Dear Tiffany,
Today was an off day. An on and off day.
But here, a moment of gentleness and self-compassion. You are two days into a 14-day program of self-compassion. Give yourself what you are helping others give themselves.
You’re facilitating the course, but you need it as much as anyone else who signed up.
And in the off moments, this feels like failure. Today was an off day, there were many of these moments.
But it was an on and off day. There were other moments.
For a while before you recorded the video today, you read back through your Year of Self-Care posts. In 2013 and 2014, you undertook a major project to learn how to do sustainable self-care. You did a good job. You have valuable skills, insights, experiences, knowledge. You do. I promise.
There were other good moments today, too. Family moments and friend moments.
An on and off day.
This picture is of some street art in Melbourne, Australia. It feels hopeful and gloomy in the way that you are gloomy and hopeful, Gloom Fairy. The moon, the dark forest, the raven heart. Gloom and glimmer. You don’t need to excise the gloom. You don’t need to become anything other than what you are.
On and off and onward.
Love,
Me
64/365
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Image description: A page from a book, with art drawn over the words. A figure is sitting with the back to the viewer, face turned to be in profile. Their torso is full of an image of a forest and a crow or raven is flying. In the upper right of the page, a yellow crescent moon. The page is signed Jover.
