Today, know that it is your responsibility and privilege to care for yourself as an excellent parent cares for a beloved child: not enabling or excusing, but providing healthy food, rest, loving attention, guidance, challenge, forgiveness, acceptance, play, and honest feedback. Love itself gives you the wisdom and energy to do this.
Some of us haven't learned to take good care of ourselves. Maybe, as children, the adults in our lives weren't skilled at caring for us - or didn't care well for themselves and offer good models. Maybe our culture or communities have offered some warped perspectives: maybe we think the only model of love and service is self-sacrifice. Maybe we think an artistic person or a real man doesn't bother with self-care.
Today, know that it is your responsibility and privilege to care for yourself as an excellent parent cares for a beloved child: not enabling or excusing, but providing healthy food, rest, loving attention, guidance, challenge, forgiveness, acceptance, play, and honest feedback. Love itself gives you the wisdom and energy to do this.
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AuthorTarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm and numerous essays. You may read more of her work at tarnwilson.com. Archives
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