Mirror Mirror Reflector Of Truth

Mirror On The Wall

What makes us recoil and look away, having just seen every single flaw magnified a thousand times?

How come all we see is fat, ugly, worthless, a fake trying too hard?

We really do try and try, don’t we, but the mirror always seems to reflect back to us everything we see wrong with ourselves a bit like mirrors in changing rooms when we go to buy clothes.

We all know this place of wanting to avert our gaze. Its a never ending cycle of trying to feel love-able and worthy by telling the person we see in the mirror that they are love-able and worthy.

It can bring tears, anger, outrage, self-loathing or disgust, shame. You name it, the mirror will show it to you. And more often than not, it does. And so it gets harder and harder to look in the mirror…

And so we end up feeling anything but love-able or deserving or worthy.

Why is that?

It might seem like this is just plain obvious, this question Ive just posed. Like its so obvious that this piece isnt worth a second glance. Its just going to say more of the same, right? Its going to talk about affirmations and shadow work! Its going to suggest you keep saying, I love you, you are love-able! to the face staring back at you like youve done so many times before until you ended up in tears of frustration and self-loathing! Right?

Well, how about bearing with me, just for a short while? How about we walk together and talk a little?

And no, Im not going to suggest any of those things. Although, theres nothing wrong with those things at all. But just not today.

Just for today, lets come at it from a whole new direction. Lets talk about …

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