09/14/2026
Which one of these speaks to you? So many speak to me!!! Choosing myself is one that resonates, as so many times I have pushed down my own hurt in order for other people to feel OK. Still working on it, but realizing that other people‘s emotions are not my responsibility.😌🩷. Share which one it is for you!
Choosing yourself isn’t selfish.
I think somewhere along the way, especially as women, so many of us were taught that putting ourselves first meant we were letting somebody else down.
So we become good at being everything for everyone.
We keep the peace.
We say yes when we want to say no.
We carry things that were never ours to carry.
We ignore what our own body is telling us.
And we keep going… because that’s what we’ve always done.
I did it for years.
Until eventually I realised I had spent so much of my life trying to be who everybody else needed me to be, I’d almost completely lost sight of who I was.
And it came at a cost.
So these days, I choose myself.
Not because I don’t care about other people.
But because I finally understand that I matter too.
My peace matters.
My health matters.
My time matters.
My needs matter.
The life I want to live matters.
And I’m no longer willing to abandon myself just to make everybody else comfortable.
Choosing yourself might mean saying no.
Walking away.
Changing your mind.
Starting again.
Disappointing someone.
Or simply asking yourself for once…
What do I actually want?
That isn’t selfish.
Sometimes choosing yourself is the very thing that brings you back to life.
And if you’re finally starting to do that too…
I hope you celebrate the hell out of it. 🤍✨
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