Celebrating Me

February 2nd 2021

Birthdays as an adult has always been such an elusive thing for me. I’ve always understood celebrating the kids birthdays because my own childhood was filled with great memories there, but as an adult it always felt like something was off about celebrating myself. In typical fashion, I would say I didn’t want to be celebrated, I didn’t want to do anything specific, I’d allow others to take me out for food and conversation but rarely did it ever strike me as something I really celebrated for myself.

Just now at age 33 am I starting to understand what it really means to me to celebrate the day I was born. As a society we gather all of our favorite people and are showered by love, attention, and gifts with good times, excitement for another year in the books, and sure enough each celebration tends to bring a little release (some tears or letting go of things).

The more I’ve lived on this earth, the more I’ve realized I am not a typical societal person at all. Those typical things don’t resonate with me in how I celebrate myself at all! On a typical day when I am really nurturing myself, I am taking time out to listen to my heart. I’m reflecting back on what brought me to this point and sending out gratitude for all those who helped me on this path. Taking care of myself looks like studying who I am and who I am showing up as with those love. Celebrating myself is very much an internal process instead of an external one.

There is something beautiful about really recognizing who you are as an individual and how you feel called to celebrate yourself. We each have beautiful unique ways in which that shows up in our lives and honoring that ourselves is something we always have a choice to do.

Today I plan to take the time to connect with who I am, reflect on who I have been, and be grateful for what brought me here and what I have in my life. I plan on nurturing myself in ways that bring me great energy and staying open to information that wants to come in. I plan on celebrating myself in a way that resonates with me.