Yesterday I had you all do the I am Enough challenge. (you can do this anytime)
Let me tell you first of all.
I am beyond overwhelmed by the result.
Like blown away overwhelmed.
Like I cried a dozen times yesterday with joy and gratitude and awe overwhelmed.
Like I couldn’t stop looking at my Facebook page or at instagram at all of you inspiring, beautiful, brave, courageous, wonderful , and simply amazing women.
Do you know how many of you went out of your comfort zone yesterday to take that picture? It’s crazy. Nuts. Amazing.
So today. Today we’re going to do that again. We’re going to learn
It won’t be hard.
It’s one question that you need to answer.
Only one.
It’s this.
Tell me one thing that you love about you.
Just one thing. It could be that you make the best gluten free chocolate chip cookies in the world that don’t fall apart when you pick them up (and then you’ll quickly be a guest at my house). It could be that you love your eyes (that counts). It could be that you love that you and your kids have a secret song that you sing. It could be that you love to sing and sometimes you wish you could just sing more.
One thing.
Sometimes it’s easy to dismiss our awesome. To overlook our gifts (And yes making amazing cookies is a gift). To discount what we do with it’s not big deal, it was easy, oh it was nothing. Let’s not do that.
[Tweet “Let’s be proud of each other. And, in fact, let’s celebrate what we do.”]
What if you messaged a friend of yours and told her not only is she enough but also told her one thing you loved about her? And then she messaged a friend? And then on and on. It would be like a modern day viral chain letter.
That stuff changes the world, my friends.
So that’s your challenge.
Tell me one thing you love about you. Or you write it down. Or take a picture of that and put it on my wall with the hashtag #findingjoy And then tell a friend. Tell her out of the blue one thing you love about her.
Trust me, this isn’t a small thing. We’re becoming stronger, more powerful, and more beautiful because we can rest in not only knowing that we’re enough, but that we’re going to live a life of joy.
I’m so glad you’re walking this journey with me.
~Rachel
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It was harder than expected to settle on just one thing, but I love that I can look at the big picture, see the end in mind, and organize it so it all fits together!
I love my smile.
Yes, Doing that photo was way ‘out of my comfort zone’. It felt so vain (and so awkward – trying to hold a piece of paper whilst juggling with my tab at the same time, trying to make everything fit on the photo). Plus writing those words out and seeing them stare back at me – well I didn’t really believe what I wrote.
It’s surprised me just how much I’ve thought about it since – especially at times when I’ve felt I’ve failed and messed up. Because if God loves me unconditionally – I have all the approval I need. With Him on my side – everything is going to be okay. I don’t need to change – this is who I am and I don’t need to be somebody else in order to become ‘enough’.
I’m still thinking about the second challenge…I’m finding it quite hard to think of something for myself, so I’m going to do the second half of the challenge first and message a friend.
All that to say, I’m enjoying these challenges 🙂
Susan
I cry as I say this … “I am enough! ” Because most of my life, I’ve never felt that way. );
I love my arms.
I love the fact that at 45 I am one of the most fit women in my metabolic effect class at the gym! I can do burpees like no other!
I love that I can see my children for the individuals that they are, and I give them space to be themselves.
I was inspired by the idea of being part of a change. So to everyone I love, most of whom I have on facebook, I posted a comment to their wall one thing that I love about them. Is was fun, and easy and amazing, and I wanted to thank you for giving me the idea.
I love that every day I try to be a better mom and person. Some days I accomplish this and most days I fall short, but I always try!
I love that I can quilt, and teach people how to quilt. I am very grateful that my mom (now dead from early onset Alzheimers) taught me to sew before I went to kindergarden (I taught her to quilt!).
As a single parent, I struggle with “being enough” for my daughter. However, I cherish and love the relationship we have, and that through it all, we are finding our way on this journey together.
Like Andrea, I am a single parent and being enough is an endless struggle. And I was raised by a mom who erroneously thought she was teaching me whenever she pointed out the myriad of ways I could do something better or differently. So “not enough” is ingrained in my DNA.
But I love that I am empathic to others.
I love that I am finding better ways to parent and to relate with my daughter and other people in my life, even when I forget to use them or use them badly. And I love that even though I still struggle with them, my daughter doesn’t, which means I am doing a great job.
I love that despite it all, I go to bed thinking the next day can be better. I love that I have hope, that I really and truly believe things can get better and that I have the power to make them better!
I am awesome at caring about others. I sometimes feel like I care too much it becomes overwhelming to process everyones emotions but I wouldn’t be any other way.