Why the Person at the Top of Your List Should Be YOU
When I became a mom for the first time, I did exactly what I was expected to do: give my entire self to this tiny human. That is what unconditional love is all about, isn’t it? Fast forward a year and I had become a miserable, depleted, angry version of myself, forcing love from a place of bitterness and resentment, instead of the authenticity and heart I had intended. In the process of denying myself in order to give everything to my new daughter, I had shifted from “I get to love my baby” and turned it into “I have to love my baby”. The want became a should. I had completely forgotten the most important thing about loving another …