This one is easy...my hands.
They allow me to create in so many ways. Cooking, knitting, sewing, writing, scrapbooking, photography.
The allow me to play with my girls. Games, puzzles, blocks, face painting.
I can make music with them and show my anger with them.
I can show my love and when I'm tired with them.
I can soothe a scrape and cut some hair.
I can paint toes and repair Radar.
Best of all, I can hold on to my family with them.
My dear friend Korin has been doing the 30 Days of Truth and I'm following her lead...just a few days later.
How fitting that this is the first topic since so many women and haunted by low self-esteem. I'm not immune to it and when I found out I was having three girls, I made the decision to do everything in my power to keep self-loathing out of their lives. The most difficult part of that is to build my own self esteem.
I could present you with a list of 5/10/15/20 things I hate about myself. But that's not only unproductive but not the topic. One thing. Hmmm...
I hate that I feel the need to be all powerful. I know this, I know that. Need something done? No problem. Want something? Want to help? No, I've got it. At the end of the day I have no time or energy or desire to spend on myself.
I am working on this. I've started going to a class on Tuesday night, I get manicures again, I'm asking for help and saying no when I need to.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 1:43AM