Take a Breath (day 16 blogging with Effy Wild)

For a long time now, my mantra has been: 
​Take a deep breath, and forgive yourself everything.
I'm not even sure where I found the image, but it still really resonates with me.
Now this doesn't mean forgiveness for some big mistake in your past (although that needs to be included).  To me, it means forgive yourself for all the things you think you are falling short in, or even for the thought thinking that you ARE falling short.  Forgive yourself for all those things you beat yourself up about all day long.  Because guess what?  Beating yourself up doesn't help.  All it does is keep you stuck.  Stuck in feeling like someone who deserves to be beaten up.  Would you do that to your friend!  Never! But you are your BEST friend and you treat you like SHIT!
Just like forgiveness for someone who wronged you is about freeing yourself, so is this.  You are doing it for you, so you can let go and move forward.  
So take a deep breath in.........
breathe in forgiveness.....
and blow out all the shit.  Let it all go.
ALL of it! You don't have to hold onto one single thing.  All you have to do is just be.
That's it. Be.