Blog Category: Belonging
Not Belonging and Loving Yourself Anyway
Groucho Marx said, “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member” . . . a poignant and funny thought while we’re discussing LOVING YOURSELF!
The “club” to which all of us belong is the human condition. All of us know its ups and downs. Let’s use Groucho’s witty remark to delve into how we can love ourselves in spite of . . . or maybe because of . . . our humanity.
What “clubs” have caused difficulty for you in the past? Can we embrace all the imperfections and faults that barred us from permanent membership in the “perfect club”?
What would you teach your children about how to handle feelings of not belonging? Might your feeling of not belonging have prevented you from joining the best club of all . . . the club of full self-acceptance?
Perhaps the path to truly belonging is LOVING YOURSELF! CELEBRATE YOURSELF TODAY!
Copyright 2009. E. B. Hutt Bush and Coaching for Results, Inc.