Beloved
There couldn't be a truer word about you.
Beloved is to be be dearly loved.
If I had to choose what I wanted to tell you about what I think captures your existence- there isn't any better way to describe it than beloved. The unfortunate piece about living in painful relationships, suffering from developmental trauma, or battling depression or anxiety is the incredibly self-defeating and self-rejecting voices that get stuck to these harmful experiences. Hurt and pain, even when caused by another person's actions, often transform into shameful feelings which undermine any belief of being beloved. Feeling not good enough erodes at the true value and worth of who you are.
My desire, along with my entire incredible team of therapists, is to work to help restore your sense of beloved-ness, of goodness, of certainty in this one powerful idea— that you, my darling, are beloved.
So, we'll be camping out together with this idea for awhile! The wonderful thing about the process of beginning to really feel, to internalize, to own your belovedness, is that then you get to gift this to everyone around you. And what we so badly need in our world right now is a restoration of goodness, and connection to each other regardless of who your neighbor is, where they come from, or what they believe. My team and I will be communicating more to you about your belovedness, and how, as a community we are beloved! Together, we will make new meanings about who we are.
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"The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection."
— Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved