Celebrate Your Wins

It’s important to celebrate our victories, whether big, small or even minute. I’ve come a long way in the past 5 years and I forget to celebrate that. I forget to celebrate how much better I feel, how much more energy I have, how much I’ve learned about myself, and how much I’ve transformed physically, emotionally and spiritually. I tend to focus on what isn’t instead of what is. Being on a healing journey has led me to constantly be doing, trying, searching, hoping, seeking, and it’s often left me feeling less than, that who I am and what I’m doing isn’t enough. It’s depleting.

I often forget that my body is my friend and not my enemy. It’s here to keep me healthy, happy, and wants to help me succeed. It’s not fighting me, it’s here to support me. It’s a vessel for my soul and to witness it for less than its greatness is to deny its magnificence. Dealing with an illness or imbalances can feel as though your body is fighting or has failed you. In fact, it’s only trying to communicate with you. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a serious diagnosis before we start paying attention.

Celebrating can mean taking just 30 seconds and congratulating yourself for making a healthy, constructive choice: picking up that apple over the bag of chips, going for a walk instead of watching TV, going to bed earlier, asking for help, expressing yourself truthfully, reducing your sugar intake, signing up for a meditation class, sitting down with a cup of tea and spending 10 minutes with yourself, handling a difficult situation with grace and confidence, starting a journaling practice, not scolding yourself when you checked Instagram during a digital detox, or even having that piece of chocolate and not feeling guilty about it. These are all wins and deserve to be recognized.

Congratulate yourself on your evolution and growth. It’s so easy to come down on ourselves for not being where we want to be, health, relationship, or career wise. Everything has it’s time. Rushing never helps. You are always in the right place.

Tomorrow is a new day and you can choose at any moment to change what needs to be changed. Why is it so hard? We are creatures of habit and comfort. Growth is expansive, uncomfortable, scary, and unknown. Our egos like security and safety, which usually means keeping us small.

I’ve learned to be my biggest fan and supporter. The relationship you have with yourself if the most important one you’ll ever have. So invest in it. Show up for yourself.  Feed yourself nourishing food, spend time outdoors, spend time with yourself, listen to your intuition and say no to anything that doesn’t serve your highest self. This is an ever evolving practice. Go easy on yourself. One day you’ll be where you want to be.

This journey can be incredibly difficult, frustrating, lonely and disheartening. You’re not alone. Heck, we’re all in the same boat but no one likes to talk about it. Simply existing on this earth in this day and age isn’t easy, so congratulations, you’ve made it this far. Don’t stop, keep going! And remember, when you get tired, it’s okay to rest. No guilt or shame for it.

Celebrate yourself and the world will celebrate you.