Weekly Affirmation – Self-Compassion

It's Friday. Pause for a breath you didn't know you were holding. Exhale.

This week's Soft Landings affirmation is for the woman who keeps mistaking her patterns for her personality. For every midlife woman who's been fighting the thing she does instead of getting curious about why she does it.

Today's Affirmation: "My patterns kept me safe. I get to thank them and want something different."

The thing you keep doing – the overfunctioning, the over-explaining, the keeping yourself small, the white-knuckling your independence, whatever yours is – it wasn't a mistake. It was a solution. A really smart one, for circumstances that once required exactly that response.

It kept you safe. It kept you steady. It did its job.

The problem isn't that you're broken. The problem is that the pattern is still running the same programme for a situation that no longer exists. Like a smoke alarm going off because you forgot your bagel in the toaster.

So today, instead of fighting it or shaming it or trying to think your way out of it – what if you just said thank you? Thank you for protecting me when I needed protecting. I'm okay now. You can rest.

You don't have to dismantle a pattern to be free of it. Sometimes you just need to stop treating it like an enemy and start treating it like a part of you that was doing its best with what it had.

That's not giving up. That's actually where the shift begins.

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riday Breath And Reset

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Hi, it's Friday and it's our time, yours and mine, to pause for that breath. We both didn't know we're holding. Exhale because it's been another motherfucking week. So today's affirmation, today's self landing is for you and me who keep mistaking patterns, the thing we keep on doing for our personality when it's not. So today's affirmation is I want us to be grateful for the things we did because at the time it was the best we could do. Okay, I want you to really let this sink. So today's affirmation, my patterns kept me safe. I get to thank them and want something different. My patterns kept me safe. I get to thank them and want something different. Right? Like here's what I don't know, nobody told you about that thing you keep doing. The overfunctioning, the over-explaining, the keeping yourself small, the white knuckling your independence. Like whatever yours is, it wasn't it wasn't a mistake. Right? It was a solution, it was the best thing you could do at that moment. It was a really smart solution. Or the best I mean the best you could at the time once. For circumstances that required that response of you. And it kept you safe, it kept you steady, it worked, it did his job. The problem isn't that you're broken or you're dumb and stupid or whatever. The problem is that the pattern is still running the same program for the situation for you that no longer exists. It's like, I don't know, the smoke alarm going off because you forgot your bacon and a toaster, and yes, that did happen. So today, instead of fighting it or shaving it or trying to think your way out of it, what if you just said thank you? Thank you for the things you did, thank you for protecting me when I needed protecting. I'm okay now, I can rest and I can choose something different. Right? You don't have to dismantle a pattern to be free of it. Sometimes you just need to stop treating it like, I don't know, like a mistake, like an enemy, and start treating it like a part of you that was doing its best with what it had at the time. And that's that's not giving up. That's actually where the shift and the org begins. So let's take this energy into the weekend. We'll be back with a new soft landing every Friday. Save. Share it with somebody who needs to hear this message too. And if you're craving a softer life with a sprinkle of midlife fury, and what the fuck are we doing in this collective shit show? Subscribe to my to Soft, my monthly newsletter. I share reflections, small insights, things I like. The occasional funny meme, or at least I think it's funny. So, like, we're not doing pressure, we're not doing productivity tape, we're not doing any kind of white knuckling, this is a silver bullet to whatever. Just something you can open when you want a little more space. So, I'm excited to see you back on a sceney ground. Take care.