レイチェル・ブレイセンのインスタグラム(yoga_girl) - 7月5日 22時47分

Taking care of my inner child (this badass kid enjoying the hell out of life in 1990!) looks a little bit different every day. I’m trying to meet my own needs with the same attentive presence I give my daughter - a radical practice for someone who has spent most of her life confused, thinking everyone else’s needs are more important than her own. I know many of you relate. ⁣⁣
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I always thought that as long as I give Lea Luna 100%, she won’t grow up with those same limiting ideas and beliefs. She will have her needs met in every way, so she won’t have to grow up into the messy, slightly neurotic control freak that is her mother. But... I have realized that it doesn’t matter how much love and presence and emotional support I give her if I’m unable to do the same (or more!) for myself. She is learning womanhood through me. Not from what I tell her, but from what I tell myself. How I take up space in this world. She looks at and listens to and feels (feels!) how I treat myself, every day. Seeing me exhaust myself for other people, she will grow up thinking that’s the way to be. The subtle dynamics of how I relate to others, the boundaries I set or that I have crossed, the self care I practice or miss out on, I’m modeling for her. I’m showing her through everything I give and everything I receive how to exist in this world. And I get it now. It’s IMPERATIVE that I take care of myself - unapologetically! - because it doesn’t just make or break my entire life (as if that isn’t important enough!); it teaches her how to be.⁣⁣
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And what I want for her is knowing she belongs. That wherever she goes, she is home. I want her to feel that same sense of unwavering connection to herself, to her place in this world, that took me 31 long years to find. But I don’t want her to have to wait. I want her to hold on to her inner child and not let go.⁣⁣
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So I’m here. Choosing myself, every day. For my daughter. For the little girl I was then. For the woman I am now. ⁣
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For me.

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