Giving yourself permission

I recently heard author and life coach trainer Nancy Levin speak. She asked the audience this question:

Will you give yourself permission to consider your needs at least as much as others?

How many times do you minimize your needs for “ease” or because you consider sacrifice to be honorable? Or maybe it goes even deeper than that. 

Maybe you don’t consider your needs as valuable as the needs of your partner, your children, your parents, your siblings, your friends.

It’s not about never considering the needs of others. I’m not asking you to lessen your compassion. I’m asking you to consider what it would be like to have more compassion for yourself.

Will you give yourself permission to consider your needs more than you do those of others?

And would it feel odd and selfish if you considered your needs first?

Whose light shines more? Someone who is tired and worn, putting everyone above herself – or someone who owns her needs and illuminates from the inside out, magnetic to those who cross her path?

You are valuable. You are worth it. Be a magnetic example to the tired, to the worn.