Today’s meditation was ten minutes long, and was focused on the affirmation that is printed on the card included in this post. The thing about negative self narratives is that you live with them for so long that they become reality in your mind. We truly are our own worst critic most of the time, and some take that a lot further than others, until it reaches unhealthy levels and beyond.

I worked very hard to turn this tendency around in my self, but I still struggle with it on a daily basis. It can be extremely difficult to remember to treat myself with the the same kindness that I treat others.

Today’s draw is the Ten of Wands, which is traditionally a representation of overwhelm, overburdening, and other themes to do with either taking on too much or having too much thrust upon you.

Although this card is usually about burden and overwhelm, burnouts and pushing ourselves too hard, what we see here in the depiction in this specific deck is that there comes a time when you need to rebirth yourself out of those times of burden as well. Just as we must eventually emerge out of burnout to breathe easily once again.

DECK USED:  BEARDED JOURNEY TAROT

Instead of pushing myself to finish a few blog posts from earlier in the week, I gave myself a break and deleted them.