How To Forgive Yourself - Recipe

How to Forgive Yourself Recipe - Serves 1

Ingredients

• Lifetime of shame, sadness, sorrow
• Several tablespoons of mistakes and missteps, to taste
• Stress, anxiety
• Heartful of hope
• Generous measures of love and forgiveness
• Self-esteem, tenderness, and happiness, to taste

Instructions

1. Take a lifetime of shame, regret, sadness and sorrow
2. Add to a large mixing bowl and set aside for tomorrow
3. It will of course ferment, stew and stick to the sides of the pot
4. Let the memories fill your mind and mix with others you forgot
5. Mix in several tablespoons of mistakes and missteps, to taste
6. Add the stress and anxiety caused and experienced, post haste
7. Let it sit and rest
8. Detox and distress
9. Now add a heartful of hope
10. Until you feel you can cope
11. Then blend in generous measures of love and forgiveness

Serving Suggestion

• Serve with self-esteem, tenderness - welcome happiness
• Sit and dwell positively on how far you've come
• How you've survived and the person you've become
• Understand that the experiences you've had don't make you
• Appreciate that the experiences you've had, do shape you

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Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: So, yeah, wanted to do a recipe type thing...and this is what I came up with. Needed to do something nice after my latest Smooth Challenge entry. Also, the crappy people I am writing about for Nano lol. So, hope you enjoyed it!

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