09/01/2026
I looked for love in all the wrong places. Just wishing that anyone would think I was enough to stay. Any loser, really. Because I didn’t know my worth. Parental abandonment taught me I was worth nothing. And well that nearly killed me. So at 27 years old I got sober, went to therapy and started loving myself. That was a pivotal moment. Everything changed because I realized that I had to love myself. I had to care for myself. I had to cultivate my own happiness and health instead of self destruction. I learned that the love I was seeking had to come from me first. And how much I love myself is what I would tolerate from other people. And so began my healing journey. This is called reparenting the self. We love ourselves the way our parents should have loved us but didn’t.
You are worthy and deserving of love.
I am,too.
Heal.
Please share with someone this can help today.