#loveoverfear

The Greatest Gift-

The ability to love ourselves and others free from conditions, stipulations or judgement.

To love without fear.

To love wholeheartedly regardless of possible outcome.

Love is the source of truth, our true north and hearts compass.

Love is the greatest gift that you can give yourself and extend to others.

It is through love that endless possibilities and true freedom can be found.

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The above is often easier said than done, as we have been brought up to place conditions on nearly every aspect of our lives. 

I have a tendency to work myself into the ground.

I pile so much onto myself that it can feel overwhelming.

I have never been good at allowing myself to notice when I’m overwhelmed, when everything has simply become too much.

I want to do everything but after working myself until I’m exhausted I end up not being able to do half of the things I planned on doing.

I am a workaholic, I always have this need to be busy, doing something, having something to show at the end of my day.

This working until you collapse, working until you are so tired you fall asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow is not okay.

Since school has started I have pushed myself constantly until I’m doing basically homework all day and nothing else just trying to keep up.

But, I can’t do school and nothing else or I will undoubtedly crash. 

I keep feeling this need to not get behind, stay on top of things and the stress of it all is already getting to me and this is just the beginning of the semester. 

I have to give myself space to breathe.

To live my life not just live for school; that isn’t everything.

I have never been good at managing stress but we all deserve the space to not over work ourselves.

Taking an hour break won’t be the end of the world. Taking any break won’t be. Giving yourself a day off will only benefit you rather then hinder and you need that.

To stay sane and continue to be a functioning human.

I need to approach all of this differently for my well being or I won’t last the semester.

If this is something you do, try to be gentle with yourself. You are only human after all, you need breaks. Everything will still be there a few hours from now so rest if that’s what you need.