Affirmations

I started going to a therapist about seven years ago. At the time, I was dating some guy who could treat me like a real jerk, struggling with my body imagine, working a job I was losing passion for, and having panic attacks about death. Growing up, I was discouraged to have or express any other feelings aside from happiness. Which was fine because I was a generally happy kid and young adult. However, what I realize now that I couldn't realize then, was that I wasn't being enabled to deal with my feelings when they weren't happiness. That inability has caused me great pain in my life. I still struggle with this, as I know many others do too.

Something that really stuck with me from my counseling sessions was an app my therapist made me download -- Affirmations. Every day it gives me a new affirmation, and I love it. It's so simple, yet sometimes, just like my pastor used to do with her sermons, it speaks right to me. Today's affirmation is, I always have a choice. Thank goodness for that!!!

This morning I choose to tell thank my body for its hard and dedicated work in keeping me alive, making me able. I apologized for neglecting it at times, or not appreciating it enough. Because as much as I want it to look so differently than it does right now, I'm still abundantly grateful for it. Today, I have a choice to love it, and to care for it, and I hope I will continue to make that same choice tomorrow, and the day  after, and the day after, and...

What are choices are you making today to fight apathy?