Carrying Your Own Spear: Savage Self-love for the Broken.

[naamah_darling]

HUNT HARD
KILL SWIFTLY
WASTE NOTHING
OFFER NO APOLOGIES*

Most people couldn’t see self-love in those words if you paid them.  But for me, it’s there, because this is a bloody, fierce thing.  I have to aggressively go after what I need, take it, work it for everything it’s got, and never apologize for doing what I have to do.  I don’t usually succeed at

Comments

[cissa]

Thank you for this. Many days, just getting out of bed is a personal victory.

[peacockdress]

By God, this rang true, because this works just as well for heartbreak as for illness. [Stand by for brief rant - I have had to be very quiet and/or cryptic on my own LJ for months, since the perpetrators and all our mutual friends are right there.]

I am having a very difficult year, and finding it very hard to be hit with searing emotional pain and find a way through it. I am having to establish anew whether I am worth fighting for and why, and what I am worth, and what I should expect of others and myself, and this week's events have pulled the rug out from under me once again and taken me back to square one, just when I was finding my feet. I have indeed been learning to consider getting up, dressed and fed to be an achievement. I'm writing all sorts of new parameters. But you have given me a metaphor for moving forward that's very valuable. Thanks.