The only way to know that is by tapping into your inner body and your inner knowing…it’s awesome that you are doing this.

I used to be someone who thought ALL my time “should” be productive time. If I wasn’t producing, I wasn’t doing enough. I still had free time…but I tended to feel like when my day was done, I had left too much undone. I kept focusing on what I didn’t do instead of what I did do. And what I did do was already more than the average human being (which had been pointed out to me by colleagues at work).

So some of this giving myself time was actually starting to find out what it’s like to be “average.” Instead of trying to be superwoman all the time.

Finding the balance can feel “hard” when you are used to pushing yourself at an unrealistic pace, feeling like that’s normal.

What I love about your comment, Emily, is that it feels like you are nurturing yourself with nourishing activiities that soothe your soul…and you are doing it through awareness of what you really want. Bravo!!!!

Love,
Heather

The beautiful part is that this giving is a practice. It may come quickly or take time, but the more you practice, the more your body understands the energy of self-soothing, self-nurturing…that you are WORTHY. That you MATTER.

With love,
Heather

What an appropriate post for me to stumble across right now and realize I have been moving in parallel with you. I, too, have been giving myself more time to do what I truly enjoy. Although, in my case, I didn’t take away so much from highly productive time as I shifted unproductive, procrastination time into time for things I love. I have been spending more time reading, I have been going on beautiful hikes every Sunday, and, on days I didn’t feel like it, I have been skipping my running and substituting it instead for something more low-key, like a walk with my husband or a friend. How nice is it not to do things out of compulsion! I also have been spending less time on the computer, and, much as I love my email and blog interactions with my friends, it can be so liberating to take some time away from the screen and focus on really living life instead!

thinking of you, Heather, now and always!

with love,

~Emily

I relate very strongly to the “never enough” emotion that I experience and act out through bingeing/restricting. Since my “never enough” substance isn’t time, however, you have helped me consider what it is I really do want in my life and what I have denied myself because of feeling so unworthy.

Thanks for sharing your journey and helping me gain insight on my own!

With love,
Heather

Thank you for still continuing to be such great spiritual inspiration. Through your healing, I still feel hope.