I learned to celebrate my wins and show compassion for myself in other times.

I spent most of my life in pain. I had lived much of my adolescent years in trauma. By the time i started to have my monthly menstral cycle, my emotions and hormones were all over the place and always with intense physical pain. I believed that I was unworthy of love or support and couldn't see the beauty in myself.

I learned this past year that it is very important to take care of myself first and give myself unconditional love and compassion. I learned how to be gentle with myself.

For years I didn't know how to show myself those things or where to begin.

I found Amy through IAPMD. 

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Through her sincere compassion and a fierce love that shows for all women, I started to feel her support and learned how to love myself and connect with parts of myself i had always avoided.

Amy honored my individual experiences, and showed me that I wasn't alone and that what I was experiencing is what many woman experience.

 

I learned to celebrate my wins and show compassion for myself in other times.

I've learned that my experiences are special and I protect them and surround them with grace. I remind myself of them and they show me how much I try every day and how much I succeed every day.

I help and reach out when I know its in my compacity. When I need to step back, I give myself love and grace. Amy brought so much knowledge and patience into our meetings that has helped me build a wonderful tool box to support myself.

Now when I feel I need to step back, I give myself space and acknowledge these feelings and show myself support.

Amy helped me learn and understand how to breathe and become grounded. That affirmations have helped me reframe how I perceive things.

 

I started to learn that everyone is human including me that I can and do make mistakes but it doesn't make me unworthy.

 

I have taken control of my health and well being and I couldn't have found and started this journey without Amy and her support, compassion and sincerity.