Diana's Healing Message for January

Happy New Year Courageous Survivors!  I am hoping you found a way to enjoy all that Christmas means to you and are ready to tackle 2023.

I am here to help you in your healing journey and the month of January signals a new start for you and me.

I encourage you to find a word or phrase for 2023 that will help you in your healing journey.  My word for 2023 is LOVE.  I will love myself more first and foremost.  We, as survivors, tend to put our needs on the back burner perhaps because we do not feel we are worthy.  I am here to tell you YOU ARE WORTHY OF YOUR SELF LOVE.

Growing up I only wanted to please others and have someone love me.  My father loved me in all the wrong ways and my mother was incapable of love.  I have no memory of either of my parents telling me they loved me and I would find any avenue to garner their love.  I misconstrued my father’s sexual abuse towards me as love and all I wanted was a mother that would wrap her arms around me in love rather than a horse whip in beatings.  I owned a dog, Droopy, and I remember sitting in the barn with him on a cold winter’s night, knowing he loved me unconditionally.

Over the years I learned to love myself through the love I lavished on my children and now my four precious grandchildren.  Loving yourself can be as simple as a hot bath, a walk in nature or journaling. 

This new year I encourage you to find time for self love and remember you are loved!  If I can help you in this journey to self love or finding the word or phrase that you can grasp in 2023 when life becomes too hard, please reach out to me.

 All my love and here’s to a happy, healthy and loving 2023!

Diana