A Reflection on Self Awareness and Self Care: Giving from the Wound or the Gift?
You are Worthy of Your Own Love & Care! When you have a heart of compassion and a purpose that is all about helping others live their best lives, you can easily lose yourself within that quest. Especially if you identify as being an empath, a wounded healer, an Enneagram type 2, have a tendency towards being co-dependent, a recovering "people pleaser", and/or have any wound connected to feeling worthy or valuable only when you were/are taking care of others. You feel me? Our unique and amazing gifts grow out of our wounds. We can shift from these two points of reference in subtle ways and suddenly we are giving from our wound and not our gift. It takes self-awareness and present-moment focus to notice if and when we are giving from our wounds and not our gifts. Here is a simple way I discovered to differentiate: When we are giving from our wounded places, we feel exhausted, resentful, unwell, disconnected from own needs, and most like