"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." Brené Brown
I speak to myself a lot. When I complete a difficult task, I tell myself what a great job I did. When I create or allow fulfilling events in my life, I remind myself I did so.
On Friday, I spent hours updating my website.
The changes took a while given the hosting platform complexities. With everything in place and ready to go, I inadvertently pressed a key which deleted the entire page I'd been working on.
Not only do I not know which key it was, the usual ways of restoring the most recent iteration did not work.
I could have blamed, criticized and chastised myself. That can be a go to response.
Having set my intention earlier for how I wanted it to to be clearer for clients, I left the half completed website as it was.
For hours.
I went about the other things I had planned for the day.
Then, as I sat down at my computer again, I talked to myself.
Kindly. Compassionately. Patiently.
About how I'd originally arranged for a web designer to create it for me and how I did it myself when he had a deadline to meet. About how pleased I was with the site in general. About how I view my content. About how I figured out the nuances of the platform, with its ever changing format, quickly and easily.
I told myself the truth.
Which is what I would do with a friend or anyone else.
And then I opened the site in Edit mode and pressed 3 keys, in quick succession.
The lost page was restored minus 2 small changes.
Tending to how I felt earlier, with kindness and deep care, set the stage for me to re-engage, focused and calm.
This is what happens when I practice self care in this way, talking to myself as I would someone I love.
Honoring, on this day, all those who are fathers and father figures to children and adults alike.
Those who show us how to embody masculine energy in ways that support us on our journey.
Honoring and celebrating you all!
Photo by Donald Gianetti
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