what would happen?
In February of 2011, I was having a day that invited me to question my worthiness, my enoughness. I was feeling stuck in an old story of not being able to hear the kindness of others because my own self-doubt was so loud.
This contrast pushed me to give myself a pep talk of sorts. I turned on my microphone and recorded the words I would say to you if you were sitting across from me at my kitchen table needing an invitation to see that you are enough. The words became a love note to myself, to you, and when I came across the recording again this past weekend, I transcribed it (with a few little edits) and felt moved to share these words with you today (you can hear the original recording by clicking on "what would happen" at the end of this post):
As you sit in your corner today, what would happen if you just believed that your story matters?
What would happen if you just owned all the phrases that you say to others, the way you sign your emails to the ones you love, the way you encourage your friends with all of their pursuits in their life, what would happen if you owned that same belief that you have for your friends for yourself?
What would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw the beauty that others see when they look at you?
What would happen if you gave yourself permission to let hope bloom inside you?
What would happen if you listened to yourself when you experienced joy, if you listened to why, if you noticed why the joy comes up inside you when it does?
What would happen if you let go of wishing you were someone else and walked to the mirror and met for the first time the real you whose waiting inside you?
What would happen if you believed the kind things people say and write about you?
What would happen if you took the next compliment someone gives you and believed it?
What would happen if you quit looking at the phrase “I am enough” and thinking “oh yeah one day I’ll believe that” and instead just took it as part of your personal truth?
What would happen if you believed the phrase I am enough was part of your personal truth?
What would happen if you walked to the mirror right now and looked at yourself and saw the beauty that those who love you see?
What would happen if you walked to the mirror and let go of looking at the person reflected back at you and thinking “oh I wish her hair looked…if only she was…if only she was…” and instead of thinking if only she was, if you looked at the person reflected back at you and saw who she is?
What would happen if the next time the little girl inside you who loves to play with paint and paper or fabric or color or her camera or words, what would happen if you listened to her and let her play?
What would happen if you stopped trying to be that person that you aren’t and don’t want to be?
What would happen if instead you just were yourself?
What would happen if you walked across the room, down the hall, and found that mirror and looked at the person reflected back at you and chose love?
What would happen if you believed people when they paid you a compliment?
What would happen if you said, “you’re welcome” when someone said, “thank you” instead of saying, “oh it was no big deal”?
What would happen if you walked down the hall and looked in the mirror and chose to see love and chose to use love when you looked at the person reflected back at you?
What would happen if you spoke to yourself as softly and calmly as you speak to those you love?
What would happen if you gave yourself the same space to just do the best you can that you give so many others?
What would happen if you walked down the hall and looked in the mirror and chose love when you looked at that reflection?
What would happen if you just believed that in this moment, in your corner, you are enough?
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Reader Comments (14)
magic would happen.
I am sitting in front of this screen with warm cocoa taking in your words.
This was just what I needed tonight. Seems I need to have a talk with my self. ;) Thanks :)
You just nailed it, Liz, today!
If I would walk down the hall and saw a person in the mirrow, I would tell her that even though today isn't the great day, she is enough and there is always tomorrow to start fresh.
THANK.YOU!
Stumbled on this post on Pinterest. It really resonated. Thank you so much for helping me express how I feel but didn't have the words to express!
THANK YOU :)
Thank you Liz for speaking to a part of me that didn't know how to say this out loud. I'm grateful for reading your words and glad we share in the same moments sometimes! All my love!
A couple of hours before reading your blog for today I wrote in my journal for the first time in almost two months. I wrote that I had an epiphany that I needed to accept my life and myself as I am today. I've read the words "I am enough" on your blog in the past and I've fallen in love with your jewelry with that saying on it. I ended my journal entry with those words and then I read your post a few hours later. It blows my mind the way the Universe works. Amazing Grace!! : )
~ Wendy
Hi Liz. I am sitting down catching up on the blogs I love.....your words pierced my soul tonight. I am so looking forward to this time together. I don't have a very good relationship with my mirror......what if I worked on that??
Thank you for your words. I needed them today. I was wandering through pintrest and found these words! What a treasure!
Hi Liz
I received your soulmantra necklace with I am ENough, and wore it close to my skin on the weekend. This morning in meditation I felt deeply that all is well, and I have enough and I do enough, as well. It begins to sink in. This is a wonderful exercise, and I hope y ou don't mind I will borrow some of these questions for my Creative Circle Journaling class, because we all, all of us women especially, need to know that we are enough.
Words can't express how this resonated with me Liz. Thank you.
I love what if questions. They open up the possibilities and allow the mind to open up full. Yours is a beautiful what if question and I will share it on my Damsels in Success pinterest board. Thank you xx
What if we were to meet one day?...
I love what if questions. They open up the possibilities and allow the mind to open up full. Yours is a beautiful what if question and I will share it on my Damsels in Success pinterest board. Thank you xx
What if we were to meet one day?...
Thank youuu! Your love note was encouraging and got me to write this post in my own blog http://stepbystepintherightdirection.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/self-worth/