Best Life Advice I’ve Received (So Far)…

This is among some the greatest life advice I’ve ever received: To embody what I seek. I first learned of this concept in dating. If I wanted to date someone who had X, Y, Z — whatever qualities I was seeking — then I also needed to embody those traits.

It’s been an empowering approach as the more I’ve embodied what I initially sought externally, I’ve ended up filling my own needs. I no longer outsource my happiness or worth. As a recovering addict, this has been a powerful shift as for most of my life I looked outside of myself to fill the hole inside. I’d seek out drugs, booze, food, shopping, relationships/sex — never feeling satisfied. Once I shifted my focus to becoming what I sought, slowly but surely I began to tend to myself and my own life like a garden, allowing myself to blossom.

~Amy Frank

Meme/Quote by Victoria Erickson