The responses I have received from my Run to Change Lives interview have truly been overwhelming and sincerely heartfelt. I have received many messages today on the subject of self-worth and how did I use my love of running to help me achieve it?
We are conditioned to feel less than. We have been taught to try harder, to “erase and try again,” to hesitate when we are given an opportunity to better ourselves, and that we are selfish when we put ourselves first.
The open road, and my running sneakers have given me back what other people, and certain concepts have tried to repetitively take from me… my self worth.
To make progress, allow yourself the wonderful endowment of self-acceptance. You have been given a gift. You were made for a purpose.
You are allowed to sit in both places of uncertainty, and places of great unrest .
You are allowed to sit in unsteady moments, and stand taller when you have rebuilt the foundation that once tried to crumble you.
The open road will listen, will push you, will be gentle some days and fierce the next– but it will guide you to regain your own love, life and trust back.
Whether it’s the park, the track, the mountains, the pavement, the bicycle, the pool, the yoga mat… take all your lack of’s and should be’s there.
Discard them one by one… and when they come back… let them visit but NEVER invite them to stay again as they no longer serve a purpose. Amen.
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