Rinse & Repeat (day 19 blogging with Effy Wild)

(Really day 17 for me, but who's counting.  Wait.....IS someone counting? O_o)
Yes, my humor is an acquired taste, but I digress, again.  I did miss blogging over the weekend.  I was doing airbrush tattoo demonstrations on Saturday at my artist cooperative, and spending much needed time with my daughters that evening for my oldest daughter's birthday.  I'm not going to try to say I didn't have the time, but I didn't have the energy. And that's ok.
I was overwhelmingly grateful for all the responses to my last post on "Take a deep breath, and forgive yourself everything"!  It really resonated.
And most of us forget! We forget to offer ourselves that forgiveness on a regular basis.  We drop back into our old habits and before we know we are buried deep in that pile of yuck.  Hey, you can forgive yourself for that too.  
What I've discovered is that I have to take that breath and forgive myself many times a day.
We are such goal oriented, linear thinking creatures, that we think once we've learned something, we've reached our goal and that's it! We should be happy, at peace, whatever.  The truth is, life isn't really linear. It's a cycle.  Things are going to come back around and you are going to need to deal with them again and again and again.  It feels like that forgiveness didn't really work, because I keep ending up back here.  It did work. But you have to keep doing it. It has to become a habit and practiced every day.
I call that "Rinse & Repeat​".
I'm considering developing and offering that practice to a membership.  I find it helps to have support and for me, accountability. But that is another post.
.....with compassion
~deb♥

(above is from my first art showing almost 5 years ago)