Learning to Trust Myself.

I guess learning to be yourself and learning to trust other begins with beginning to trust yourself, and accept who you are, and love who you are.

I really think I'm beginning to trust myself.

For the last 7 years, I've been a shell of a person I don't recognize anymore.  Last night, I began to open up to the possibility that I'm still awesome.  I'm not just a mom.  I love my family, and would move mountains for them.  But I need to realize that, in order to be the healthiest ME I can be, in order to be the best mother I can be, I need to have time for myself.  Not everything needs to be about my family.  Although, if it came down to it, they are number one, of course.

I'm not trying to be selfish, and maybe that's what I was so afraid of for so many years.  I don't want to be labelled a selfish person.  I want to be known as the one who would give the shirt off her back for anyone.  I love sharing everything I have.  Sometimes, I want to say no, but again, the good, decent, giving person inside of me always goes back to yes...

It's time to open up some doors in my life.  And get back to being me.