When the noise stops and the distractions have ceased, what are you running from? What are you terrified of? Intimacy? Loneliness? Being seen? What is it that keeps you in a loop of this and that and the other? And do you have the courage to say enough and stop? Just stop for a moment and be, really BE with yourself?

Yes I know people talk about this all time, but what does it really mean? For me being with ourselves meaning making best friends with ourselves, loving who we are, who we may have become, what we look like, how we smell, how we dance, how we move, how we sleep, how we shower, how we orgasm, how we are in every facet of our lives. Can we love unconditionally every facet of who we are? 

Not to say we are not always seeking to better who we are, this is to say that the betterment comes out of sense of celebration and wanting to be the finest example of our shining soul essence. Not because we are filled with loathing at some level.

Can you love yourself the way you love your Beloved? And if you have never known such a love, then think back to times when you may have briefly experienced this. Your first dear friend, your first love, a pet you loved, children you may have given birth to, held in your arms, your family. Somewhere in your history there shall be a moment, however brief perhaps where you have felt what it feels like to experience unconditional love for another. Love that sees what may need a little improvement, but does so with a smile and regardless you love. Think back to this moment and the freedom that came with such love. 

That is all we are ever asked to apply to our selves. And if we can do that we shall have surmounted one of the biggest obstacles to an empowered and healthy life.

If we can stop running from ourselves we can start to find those missing pieces that propel us to keep running and chasing. There is nothing outside of ourselves that shall complete us.