Hi everyone! This week I’m in Costa Rica leading 14 women on a spiritual adventure retreat. I’d love for you to join us next year! So because I’m off doing things like zip-lining, yoga, surfing, and meditating (rough, I know), this week I’m sharing the words of someone else with you…

This is a declaration of self-esteem written by Virginia Satir. Each time I read it, I am reminded of who I truly am. Take in these words today to remind yourself of the truth of who you are:

In all the world,
there is no one else exactly like me –
everything that comes out of me is authentically mine,
because I alone choose it – I own everything about me – my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions,
whether they be to others or to myself –
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears –
I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me – by so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts –
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
and other aspects that I do not know –
but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me –
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do,
and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me – If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turned out to be unfitting, I can discard that which I feel is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded –
I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do.
I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive,
and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me –
I own me, and therefore I can engineer me –
I am me &
I AM OKAY

Love and Pura Vida (that’s what we say in Costa Rica),

Christine