We love Oakland and the shop indie mentality. We had awesome sales this weekend and here are some of our vintage treasures that found good homes this weekend.
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I am sure you are wondering what does self-compassion have to do with vintage or fashion? I think it has plenty to do with one another because fashion is linked to self esteem and how people look at you. We all want to be an individual, we all want to be special and we all want to be loved. We live in a world where there is so much insecurity, anxiety and depression because of self judgement so how do we be kind to ourselves??? Well that is called SELF COMPASSION. I struggle with all of the above emotions and thought this would be a great topic to touch on especially because the holidays are upon us. All types of emotions are floating around in the world right now and I want to separate what is mine from others and stay clean emotionally and not have destructive patterns of isolation, fear and negativity. What is self-compassion? Self compassion means being sweet and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail and feel inadequate rather then being self critical and mean. I am soft and understanding to others but I want to evoke that for myself. My inner critic is cruel and I want to learn self-compassion because I believe it is the foundation to emotional healing and emotional freedom. Self-compassion is a great idea but I know that I have a long journey of unlearning many years of self loathing. My journey will be long and of course hard at times but I will now practice self-compassion when the journey gets hard and bumpy. I will comfort myself and show kindness. I will put the oxygen mask on myself first so that I can assist and be healthy enough to help others. "Each circumstance in our present-day life that triggers emotional pain is an opportunity to practice self-compassion and be with ourselves on a deep and intimate level. If we stay with this introspection, we uncover the core shame that lurks in the depths of each of us, giving us the opportunity to heal it." I am making a promise to myself to be kind. I will be mindful about my emotions and allow myself to have these emotions but I won't let them drown me and take over.
I am going to try and do 3 things for myself to build a path for my road to recovery. 1. I will give myself "HAPPY/SELF CARE" days...REGULARLY!!! 2. I will leave my comfort zone more often so that I can build with people the foundation of my support network. 3. I will exercise more often (within my comfort zone, of course)because it DOES make me feel good and makes me feel healthier because I am releasing emotional and physical toxins. 4. Last but not least, I will practice what I preach :0) Do you practice self-compassion? How do you stay kind to yourself? Thanks for listening :0) Here are a few things that happened this week. Halloween, outfit posts and nail polish were on my to-do list. How did you spend your days?
Btw...Art Party is coming up next week so I am a busy little bee. I will share some pics of how the party goes. Stay tuned. |