When people tell you you’re beautiful, intelligent, or kind what’s your reaction? Do you cringe at the thought of those words describing you because you feel they’re not true? I am asking because that’s what I do when I get these compliments. I’ve been working on saying thank you instead of giving a backhanded response like: oh I am wearing make up, I’m actually not that smart even though I’m an engineer, or I’m just doing what anyone else would (probably my top three responses to each of those adjectives). I’ve realized that the reason I respond this way and I feel I’m not worthy of these compliments is because growing up I always felt compared to others as if I wasn’t good enough. Not pretty enough because my skin is dark or because I’m too thin. Not smart enough because I started out with pretty low grades on my report card and I was a terrible test taker. Not kind enough because if I was than perhaps that would be enough for people to like me since I lacked beauty and intellgence. – shukieyoga
Wow.
We’ve all been there, right? That deep, hollow feeling of “not enough”.
And then, the light of yoga. The gift of a practice that reminds us at all times that we are MORE than enough.
Thank you to our beautiful, kind, smart, and fantastically inspiring friend Farihah Begum Shukie for sharing those words, and her IG post with the hashtag #njyogacollective.
We are forever grateful for your honesty and the opportunity to open a conversation about acceptance, self-love, self-care, and connection.
Let’s keep it going!
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