Offer Yourself Love Enough to Heal Your Wounded Spaces


One of my favorite mantras, which I repeat to myself daily is “Gently, lovingly, I heal all of the deep dark wounded spaces inside of me. With great love I fill-up all of my empty spaces with light, peace and well-being.” I say it slowly and with great reverence. I choose to offer myself love and to allow that love to gently stir within me and to gradually wash me clean of all my inner-wounds; be they spiritual, mental, emotional or physical.

We have the power to heal all of the internal wounds that for too long have made us feel powerless over life. The healing process requires only one thing from us: That we be willing to help ourselves. Once we are willing, we can begin our healing journey by offering kindness and love to ourselves. By doing so, we finally make the life-affirming choice to treat ourselves with proper care and respect. Essentially we are making the necessary step toward choosing to value ourselves, and to believe that we are worthy of love and everything that is beautiful in life.

It’s nice to have support as we walk along our healing path. But all of the support in the world is valueless until we first choose to support ourselves. No one can rescue us from our self-loathing. We have to be willing to surrender it to our Higher Power and we have to be ready to lay it to rest—forever. This is how we begin the process of rescuing ourselves from ourselves. Once we make a loving commitment to supporting ourselves, we open the door to allowing other people to help us along our path to healthy, happy healing.

Today is your day to make the choice to love and support yourself. Affirm yourself with healing mantras. Allow yourself to feel your wounded spaces and allow yourself to soothe them with gentle love and kindness. Then allow others to offer you nourishing love. Feel the warmth of your inner-love as it is greeted by their outer-love. And relish the beauty of choosing to believe you are valuable enough to accept all the love there is available to you each and every day!

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