Do You Want to Live Your Life Wholeheartedly?
Do You Believe You’re Worthy of Love and Belonging?
Hi everyone, I’m back. What a whirlwind it is to serve as Executor of someone’s estate! The time-consuming tasks get performed for one major responsibility, and then a waiting period before the next major responsibility can be tackled, etc... My sister-in-law’s house has sold. Now, I hope to accomplish the last major responsibility of paying her income tax. The required trips to the state where she lived are over.
But that’s enough about that. It’s now 2026. Have you ever tackled making New Year’s Resolutions? One of mine this year is to return to blogging regularly.
I love Brené Brown’s work. What she has discovered through many years of research about how to live Wholeheartedly is spot-on! She has written numerous books, six of which are on the NY Times Best Seller list (I believe 6 is correct). One of her first books is still one of my favorites, because she created this wonderful list called “10 Guideposts for Wholehearted Living.” A few years ago, I made it a practice to take one of the guideposts at a time, and reflect on each in turn for a month before I would move to the next. The reflections that came to me from doing that practice, have had/continue to have a positive effect on my life. Why would I go to all that trouble? Because I want to live Wholeheartedly.
In the Preface to her book, “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, she wrote this statement: “How much we know and understand ourselves is critically important, but there is something that is even more essential to living a Wholehearted life: loving ourselves.”
It seems that there is something about being human that creates not only the wonderful responses to happy events that happen to us, but that also can create inner turmoil, hurt, anger, shame to the traumatic or abusive events. Which can lead to a warped impression of who we are: not worthy of love and belonging. As long as we are shame-based, we are not capable of living a Wholehearted Life. Brené’s “10 Guideposts for Wholehearted Living” contain a whole universe of thought-provoking insights that can lead us on the awesome path toward healing from spiritual abuse and growing closer to being Wholehearted. A state of being in which we can truly begin to see how to love ourselves. Because we are worthy of love and belonging.
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