<aside> 💡 "I not only found affirmations to be a tremendous energy boost—a way to kick off the day by my accentuating the positive—I also found it useful to repeat them during the day if I felt particularly stressed or was falling into the abyss of negative thinking. Affirmations helped restore my emotional equilibrium." —bell hooks

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• I am a pillar of truth and insight. I trust others in their capacity to cope with reality.
• My value and worth is in simply being, not in doing.
• I am capable of imaging new futures and processes, and leading others there.
• My stories, and my life, are worth sharing. They can help others in their journey.
• I include previous versions of me as I grow into new life phases. I have patience, love, and grace for others in earlier phases of progress, because I remember I was once in their phase too.
• I have feelings and interests that deserve to be heard. I do not have to downplay their importance or rush through their expression when I choose to share them.
• I understand myself and can help others understand themselves better too.
• I trust and value my inner voice. I do not need to explain or convince the truth of my inner voice to others, and I do not need to critique or worry about what theirs says. There is space for both.
• The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
• I know that any real understanding of life, faith, and certainty also includes room for holding tension, mystery, uncertainty, and death.