Closing the Door on the Past

How often do you look back on the past and is it in celebration or to punish yourself? The thing about the past is it is there both to teach us and to torture us at the same time. There's a trick to it.

The past is there to be learned from, the key here is learn. This does not mean that you get to bring up the past to make yourself feel bad. To live a life full of regrets. Learn the lesson and then move joyfully on, putting it behind you.

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”  – Helen Keller

Self Love is all about being kind to yourself and to do that you must not hold on too tightly to your mistakes. Acknowledge them and then let them go off into the night. They are not for you anymore. I sometimes have those days where my mind wanders back to the past, where I beat myself up for so much wasted time making mistakes and being unhappy.

Yet it wasn't wasted. It brought me here, to this place... this place where things are better and I am more whole than I was. Today I want you to make a conscious effort in loving yourself enough to let your mistakes go, let the pain go, be proud of the fact that you made it out the other side.

I'm proud of you.

“Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it is good only for wallowing.”  – Katherine Mansfield