Comments on: SELF WORTH, what the hell does that really mean?

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:33:20 +0000

Thanks for the fable and the insightful ’solutions’ you offer for your audience to consider. Very helpful. Very timely.

By: rikki

rikki — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:48:52 +0000

What an inspiring fable. I once had “the love of my life” constantly trying to blame me for all the pain she felt. Amazing how she would yell, insult and blame me while telling me I was a negative person! Fact was, the more I became peaceful and let go of the drama, the more upset she got at me – accusing me of harboring resentment and not having the courage to face it. It is funny to think of it now, but at the time I was at a loss since I knew she was projecting her own pain onto me and there was nothing I could do but love and accept her in those moments. Meanwhile I watched the relationship deteriorate in her own eyes and mind. Looking back, I am thankful that she left, since I realized I was getting caught in the trap of self-abuse through the hands of someone else. As painful as it was at the time, I am so thankful, since her suffering deepended the compassion inside of me. Now I am with a wonderful and stable woman, full of compassion, wisdom, insight and understands what it means to be responsible for our feelings and experiences.

By: Marnice

Marnice — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:36:12 +0000

I loved the fable. What a reminder of how others seek to pull us down thru critcism or comments believing it’s for our own good; to be aware of their thinking – no matter how flawed. My hairdresser calls it “crabs in a pot” syndrome where others make sure you don’t get “higher” than them.

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:27:12 +0000

Last night, standing at the termination of the path of light that the Full Moon cast across the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, I released to Her tender care, all that I had accepted as my reality, and been and done in the past year.
I released it, not in anger at the way “I” had allowed it to turn me from my Path, but as fertile manure… a rich source of Energy that Divinity would take and remold into something new and wonderous!
Nothing is ever wasted, you know, all serves its purpose and is then dissolved and reformed, like the butterfly within its cocoon!
I too, have struggled with “standing in my own Power” for a long time, and never was it as apparent as it became this past year! I left a long time business, took a loan and openned another, because I thought that was what I was “supposed” to do next! Business was always so diffucult for me! I could never find the items that expressed the creativity I craved. Maybe moving from the internet to this brick and mortar would be what I needed! Actualy, I had sold ALOT of inventory (their creativity!), for others over the years but I was never richly rewarded for my efforts. How many times had I been told, “You should be selling your own items! You are so creative! You should be selling “You”!” But I never did… I had a great number of excuses, which I will not mention here. I am sure you need only listen for three minutes to your own inner dialog to know what they are! This resulted in years of struggle and culminated in the past years’ worth of lessons, presenting themselves in the form of people and circumstances, that ultimately led me to a crucial decision that I needed to follow my own heart, make my own decisions (and products!), honor and respect my-self, my creativity, my gifts, and stand firmly and resolutely on my own two, perfectly good feet, in my own Power!
This I made a conscious decision to do. And performed an act of ritual last night, to accept the Crown of my own Creativity which I will never reliquish again!