“You are your own best thing.” ― Toni Morrison

We often don’t see our own gifts, we usually don’t realise our own power. So it helps to employ the compassionate, honest eyes of friends or mentors – people we can trust to see the truth & show it to us. But, even then, to be told that we’re brilliant & amazing can, strangely, be a hard thing to hear. How easy is it, after all, to hold the gaze of someone who loves you for a long time? Most of us have a low threshold for such intimacy & adoration. And yet, if we can’t let love in, then life will never work out the way we want it to. But, with practice, we can begin to believe that we are indeed our own best thing.

Pic: the brilliant & amazing Clare Rosen photography.