops, and rainbows, handwritten cards, and random emojis received in text messages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/FINAL_Blog-Banner-TC.com-11.png” title_text=”FINAL_Blog Banner TC.com (11)” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|off|off” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.4em” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px|124px||124px||”]<\/p>\n And that, my friend, makes life beautiful\u2026and such a gift!<\/span><\/p>\n Thank you for being you<\/strong>\u00a0– know you are appreciated, loved, and supported!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Here is my birthday wish for you:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My birthday wish is\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n for you to learn to listen to your heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Really listen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Not think you are listening,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0not speak for it,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n but learn to silence your thoughts\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and let it guide you.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0It will show you how to love.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0How to accept yourself,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n how to grow,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and how to heal.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0It will help you see the beauty\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n within you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and around you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You will never look at yourself\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n with self-hatred or resentment then.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You won\u2019t shame yourself\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n or anyone else any more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You will know compassion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You\u2019ll see miracles in everything –<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0in fireflies and puppy eyes,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in a child\u2019s smile and<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0in the faces of random people you meet.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0In raindrops and rainbows\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and in deep blue skies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You\u2019ll fall in love with love each morning and<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0fall on your knees in gratitude each night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You\u2019ll celebrate each moment of your life<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0like an Olympian or a rockstar\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n who\u2019s given a life time achievement award.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You\u2019ll grow old and know you\u2019ve lived\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n the life of your dreams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The storms and losses and hardships<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0won\u2019t break you because\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n your heart will comfort you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n with deep knowing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n that Love is always there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Inseparable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Eternal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Present.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Even if it takes you a while, it\u2019s ok.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Some of us have a lot of healing to do<\/span><\/p>\n before we are able to trust our hearts again.<\/span><\/p>\n Be gentle and patient with yourself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Reach out for support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And know I love you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|on” _builder_version=”4.5.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”2.4em” min_height=”49px” custom_padding=”0px||0px|||”]<\/p>\n And that, my friend, makes life beautiful\u2026and such a gift!<\/span><\/p>\n Thank you for being you<\/strong>\u00a0– know you are appreciated, loved, and supported!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Here is my birthday wish for you:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My birthday wish is\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n for you to learn to listen to your heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Really listen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Not think you are listening,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0not speak for it,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n but learn to silence your thoughts\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and let it guide you.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0It will show you how to love.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0How to accept yourself,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n how to grow,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and how to heal.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0It will help you see the beauty\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n within you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and around you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You will never look at yourself\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n with self-hatred or resentment then.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You won\u2019t shame yourself\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n or anyone else any more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You will know compassion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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